Musical theatre of Cuba

During the period of the 18^th century (at least) to the modern era, the well-known theatrical patterns used, and gave rise to, music and dance. Many popular composers and musicians had their careers launched in to the theatres, and several popular compositions got their first airing in the stage, also, in addition to staging of some European operas and operettas, Cuban singers gradually brought an idea that better suited their audience. Recorded operas and was to be the couduit for the Cuban music to reach the world. The most recorded artists on the Cuban up to 1925 was a composer at the Alhambra, Adolfo Colombo and his record show recorded about 350 numbers between 1906 to 1917.

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The first theatre in Havana opened in 1776, the first Cuban singer opera emerged in 1807, and the theatrical music was immensely important in the 19^th century and the first half of the 20^th century; its importance only started to decline with the change in the political and social weather in the second part of the 20^th century.