Opera Lecture Series - The Operas of the Age of Puccini
Thursdays, 10am to 12pm Thursday 4 June to Thursday 13 August Except Thursday 11 June
Since 2003, Opera Bites co-founder Murray Dahm has delivered accessible, friendly and informative lectures, drawing on its history, culture and music. Enjoy exploring a variety of areas of operatic history from composers and voice types through to genres and quirky bits of opera trivia.
From Verdi and Puccini to opera darlings such as Luciano Pavarotti and Joan Sutherland, Murray presents weekly fun, informative and thoroughly delightful talks, abundantly illustrated with audio and visual excerpts.
Murray's style is popular with seasoned opera-goers and newcomers alike. Come and revel in the joy of opera!
The Operas of the Age of Puccini – In the late 19th century, Italian opera faced something of a crisis. It's greatest composer, Giuseppe Verdi, was now in his 60's and so the search was on to find the next great Italian opera composer. Several candidates presented themselves. Today we might think Giacomo Puccini was the obvious candidate - with operas like La Boheme, Tosca, Madame Butterfly, Turandot which all remain immensely popular - but, at the time, the matter was not so clear cut. Come and join me for this entertaining and informative 10-week course exploring the operas of Puccini and his contemporaries.
Full term enrolments and Casual Drop In available.