Lectures will be conducted the two Saturdays prior to each opera at Shepherd's Frank Center M16 with the performances the following Sunday at either the Baltimore Opera Company's Lyric Theater or the Virginia Opera at George Mason University. Series lecturers will be Thomas Magruder and Charlene Perry. The next appreciation classes will be held Saturday, June 2 and Saturday, June 9 at 2 p.m. for the last opera, La Turandot, which will be held Sunday, June 10 at the Virginia Opera. The lectures will cover the plot, background, composer, librettist, famous arias and ensemble pieces, conductors, and the orchestra. Recordings of the opera will be played to compare and contrast different singers doing the same aria.
Registration is due six weeks before the opera.
The fee includes two lectures, opera tickets, and transportation to and from the opera. For more information, call Hannah Geffert at ext. The play, both comic and serious, examines issues of oppression and tyranny that are still relevant today. For more information, contact Dr. Betty Ellzey at ext. I will be through May 31 via RAIL and Summer Term II will be through July 5.