Module 1 Lecture

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Videos

Familiarize yourself with the leading voice types.

Listen to Alessandro Moreschi, the last-ever performing castrato, and the only one recorded.

Watch your First Opera:  Rigoletto, by Giuseppe Verdi. The libretto with English translation is available here.

“Rigoletto seems to be a textbook example of everything an opera should contain: instantly memorable, highly dramatic music, characters, and situation we care about, and action that lunges forward, taking us on an emotional ride that is heightened by the music’s power” Fred Plotkin

Choose and watch one of the following two representations

1. Giuseppe Verdi – Rigoletto – Pavarotti, Gruberova, Wixell – Chailly – 1982

2. Rigoletto – Petean, Schiavo, Ruiz – 2018

Reading Material (click below):

1. Language in the Culture of Opera
2. Castrati had more fun than you might think. Samantha Ellis meets a singer who wishes he’d had the chop
3. Opera Etiquette