MUSC/WGST 248: Women in Opera
Operas—from Georges Bizet’s Carmen to George and Ira Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess—are multimedia spectacles to which women have contributed both onstage and behind the scenes as singers and dancers, composers and librettists, stage directors and choreographers, designers and impresarios. Casting the net wide also to include opera in film and cartoons as well as cross-overs to the musical stage, this course explores not only women’s changing roles and influence in the history of opera, but also how operas, films, and other media shaped and reflected socio-political constructions of “woman.”
Taught by Distinguished Professor Annegret Fauser this course earns 3 credit hours towards graduation and is counts for both Music credit as well as a Women and Gender Studies credit.
Photo Credit: Simon Wedege Petersen