JANE MARSH OPERA LECTURES & MASTER CLASS - JASA NEXTACT - MARYMOUNT MANHATTAN COLLEGE

JANE MARSH OPERA LECTURES & MASTER CLASSES

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LECTURES

(10 am – 12 pm, Room 608)

MASTER CLASSES

(3 pm), Grand Room 2nd Floor)

FALL 2025

Sunday, Sept 21 (10 am – 12 pm) Lecture, Don Giovanni

The essence of Mozart’s Don Giovanni lies in the exploration of morality and the consequences of unchecked ambition and libertinism

Sunday, Sept 21 (3 pm) – Master Class, Mezzo-soprano

Sunday, Sept 28 (10 am – 12 pm) Lecture, La Forza del Destino

Verdi’s La Forza del Destino is the story of a woman’s struggle to break away from familial expectation, only to witness her father’s accidental death and retreat onto spiritual and religious protection

Sunday, Oct 5 (10 am – 12 pm) Lecture, Luisa Miller

Verdi’s Luisa Miller is the opening of Verdi’s Middle Period and based on literary material, a blending of emotional challenge, romance and vocal display

Sunday, Oct 12 (10 am – 12 pm) Lecture, Andrea Chenier

Giordano’s Andrea Cheniér is a dramatic portrayal of love and sacrifice, set against the French Revolution

Sunday, Oct 19 (10 am – 12 pm) Lecture, Mefistofele

Boito’s Mefistofele scornfully declares that he can win the soul of Faust. His challenge is accepted by the Forces of Good

Sunday, Oct 19 (3 pm) – Master Class, Bass Baritone

Sunday, Oct 26 (10 am – 12 pm), Arabella

Richard Strauss’ Arabella combines beauty and moral strength against the confines of social standing

Sunday, Nov 9 (10 am –  12 pm), Lohengrin

Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin combines enormous musical impetus with the beauty and moral strength against the confines of hostile power

Sunday, Nov 16 (10 am – 12 pm), Tristan u. Isolde

Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde explores transcendental, all-consuming love, and its relationship to death, desire, and renunciation

Sunday, Nov 16 (3 pm) – Master Class, Baritone

Sunday, Nov 23 (10 am – 12 pm), Eugene Onegin

Tchaikovsky’s and Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin explores disillusionment, social alienation, and the conflict of romantic ideals

Dec 7 (10 am – 12 pm), Hansel u. Gretel

Based on the Grimm fairytale, Humperdinck’s Hansel u. Gretel shows the talent of Humperdinck and sister, in creating a Fairytale opera. It was the first complete broadcast opera at the Met on Christmas 1931.