Chamber opera
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Chamber opera is a designation for opera written to be performed with a chamber ensemble rather than a full orchestra.
The term and form were invented by Benjamin Britten in the 1940s, when the English Opera Group needed works that could easily be taken on tour and performed in a variety of small performance spaces. The Rape of Lucretia was the first example of the genre. Other composers, including Thomas Adès and Philip Glass, have since adopted the term for their own works.
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