If you are wondering if there is any dialog in Hamilton before it is released in Disney+ July 3, the answer to that is a kind of. There are a couple of scenes that include dialogue as the “redcoat of Transition”, where the members of the set act as a redcoats and patriot spies between the songs “you’ll be Back” and “Right Hand” and the “Tomorrow there will be More of Us” in the scene, what happens when Hamilton learns that John Laurens is killed.
However, while many consider Hamilton a musical, it’s technically an opera because it does not use the dialog for the transition between the songs. Creator Lin-Manuel Miranda decided to forgo the traditional music route after working with a playwright because “it has been found that if you start with the opening of our number, you can’t go back to voice.” In the opera, singing almost never stops, and in Hamilton‘s case, the singing and rap is non-stop.
Of course, Hamilton it is not a traditional opera in any sense of the word. In fact, more of a hip-hopera that was influenced by Jay-Z “Friend or Foe”, with the purpose of Miranda to get the conversationalist tone of the right. At the end of the day, this means only that the show’s musical numbers to transition from one to the other without problems, and don’t miss out on a lot when you’re listening to the cast recording. And well, now you can tell your friends what your favorite opera is, after the sequence of Hamilton Disney+.
