Tuesday 22 January 2019, 10.30am
Love & Duty in Verdi’s operas
Few other composers have so perfectly explored the complexity of duty vs. personal relationships like Verdi. Focusing on some of his most well-known compositions, this lecture...
Wednesday 23 January 2019, 7.15pm
Your chance to hear Tusk’s Ambassador, the explorer and author Levison Wood, recounting tales from his most ambitious expedition yet - a 5,000-mile circumnavigation of the...
Tuesday 29 January 2019, 10.30am
The tragedy of Silence. Puccini, Orientalism & Miscommunication
In this lecture Becca Marriott will explore the concepts of Exoticism and Orientalism in verismo opera and how Puccini’s Madama Butterfly and Turandot uphold and defy our ideas...
Tuesday 5 February 2019, 10.30am
The spectrum of romantic declaration in the tenor repertoire
Love is the tenor's realm. Look through any compilation of tenor arias from history's greatest operas and you will find that love and romance is the overwhelming theme. That word...
Tuesday 12 February 2019, 10.30am
The famous and forgotten of operatic history
As an art form, opera stands entirely alone; a unique blend of music, drama, poetry and emotion. It is as addictive, glamorous and fascinating now as it was at its...
