Spring 2020: The Classroom Companion to the 2019-2020
Metropolitan Opera Season, Part II
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY
Classes ran for 8 weeks at The Cosmopolitan Club, New NY
Fall 2019: The Classroom Companion to the 2019-2020
Metropolitan Opera Season, Part I
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY
Classes ran for 8 weeks at The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NY
Spring 2019: The Classroom Companion to the 2018-2019
Metropolitan Opera Season, Part II
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY
Classes ran for 8 weeks at The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NY
Fall 2018: The Classroom Companion to the 2018-2019
Metropolitan Opera Season, Part I
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY
Classes ran for 8 weeks at The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NY
Spring 2018: The Classroom Companion to the 2017-2018
Metropolitan Opera Season, Part II
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY
Classes ran for 8 weeks at The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NY
Fall 2017: The Classroom Companion to the 2017-2018
Metropolitan Opera Season, Part I
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY
Classes ran for 8 weeks at The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NY
Spring 2017: The Classroom Companion to the 2016-2017
Metropolitan Opera Season, Part II
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY
Classes ran for 8 weeks at The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NY
Fall 2016: The Classroom Companion to the 2016-2017
Metropolitan Opera Season, Part I
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY
Classes ran for 8 weeks at The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NY
Spring 2016: The Classroom Companion to the 2015-2016
Metropolitan Opera Season, Part II
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY
Classes ran for 8 weeks at The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NY
Fall 2015: The Classroom Companion to the 2015-2016
Metropolitan Opera Season, Part I
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY
Classes ran for 8 weeks at The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NY
- Puccini’s Female Characters and the Voices that Sing Them
- Driving Forces: The Male Characters of Verdi’s Warhorses
- An Introduction to Wagner’s Tannhäuser
- New Production Spotlight: Berg’s Lulu
- Puccini’s Male Characters and the Voices that Sing Them
- From the Page to the Stage: The Design Process
- From the Page to the Stage: The Rehearsal Process
- An Introduction to Puccini’s La Bohème
Spring 2015: The Classroom Companion to the 2014-2015
Metropolitan Opera Season, Part II
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY
Classes ran for 8 weeks at The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NY
- Blind & Obsessed: Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta & Bartok’s Bluebeard’s Castle
- Re-Examining the Story of a Rake: Mozart’s Don Giovanni
- Back to Bel Canto: Comparing and Contrasting Rossini and Donizetti
- Conductors and Conducting: Part II
- Women and their Bodies: Massenet’s Manon & Verdi’s La Traviata
- Verdi Voices and Critical Listening: Ernani, Don Carlo,and Un Ballo in Maschera
- Connective Tissue: Re-Imagining Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci & Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana
- Looking Ahead: Operas of the 2015-2016 Season
Fall 2014: The Classroom Companion to the 2014-2015
Metropolitan Opera Season, Part I
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY
Classes ran for 8 weeks at The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NY
- Mozart and Beaumarchais
- Verdi and Shakespeare
- Modern Opera: What’s all the Noise about?
- Lessons in Critical Listening
- Met Magic: Behind the Golden Curtain
- Conductors and Conducting
- The Camera’s Gaze: Analyzing Opera on the Big Screen
- German Masterpieces
Spring 2014: The Classroom Companion to the 2013-2014
Metropolitan Opera Season, Part II
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY
Classes ran for 8 weeks at The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NY
- Opera and Fairytales
- Operetta
- An Unfinished Masterpiece: Prince Igor
- Opera as Literature
- Portrayals of Insanity on the Opera Stage
- Viva la vie Bohème!
- Andrea Chenier: A Hidden Verismo Treasure
- Exoticism on the Opera Stage
Fall 2013: The Classroom Companion to the 2013-2014
Metropolitan Opera Season, Part I
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY
Classes ran for 8 weeks at The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NY
- Russian Romantics
- Mozart and the Enlightenment Era
- 20th and 21st Century Innovators
- Bel Canto Confections
- Puccini & Verismo Aesthetics
- Viva Verdi!
- Strauss and the Late Romantic Era
- Musical Meaning and Symbolism in The Magic Flute
Spring 2013: Introduction to the Operatic Art Form
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY
Classes ran for 8 weeks at The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NY
- Vocal Vocab
- Operatic Voice Types
- Opera History: Baroque & Early Classical Era
- Opera History: Late Classical & The Romantic Era, Part 1
- Opera History: Opera in the Romantic Era, Part 2
- Opera History: Opera in the Romantic Era, Part 3
- Opera History: 20th and 21st Century Opera
- Opera Behind the Scenes
Fall 2012: Introduction to the Operatic Art Form
The Metropolitan Opera Guild, New York, NY
Classes ran for 8 weeks at The Cosmopolitan Club, New York, NY
- Vocal Vocab
- Operatic Voice Types
- Opera History: Baroque & Early Classical Era
- Opera History: Late Classical Era & Italian Romantic Opera
- Opera History: German, French and Russian Romantic Opera
- Opera History: 20th and 21st Century Opera
- Opera Behind the Scenes
- Culminating Masterclass (with guest master teacher, focusing on counter-tenors)