IS3249H — Hnrs:Literature Through Opera
Opera is often a musical staging of a preexisting story from literature or theater. While it combines music, drama, and visuals like film, opera is fundamentally different in that the audience already knows the story on which the opera is based. What do composers and librettists hope to add to their audience's understanding of a work they already know by setting it to music? Explore this cultural question through close examination of works of literature and the operas on which they are based. prereq: participation in Honors Program