How to Listen to and Understand Opera

How to Listen to and Understand Opera « Series from 2023

Series from 2023

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For more than 400 years, opera has been one of the most popular performing arts. Professor Robert Greenberg can show you how you can learn to understand, appreciate, and even love opera in just 32 lectures.

With this course, you will understand how opera is a unique marriage of words and music in which the whole is far greater than its parts.

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Introduction and Words and Music, I

Introduction and Words and Music, II

A Brief History of Vocal Expression in Music, I

A Brief History of Vocal Expression in Music, II

Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, I

Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, II

Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, III

Invention of Opera and Monteverdi's Orfeo, IV

The Growth of Opera, the Development of Italian Opera Seria, and Mozart's Idomeneo, I

The Growth of Opera, the Development of Italian Opera Seria, and Mozart's Idomeneo, II

The Growth of Opera, the Development of Italian Opera Seria, and Mozart's Idomeneo, III

The Growth of Opera, the Development of Italian Opera Seria, and Mozart's Idomeneo, IV

The Rise of Opera Buffa and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, I

The Rise of Opera Buffa and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, II

The Rise of Opera Buffa and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, III

The Rise of Opera Buffa and Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, IV

The Bel Canto Style and Rossini's The Barber of Seville, I

The Bel Canto Style and Rossini's The Barber of Seville, II

Verdi and Otello, I

Verdi and Otello, II

Verdi and Otello, III

Verdi and Otello, IV

French Opera, I

French Opera, II

German Opera Comes of Age