MUSI 280 - Love, Honor, and Divided Allegiances: A Literary and Musical Study of Three Famous 19th-Century Operas

Semester Offered: Fall
0.5 unit(s)

This six-week course gives us the opportunity to listen to and study three 19th-century operas that deal with the problem of love, honor, and divided allegiances between the individual and the nation, or the individual and society. The three operas we study will be: Carmen (Bizet, in French), Aida (Verdi, in Italian), and Eugene Onegin (Tchaikovsky, in Russian). We study all the librettos in English translation. Michael Pisani.

Recommended: one course in Music or Drama.

Second six-week course.

Two 75-minute periods.

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