Opera in the 20th Century

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Topics in Musicology:
Opera in the 20th Century
Catholic University of America

• Dr. Charles T. Downey
  
• Tim Ballard
  
• Phil Carluzzo
  
• Grace Cho
  
• Lindsay M. Heller
  
• Kyoung-Hee Jung

Recent Posts

• Turning Off the Lights
• December 10: Round Table Discussion
• November 25: Thanksgiving Holiday
• November 19: Postmodern Opera
• November 12: Opera in Russia
• Making Opera Relevant
• November 5: Opera and Minimalism
• October 29: Opera in America
• October 22: Opera and Jazz
• ionarts: 20th-Century Opera

Archives

• 08/29/2004 - 09/05/2004
• 09/05/2004 - 09/12/2004
• 09/12/2004 - 09/19/2004
• 09/19/2004 - 09/26/2004
• 09/26/2004 - 10/03/2004
• 10/03/2004 - 10/10/2004
• 10/10/2004 - 10/17/2004
• 10/17/2004 - 10/24/2004
• 10/24/2004 - 10/31/2004
• 10/31/2004 - 11/07/2004
• 11/07/2004 - 11/14/2004
• 11/14/2004 - 11/21/2004
• 11/21/2004 - 11/28/2004
• 12/05/2004 - 12/12/2004
• Current Posts

Course Syllabus, 2004

• September 3: Introduction
• September 10: Pelléas et Mélisande (1902)
• September 17: Salome (1905)
• September 24: Billy Budd (1951)
• October 1: Opera and Nationalism
• October 8: The Ghosts of Versailles (1991)
• October 15: The End of Opera?
• October 22: Opera and Jazz
• October 29: Opera in America
• November 5: Opera and Minimalism
• November 12: Opera in Russia
• November 19: Postmodern Opera
• November 25: Thanksgiving Holiday
• December 3: Opera Potluck (Korngold, Catán, Glass)
• December 10: Round Table Discussion

Links

ionarts (Dr. Downey)
The Rest Is Noise (Alex Ross)
Jessica Duchen
What I Like About... (Isaac Watras)
About Last Night (Terry Teachout)
Symphony X
sounds & fury (A. C. Douglas)
Arts and Letters Daily
ArtsJournal
Listen 101 (Steve Hicken's 101 essential pieces of 20th-century music)
twang twang twang

Gramophone
Andante
The New Yorker
Opera News Online
Twentieth-Century Music
Sequenza 21
Musical America
New Music Box (American Music Center)
Music & Vision
Muso
FanFaire

Doctoral Dissertations in Musicology
IRCAM (Paris, France)
Washington National Opera
Metropolitan Opera (New York)
Met Opera Broadcasts
The Wagner Library (Patrick Swinkels)
IRCAM (Paris)