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MUSC 131 – Introduction to Opera

Points:	20	Prerequisites:	None
Faculty:	FHSS - NZ School of Music	Corequisites:	None
School:	New Zealand School of Music	Restrictions:	None

For many of the greatest composers opera has been their ultimate goal and the pinnacle of their acheivement; but opera is often perceived as a very elite art form, requiring years of specialised training for its performers and high incomes and acquired tastes on the part of its audiences. In this introductory course, suitable for both performers and students with now previous experience in music, we examine the basis for such perceptions, while also moving beyond them to consider how opera remains such a moving medium for audiences around the world. In the class we will investigate how the basic terms of operatic communication - music and text, in collaboration with voice, body, staging - function in representative operas. We will also consider how the experience of opera is translated according to the medium - how the live experience of opera is reconfigured, via different filmic approaches, for audiences today.

This course is not currently being offered.