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Comparison Between Die Walkure And Annie

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Die Walkure and Annie is what i’m going to be talking about, how one is a musical and how one is an opera. Die Walküre, WWV 86B, is a music drama in three acts by Richard Wagner. Annie is a musical, film released in 1982 by Thomas Meehan. Annie is a story of a red-haired girl who dreams of life outside her dreary orphanage. Annie was chosen to stay one week with the famous billionaire Daddy Warbucks.Annie is a broadway musical with music by Charles Strouse, lyrics by Martin Charnin, and the book by Thomas Meehan. Annie has singing in it but not a lot and has a little bit of dancing.Die Walküre, WWV 86B, is a music drama that has three acts by Richard Wagner. It's the second of the four works that form Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen,written

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