Opera Boot Camp – Intro to the Chorus, Part 3: From the Romantic Period to the Present Day
April 13, 2019 | |
10:30 am | |
New York | |
The Metropolitan Opera Guild | |
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Verdi included a chorus in all of his most popular operas; Wagner felt that the opera chorus lacked dramatic function and deliberately excluded it in his later works. Today, composers use the chorus in a variety of innovative ways. This lecture will focus on how the use of the opera chorus has changed, both dramatically and musically, from the Romantic era to the present day.