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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
This course offers the participant an overview of the lyric opera development in Europe and particularly in Italy. Lessons will focus on the most important Italian Authors and their production from the XVII to the XX century. The academic approach will be multidisciplinary due to the importance of the political, social, intellectual, and economical conditions of the different eras taken in exam. Some operas will be projected in full or in part with an introduction to the period and to the libretto so that the attendees will have the necessary cultural and historical background to follow them. Discussions in class will follow the projections.
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Mondays,Wednesdays, Thursdays / 7:00 – 8:30 pm (UTC +2 Italian time) / English
Mondays,Wednesdays, Thursdays / 5:00 – 6:30 pm (UTC +2 Italian time) / Italian - Contents
Opera I – from May 4th to May 15th
The origins of the opera – Gli Intermedi della Pellegrina (1589) – Claudio Monteverdi (1567 – 1643) from L’Orfeo (1607) to L’incoronazione di Poppea (1643) – Pietro Metastasio (1698 – 1782) and his heritage – La Serva Padrona (1733) by Giovan Battista Pergolesi (1710-1736) – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791): Le nozze di Figaro (1786), Don Giovanni (1787), Così fan tutte (1790).
Opera II – from May 18th to May 29th
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791) and his heritage in the XIX operas – Gioacchino Rossini (1792 – 1868) and his importance in XIX century – Vincenzo Bellini (1801 – 1835): La Sonnambula (1831) and Norma (1831) – Gaetano Donizzetti (1797 – 1848): L’elisir d’amore (1832) and Lucia di Lammermoor (1835) – Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901) from Il Nabucodonosor (1842) to Macbeth (1848).
Opera III – from June 1st to June 12th
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 – 1901): the so-called “Trilogia Popolare” Rigoletto (1851), Il Trovatore (1853), La Traviata (1853) – The last Verdi’s production: Otello (1887) and Falfstaff (1893) – Giacomo Puccini (1858 – 1924): Le Villi (1884) and Manon Lescaut (1893).
Opera IV – from June 15th to June 26th
The Verismo movement: Ruggero Leoncavallo (1857 – 1919).
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