It's stretching the conventional, technical definition of the term to call Swiss composer Michael Jarrell's spoken monodrama Cassandre an opera, but that's the composer's description of it, and as such, it ought to be respected. It does consist of a musical narrative accompanying a verbal narrative, so even though it doesn't involve singing, it comes closer to standard opera than some pieces that are so designated.
Dans ce roman parodique publié en 1860, Eduard Douwes Dekker dénonce, sous le pseudonyme de Multatuli, l'oppression exercée sur les Javanais par l'administration néerlandaise. …