JASA SUNDAYS

Syllabus for Spring 2024 – March 13 – May 19

Opera Companion Class

10 am – 12 pm – Rm #509

Marymount Manhattan College

221 East 71^st 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