JASA SUNDAYS
Syllabus
for Spring 2024 – March 13 – May 19
Opera
Companion Class
10
am – 12 pm – Rm #509
Marymount
Manhattan College
221
East 71st Street
New
York, NY
Mefistofele (Boito) – 1876, Librettist Boito as
Composer
Otello Verdi) – 1887, Verdi’s Final opera & Boito
Librettist
NO JASA - ST. PATRICK'S DAY
Parsifal (Wagner) – 1882, Wagner's Final Opera
NO JASA - EASTER
Adriana Lecouvreur (Cilea) – 1902, Cilea's version of a true story
Giulio Cesare (Handel) – 1774, Handel’s Julius Caesar
La Fanciulla del West (Puccini) – 1910, Puccini's version of wild west's Gold Rush
Pagliacci (Leoncavallo) – 1892, Gypsies' love triangle and Commedia dell'arte
La Gioconda (Ponchielli) – 1876, Based on Hugo’s 1835 Play
Pearl Fishers (Bizet) – 1863, Conflict btw Sacred
& Secular Love
Manon Lescaut (Puccini) 1893, Puccini’s version of 1731 Novel
