Since its beginnings around 1600, no genre of Western art music has been more innovative or influential than opera. It has inspired devotion and disdain, and led to innumerable theoretical debates. In this unit, 400 years of changing operatic practices will be explored through a series of seminal works. These will be treated as documents of specific historical circumstances (including contemporaneous singing and staging practices), and as aesthetic objects which have been reinvented continuously down to the present.
Unit details and rules
Academic unit | |
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Credit points | 6 |
Prerequisites
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MCGY2611 or MCGY2612 or MCGY2613 or MUSC1506 |
Corequisites
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None |
Prohibitions
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None |
Assumed knowledge
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None |
Available to study abroad and exchange students | Yes |
Teaching staff
Coordinator | Alan Maddox, alan.maddox@sydney.edu.au |
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Lecturer(s) | Alan Maddox, alan.maddox@sydney.edu.au |
Michael Halliwell, michael.halliwell@sydney.edu.au | |
David Larkin, david.larkin@sydney.edu.au |