Courses: 1979 - 2016

The Age of Bel Canto:  Bellini and Donizetti


Baroque Jewels I: A Comparative Study of Operas by Handel, Vivaldi and Other Baroque Masters on Related Themes


Baroque Jewels II: A Continuing Comparative Study of Operas by Handel, Vivaldi and Other Baroque Master on Related Themes


Berlioz: His Life and Works


The Cantatas of J.S.Bach, Part I


The Cantatas of J.S. Bach, Part II: The Leipzig Cycles


Chech Masters: Smetana, Dvorak, Martinu


Czech Masters:  Smetana, Dvorak, Janacek


Classical Literature and Legend as Opera


The Complete Operas of Donizetti, Part I - Donizetti Finds his Voice


The Complete Operas of Donizetti, Part II - The Age of Donizetti


The Complete Operas of Rossini: Part I -  The Classical Rossini


The Complete Operas of Rossini: Part II -  Rossini Serioso


The Complete Operas of Verdi, Part I: Viva Verdi – The Man, the Music and the Risorgimento


The Complete Operas of Verdi, Part II – The International Verdi


Gluck and the Reform of 18th Century Opera, fall 2007


Handel in Italy: The Road to Agrippina


Handel’s Dramatic Oratorios


Handel’s Heroines


Handel’s Journey from Opera to Oratorio


Handel’s Masques and Dramatic Oratorios


Haydn at Esterhaza


The Haydn String Quartets


The History of Opera


History of Slavic Opera


Italian Verismo and its Influence


The Kirov at the Met


The Life and Works of Dimitri Shostakovich


The Life and Works of Leos Janacek


Literature as Opera


Mahler: Opera Composer in Disguise


Many Faces of Armida


Many Faces of Faust


The Many Faces of Orfeo


The Many Faces of Orlando


Master of the French Baroque: Jean-Philippe Rameau


The Met at 100- A Perspective on the History of Opera:  Part I – Baroque, Classical, and early romantic Opera


Met at 100- A Perspective on the History of Opera:  Part II –Opera in the 19th and 20th Centuries


Mozart: The Early Operas


Mozart and His Contemporaries: Opera in the Age of Enlightenment


Mozart's Golden Years


Opera Rarities for a New England Summer


The Operas at Glimmerglass, summer 1996: La Calisto, La Finta Giardinier,Don Pasquale, and Lizzie Borden


The Operas of Bellini


The Operas of Benjamin Britten


The Operas of Donizetti


The Operas of Handel


The Operas of Mozart


The Operas of Puccini


The Operas of Rossini


The Operas of Strauss


The Operas of Verdi


The Operas of Wagner


The Orchestral Works of Mozart and Haydn


Russian Masters of the 19th Century: Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky, Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakov


Russian Masters of the Twentieth Century: Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich


Schubert in Song, Part I


Schubert in Song, Part II


Schubert in Song: Die Schone Mullerin and Winterreise


Shakespeare as Opera


The Symphonies of Shostakovich


Three Centuries of French Opera


Vivaldi in Venice: Opera Master of the Italian Baroque


Wagner’s Ring:  Music, Myth, and Meaning