by Kristi | Oct 1, 2021
Dr. Kristi Brown-Montesano will guide LA Opera Board members through an exploration of music from the interwar period (1919—1939), an era that witnessed an astonishing variety of aesthetic and stylistic developments in western Classical music. Lectures will delve into... 
by Kristi | Oct 1, 2021
This Week’s Topic – How to Build an Opera: from Overture to Scene For this final session, we will look at the how Rossini and Wagner put their operas together—their distinct approaches to making Cenerentola and Tannhäuser musically coherent—from the... 
by Kristi | Oct 1, 2021
This Week’s Topic – Bel Canto “Dramedy”: Mixed Musical Styles in Cenerentola By the time he wrote Cenerentola, Rossini had already mastered a wildly successful comic style and had proven his skill at serious opera as well. For Cenerentola, Rossini mixed... 
by Kristi | Oct 1, 2021
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...