Free LAO Zoom Class / Musical Artist as Hero
This Week’s Topic – The Musical Artist as German Hero: Romanticism, Myth, and Wagner’s Tannhäuser This week we will delve into the two medieval stories that Wagner combined for his libretto: the knight-poet seeking redemption after succumbing to Venus’s...
Free LAO Zoom Class / Rossini & Wagner
This Week’s Topic – A Tale of Two Opera Composers We will explore the careers of Rossini and Wagner up to 1850 in the context of European opera cultures—French, German, and Italian—of that time. How did these two creative artists get their start in the...
Opera in the Classroom / LA Opera Connects
Note: due to COVID-19 precautions, this event will be presented as an online meeting. Opera in the Classroom and Arts Integration I particularly enjoy these events because I have the honor of teaching teachers! The LA Opera designed the Opera for Educators workshop...