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About amerigolab

Welcome to amerigolab, my website. I am a Professor at York College (The City University of New York), where I teach Italian, Humanities, and World Literature courses.

Module 6

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Module 6 Lecture

The podcast is crafted and presented by Prof. Ghelli.

Try taking notes to boost your understanding and remember more from the podcast. Make it even easier by using the OUTLINE provided.

Videos

Watch La Cavalleria Rusticana, by Pietro Mascagni (The libretto in English translation is available here)

Listen to Andrea Bocelli – Brindisi – from Cavalleria Rusticana

Watch  the following selection of I Pagliacci, by Ruggero Leoncavallo

Listen from La Boheme (Giacomo Puccini)- Pavarotti- “Che gelida manina” Fiamma Izzo d’ Amico “Si, mi chiamano Mimi”

Reading Material (click below):

  1. Verismo in Italian Opera
  2. Cavalleria Rusticana/Pagliacci
  3. La Boheme

Module 5

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Module 5 Lecture

The podcast is crafted and presented by Prof. Ghelli.

Try taking notes to boost your understanding and remember more from the podcast. Make it even easier by using the OUTLINE provided.

Videos

Listen to  A selection of Verdi’s operatic overtures and arias

-La forza del destino — overture
–Attila — ‘O dolore! Ed io vivea’
–I vespri siciliani — ‘À toi que j’ai chérie’
–La traviata — Prelude (Act 1)
–Simon Boccanegra — ‘O inferno! … Sento avvampar nell’anima’
–Aida — Triumphal March (Act 2)
-Luisa Miller — ‘O fede negar potessi … Quando le sere al placido’
–Rigoletto – ‘La donna è mobile’

Watch the following selections of La Traviata, by Giuseppe Verdi

Listen to The Ride of the Valkyries, by Richard Wagner, probably the most famous and instantly identifiable of Wagner’s works.

Reading Material (click below):

  1. Giuseppe Verdi
  2.  About “La Traviata”
  3. Wagner

Module 4

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Module 4 Lecture

The podcast is crafted and presented by Prof. Ghelli.

Try taking notes to boost your understanding and remember more from the podcast. Make it even easier by using the OUTLINE provided.

Videos

Familiarize with Bel Canto

Listen to Casta Diva. Norma. V. Bellini (Don’t worry about the words, but concentrate on the music and voice)

Listen to Sogno Soave e Casto. Don Pasquale. G. Doninzetti (Don’t worry about the words but concentrate on the music and voice)

Watch Il Barbiere di Siviglia, by Gioacchino Rossini (Click [CC] for subtitles) (The libretto in English translation is available here). Choose and watch one of the following two representations.

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Reading Material (click below):

  1. Fidelio: The Problem of Beethoven and his Only Opera
  2. Bel Canto: Audiences Love It, but What Is It?
  3. Read Encyclopædia Britannica for Il Barbiere di Siviglia Background Information and Story Summary

Module 3

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Module 3 Lecture

The podcast is crafted and presented by Prof. Ghelli.

Try taking notes to boost your understanding and remember more from the podcast. Make it even easier by using the OUTLINE provided.

Videos

Listen to  Stizzoso, mio stizzoso (Aria from La Serva Padrona, by Pergolesi) Click here for Italian Words and English Translation.

Watch Le Nozze di Figaro, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart  (The libretto with English translation is available here).

Choose and watch one of the following two representations.

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Reading Material (click below):

  1. Opera Buffa and Opera Seria
  2. Read Encyclopædia Britannica for Le Nozze di Figaro Background Information and Story Summary.

Module 2

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Module 2 Lecture

The podcast is crafted and presented by Prof. Ghelli.

Try taking notes to boost your understanding and remember more from the podcast. Make it even easier by using the OUTLINE provided.

Videos

Watch the Orfeo, by Claudio Monteverdi. The libretto with English translation is available here. Choose and watch one of the following two representations.

The performance below occurred on the 18th of November 2017 at the Madlenianum Theatre in Belgrade, Serbia.

 

Reading Material (click below):

  1. Dafne
  2. Orpheus and Eurydice
  3. The Root of all Opera: Monteverdi’s Orfeo

Module 1

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Module 1 Lecture

The podcast is crafted and presented by Prof. Ghelli.

Try taking notes to boost your understanding and remember more from the podcast. Make it even easier by using the OUTLINE provided.

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