Online Learning courses are designed to provide distance learning opportunities to those interested in delving deeper into operatic subject matters. All online learning courses are self-paced, allowing for a flexible learning schedule. Each course features video lectures, supplemental readings, and, when applicable, score excerpts for further study. While the ability to read music is not required for these courses, it may be helpful for certain topics.
The registration fee for each course is $100.00. Click here to view our current online learning offerings.
Course enrollment is available at any time, and content will remain available to you for 60 days from your date of registration.
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Current Online Learning Courses Include:
This course explores the life and work of librettists including Lorenzo Da Ponte, Salvadore Cammarano, Michel Carré, Jules Barbier, Luigi Illica, and Giuseppe Giacosa. In addition to discussions of biographical and historical contexts, classroom lectures, assigned readings, and listening will focus on source materials behind operatic libretto texts. Participants will also learn about the process of adaptation and interpretation of texts within operatic frameworks, and the relationship between composers and librettists at different points in opera history.
Operatic Libretti and Librettists contains an introductory video and five video lectures. Supplemental readings, videos, and score excerpts are also provided.
Featuring video lectures, supplemental readings, and score
excerpts, this four-part course focuses on Wagner’s masterwork, the Ring cycle.
Each session provides an opportunity for in-depth exploration of one of the
cycle’s operas. Composer, conductor, and lecturer Victoria Bond will provide
insight into the musical evolution of each work—from the lighter fare to
leitmotifs to the rich, complex musical textures that are woven throughout this
epic story of myth and magic.
Introduction to Score Reading
This course teaches the fundamentals of score reading through video lectures, supplemental readings, and score excerpts. Beginning with music notation and building through score structure, you will develop the tolls to explore the intricate workings of a score and experience a new way of listening to opera.