Classic opera began its historical course as a spectacle intended for royalties and for the aristocracy. However, as years went by and society slowly reformed, the opera exceeded the limits of the court spectacle, to become the property of more and more people. In the 19th century classic opera gained unexpected power and therefore a new role in European society. The new ideals that swept Europe like a storm facilitated the development of national music schools. The creation of nation-states presupposed common cultural origins. The comic opera of the 18th century had paved a path that Romanticism had made the most of. Adapted to the new circumstances, the subject matter left the world of Greco-Roman antiquity and turned to historical or contemporary themes.
In 1818 Munich, with a population of 54,000, acquired a new National Theater with 2,000 seats, the most modern European opera stage of the time. In other words, 4% of the population watched a classic opera show every night. In Italy, bourgeois went to the opera every day to meet and talk. Verdi used the event to indirectly spread patriotic ideas aimed at the liberation of Italian cities. In 1830, in Brussels, riots broke out inside the opera, which resulted in the independence of Belgium from the Netherlands. The classic opera was also chosen by Richard Wagner as a means of political and social awakening of the German people.
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