- "The instruments and song, the drama and the melodrama, the pathos and the tragedy. It's a lie. A fiction. And yet what happens on the stage speaks a kind of truth just the same."
- ―Gallius Rax, to Rae Sloane
An opera was a dramatic work set to music and including songs. The Bith culture notably produced operas,[2] and some Bith operas from the Middle Era of the Old Republic were highly regarded during the Age of the Empire.[3] Such works were performed in theaters called opera houses.[4] Attending operas was regarded as a cultured activity.[5]
During the last decades of the Galactic Republic, many politicians and other wealthy citizens of Coruscant often took in operatic performances at the Galaxies Opera House. Opera-goers of that time included Palpatine, Supreme Chancellor of the Republic and secretly a Dark Lord of the Sith,[6] Baron Rush Clovis, and Padmé Amidala.[7] After Palpatine revealed his true colors and reorganized the Republic into a dictatorial Galactic Empire, operas remained a common form of entertainment among the new government's elite. Imperial opera-goers included Vice Admiral Dodd Rancit of the Naval Intelligence Agency, and Kren Blista-Vanee of the Imperial Ruling Council.[4] Gallius Rax was a fan of opera and tried to cultivate a taste for it in Rae Sloane.[1] After her first term as queen of Naboo ended, Réillata went on to be a moderately successful opera singer before she was elected into office again in 28 BBY.[8]
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- Star Wars: Galactic Atlas
- Star Wars: Smuggler's Guide
- "The Noble and the Wild" — Star Wars - The Official Magazine 96
- "Coruscant" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- "Anakin Skywalker" — Star Wars Encyclopedia
- 7 of the Coolest Star Wars Nightspots on StarWars.com (backup link)
- Ubbla Mollbro in the Databank (backup link)