The opera in its plot subject, music and choruses bears traces of the traditional "revolutionary" Chinese modern opera style.
The Jade Emperor sings in the Chinese opera style.
Initially there were 5 distinct opera styles.
For from eclecticism springs an opera style of his own, one willing to use anything available in order to reinforce stage pictures.
All in all, not an evening to hold up as a model of the French opera style.
Toscanini was not only a symphonic conductor, but he also knew Italian opera style.
Furthermore, the two criticized the story's "Mexican soap opera" style, noting that it drowned out the themes in "unengaging melodrama".
Sometimes all would sing with a French accent, sometimes opera style, sometimes with a falsetto voice and so on.
His first major positions were as conductor for the opera, and he was influential in the development of the Spanish national opera style, zarzuela.
He realized that there was not much demand for opera styles anymore.