MUSI 112: Listening to Music
Lecture 19 - Romantic Opera: Verdi's La Traviata, Bocelli, Pavarotti and Domingo. This lecture focuses on opera and the operatic voice, from the Romantic period to the present. Professor Wright integrates a discussion of one of the most often-performed and famous operas in the Western canon, Verdi's La Traviata, with a discussion of vocal performance practice. For the latter, he uses recordings of singers from the early to late twentieth century as examples of different types of voices and the ways in which aesthetic values about the voice have changed throughout the past hundred years. (from oyc.yale.edu)
| Lecture 19 - Romantic Opera: Verdi's La Traviata, Bocelli, Pavarotti and Domingo |
| Time | Lecture Chapters |
| [00:00:00] | 1. Introduction to Opera |
| [00:05:09] | 2. Verdi's "La Traviata": The First Aria |
| [00:19:37] | 3. The Scena in Opera |
| [00:26:59] | 4. Critical Assessment of Vocal Performance |
| [00:33:06] | 5. Major Opera Singers of the 20th and 21st Centuries |
| References |
| Lecture 19 - Romantic Opera: Verdi’s La Traviata, Bocelli, Pavarotti and Domingo Instructor: Professor Craig Wright. Transcript [html]. Audio [mp3]. Download Video [mov]. |
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