Inside Opera: Why Does It Matter?

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Inside Opera: Why Does It Matter?
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Overview

Duration	4 weeks
Mode of learning	Online
Official Website	Go to Website
Credential	Certificate

Inside Opera: Why Does It Matter?
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Highlights

Duration 4 weeks,Weekly study 2 hours.
Complete 90% of course steps and all of the assessments to earn your certificate.
Explore the major roles involved in staging an opera, both in the past and today.
Explore how new technologies have altered the way audiences experience opera.

Inside Opera: Why Does It Matter?
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Course details

More about this course

If you have never been to an opera, or assumed its not for you, you will learn the basics in a new and exciting way.
This course covers topic like
What is opera?
What happens onstage?
What goes on backstage?
How is opera embedded in the world beyond the opera house?
If you already enjoy opera and want to learn more, this course will enrich your future experiences, helping you to develop a toolkit of operatic concepts to draw on long after you have finished the course.
Now is your chance to explore this diverse and spectacular art form.

Inside Opera: Why Does It Matter?
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Curriculum

What is opera?

Welcome to Week 1

What is opera today?

How did we get here?

Operatic constants - the six crucial ingredients

Week 1 wrap-up

Onstage

Welcome to Week 2

Who sings?

How have voice types changed?

The anatomy of an aria

Different singers, different sounds

Week 2 wrap-up

Backstage

Welcome to Week 3

Opera's main players

Historical developments

What's being performed?

Week 3 wrap-up

Beyond the opera house

Welcome to Week 4

Opera and the wider world

Opera and globalisation

Opera beyond the opera house

Week 4 wrap-up

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Faculty details

Flora Willson

Designation : Flora is a Lecturer in Music at King’s College London, where she specialises in 19th-century opera. She is a regular guest on BBC R3 and also writes for The Guardian and Opera magazine.