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 Please visit our new calendar for a full list of events! Magical Moments: The Opera Ball Learn more about La Cenerentola with Opera America! Delve Into Online Learning With OPERA America OPERA America’s Online Learning Series is back and better than ever, with a full season of four courses on opera masterworks. Next up is Rossini’s La Cenerentola. The course will run from February 13 through March 5, 2008, with a link to a new lecture sent each week over e-mail. What is Online Learning? Designed as a service for opera lovers and those who wish to learn more about the art form, our courses provide an in-depth understanding of masterpieces of opera literature using the unique capacity and convenience of the Internet. Each online course features content that focuses on the historical background, musical style, literary source, and the dramatic structure of an opera. Course lectures are e-mailed to participants once each week for four weeks, allowing you to review the course material at your own pace. Audio clips and production photos are also provided, aiding in the study of musical style and analysis. Online bulletin boards are used to connect course participants to the instructor and each other. About the Course A retelling of the story of Cinderella, this opera has it all: an underdog, a love story, and two delicious villainesses. Rossini, the comic genius responsible for The Barber of Seville, wrote this opera in a little over three weeks; this course will take four weeks to consider the work's story, music, performance traditions, and productions over the years. Meet Your Instructor Denise Gallo is a specialist in nineteenth-century Italian opera. Formerly an Assistant Professor and Co-Director of the Music History Division at The Catholic University of America, she holds a doctorate in Historical Musicology. Active in arts education, she is a frequent lecturer for Washington Opera, the Baltimore Opera Company, Washington Concert Opera, the Smithsonian Associates, and Summer Opera Theatre Company. In 2006, she was a featured lecturer for the Metropolitan Opera Education Series. An active
scholar, she presents her research at national and international
musicological conferences. Her book, Opera: The
Basics, was published
in 2006 by Routledge. Other publications include a book on Rossini
and a chapter on the libretto of Verdi’s Falstaff for The
Verdi Sourcebook (Toccata Press). She is also preparing the volume
of banda music for the Critical Edition of the Works of Gioachino
Rossini, to be published by Bärenreiter Press in 2008 and
is at work on a book entitled Walt Whitman and Music: “I
and my recitatives.” Ask the Questions You Want Answered In addition the Web-based course materials, you will be able to interact with Dr. Gallo, and other course participants through our online discussion board, where new questions will be posted each week. You will have the opportunity to offer comments, and pose any burning questions you may have. Registration As a patron of Connecticut Opera, you can have access to La Cenerentola free of charge. To register, send an e-mail with your name, street address, and the e-mail address where you would like to receive the course information to aisaacs@ctopera.org. 2007-2008 Season In addition to La Cenerentola, three other courses are
available this season. To learn more, and register for these courses,
click
here.
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