Introduction to Opera - Schedule

Class will meet for 2 hours/week, in addition to 4-6 hrs listening time per week

Week 1	Musicology 101 (help from John Cooper). Discussion of modern forms and a composer's perspective with Henry Mollicone (artist in residence)
Week 2	Monteverdi's Orfeo et Eurydice or Purcell's Dido and Aeneas. Examination of Oratorio; Handel's Messiah?
Week 3	Mozart's Die Zauberflote, Don Giovanni and Le Nozze de Figaro
Week 4	Bizet's Carmen, Saint-Saen's Samson et Delilah, Offenbach's Les Contes des Hoffman
Week 5	Beethoven's Fidelio; Donizetti, Lucia d'Lammermoor, or L'Elisir d'amore; Rossini Il Barbiere di Siviglia, La Ceneretola, or Giullaume Tell
Week 6	Verdi's Rigoletto, La Traviata or Aida
Week 7	Puccini's La Boheme, Tosca, and Turandot
Week 8	Wagner; Die Walkure and Tannhauser
Week 9	Operetta; Die Fleidermaus, and Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance. 20th Century opera: Bartok's Bluebeard's Castle. Strauss's Electra or Salome. Weill's Threepenny opera.
Week 10	Bernstein's Candide and/or Westside Story (compare to Gounod's Romeo et Juliet). Broadway. Previn's A Street Car Named Desire. Perhaps The Great Gatsby.