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MUTH 232 Opera Units: 3.00
An introduction to opera through the study of selected works from the Baroque era to the 20th century. Equal attention will be paid to literary, musical, and visual aspects.
Learning Hours: 120 (36 Lecture, 84 Private Study)
Offering Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Science
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Analyze and assess production choices in live and recorded productions.
- Analyze primary source materials in order to make inferences about political workings in opera in Kingston.
- Describe ways that opera reflects its socio-cultural context.
- Extend theories on race, gender, and class to bear on innovative interpretations of opera.
- Identify and correlate relationships among the core elements of operatic performance, including music, text, design, and staging.
- Map patterns of innovation and influence in the history and development of opera.
- Predict points of tension in operatic production today, and hypothesize various approaches to its continued vitality in Canada in the present day.
- Read academic articles, summarize, discuss, present, and write with greater clarity and persuasion.