摘要

You'll Learn to Understand and Appreciate Opera in Just 24 Hours The world has never known a performing art as beloved as opera. For more than 400 years, it has been the premier performing art. Geniuses-the likes of Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Puccini-produced some of the landmark artistic achievements of all time in this form. Have you ever watched someone listening rapturously to an aria? How they seem to go into a trance when the music and singing swells? You may think that listening to and understanding opera may be far beyond your comprehension. Not so! With Professor Greenberg to show you how, you can learn to understand, appreciate-even to love-opera in just 24 hours of lectures-lectures that are a pleasure to hear. In this enjoyable and enlightening course, you will trace the history of opera from its beginning in the early 17th century to the early 20th century. Concepts Explained in Layman's Terms How to Listen to and Understand Opera will help you understand... how extraordinary musical and dramatic effects are achieved what the composers are saying to their audiences why the differing social and political fortunes of the times were so important to each country's development of their operas. You will come to appreciate how music has the power to reveal truths beyond the spoken word... how opera is a unique marriage of words and music in which the whole is far greater than its parts. If you are already an opera lover, it will enrich your pleasure many times over. If you are new to opera, and have wondered what it might be like to share the sublime pleasures being enjoyed by so many millions, this course will give you the key to a world you can explore on your own for the rest of your life! All of which you can accomplish in the time it takes you to get to your office.