57-740 Opera Literature

6 units, Carnegie Mellon University

Abundant and multifarious over centuries, opera remains one of the most expansive genres and unruly concepts in the performing arts. Knowledge of the repertoires contours is essential to any artist, as are the skills to approach any work as a musical and dramatic text. The courses aim is to familiarize students with representative works through the skills of stylistic and dramaturgical analysis. At the same time, we challenge our ideas of canon by problematizing hegemonic aesthetics and combating the routines of chronology. Finally, our explorations seek to enrich our own sense of pleasure with opera as genre and concept.

Prerequisites: none listed

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