at the MILES NADAL
JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTRE
750 Spadina Avenue, (at Bloor Street)
Toronto, ON
“OPERA : five weeks in PARIS”
five Monday afternoons
1:30 to 3:30 p.m.
23rd M A R C H, 2 0 2 0
to 27th A P R I L , 2 0 2 0
To register,
visit www.mnjcc.org
or call 416 924 6211 x0.
For more information,
please use this link
to e-mail LISA ROY
(Manager,
Adult Daytime Culture and Education)
COURSE OUTLINE: For centuries, Paris has been both a “model” and a “magnet” – the richest and most dominant city in Europe.
As a “model”, Parisian fashions in architecture, dress, literature and music radiated across the continent. Parisian cultural influence on Russia, Germany, Austria, Italy and Spain is unparalleled.
As a “magnet”, it attracted the world’s greatest artists and innovators – and any success in Paris ensured not only widespread fame, but also unprecedented financial rewards.
As a result, nearly all of the greatest opera composers, both domestic and foreign-born (e.g. Lully, Rameau, Gluck, Meyerbeer, Verdi, Wagner, Bizet, Massenet, Debussy, etc.) created their greatest works for Paris.
And the city of Paris is the place-setting for many of the world’s most famous and most loved operas
(e.g. Manon, La Bohème, La Traviata, Andrea Chénier, etc.).
In this course, we will use a loose historical framework to trace the development of operas created for the city, and to illustrate operas, composed in later times, set in each period of the city’s fascinating history.
In so doing, we will not only learn about a great “model” and “magnet” city …
but also about the breadth of the art-form of Opera itself.
Monday, 23rd March, 2020
“The Ancien Régime and the French Revolution”
Operas will include “Andrea Chenier”, “Manon” and “Adriana Lecouvreur”
Monday, 30th March, 2020
no class – (Iain will be in Barcelona, on tour)
Monday, 6th April, 2020
“Bohemian Paris and the Citizen King”
Operas will include “La Boheme” and “La Traviata”
Monday, 13th April, 2020
“La Gloire – Paris in the Second Empire”
Operas will include “Les Troyens”, “Thais” and “Lakme”
Monday, 20th April, 2020
“Opera and Paris in La Belle Époque”
Operas will include “Samson et Dalila”, “Fedora”
Monday, 27th April, 2020
“Paris in the Fin de Siècle and Paris today”
Operas will include “Pelleas et Melisande”, “La Rondine”
Previous Courses taught by Iain at the Miles Nadal JCC …
2019 MOZART at the OPERA
2019 GREAT CANADIAN
OPERA SINGERS
2018 COMIC and LIGHT OPERAS
2018 EXOTIC (FOREIGN) OPERAS
2017 TEN TYPES OF TENORS
2017 MASTERS OF “BEL CANTO”
2016 “ALL IN THE FAMILY”
2015 SHAKESPEARE in OPERA
2014 FOUR “JEWISH” OPERAS
2014 THE OPERAS OF PUCCINI
2013 PREVIEW of UPCOMING
COC Productions
2013 PREVIEW of UPCOMING
“MET LIVE IN HD” Broadcasts
2012 PREVIEW of UPCOMING
“MET LIVE IN HD” Broadcasts
2012 FAMOUS OPERATIC TENORS
(in addition, Iain has given numerous “one-off” lectures for the Miles Nadal JCC)