Opera for Beginners - Now open for all MSCN members!
6 week Zoom course with recordings
Tuesdays 1:30-3:30
September 24, October 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
Cost is $35.00 with a senior college membership
Call 207-659-1359 or email Sheila at pvscmaine@gmail.com
If you are member of another MSCN senior college, please email Sheila at
Course Description: Excellent acting, imaginative staging, interesting stories, and gorgeous music. Today’s opera productions can be deeply satisfying—far removed from the stereotype of helmeted, screechy sopranos and difficult music. With the wonders of video streaming, all the magic is available to us as never before. In this course we’ll walk through a few popular operas and talk about what to look and listen for. We’ll take a brief look at opera’s history. And we’ll preview some of the Metropolitan Opera’s simulcasts that will be shown at the Collins Center in coming months.
Instructor: One of Penobscot Valley Senior College's fearless Co-Presidents, Anita Kurth has had a passion for opera ever since the Metropolitan Opera started streaming performances to local theaters a dozen years ago. While Anita says she has no formal credentials in this subject, just a lot of reading and viewing, she loves sharing what she knows and hearing what others think. In her earlier life, Anita taught English at the University of Maine, Bangor.
More details: If you are member of another MSCN senior college, please email Sheila at pvscmaine@gmail.com to have our membership payment adjusted. We will need your full name, mailing address, phone, and email address. You may then either register online at penobscotvalleyseniorcollege.org or call with payment.
This is a 6-week Zoom course. A recurring link will be emailed two days prior to the first class, and on the morning of each additional class. Recordings of classes will be emailed to registered participants with viewing option for two weeks after each class.
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