Fall 2025 OLLI Digital Catalog 

From The Great Italian Opera Houses (CA327)

CA – Performing Arts Appreciation

Many of the truly wonderful opera performances are found away from the Metropolitan Opera. Many countries celebrate the traditions of grand opera and help to secure opera’s future. In this class, the instructor focuses on opera houses in Italy. These houses bring wonderful artists from a wide variety of countries to a place that claims opera as a national art, a prized part of their culture. As operas don’t tend to fit into a 75-minute class, each session is recorded and shared with participants.

This offering meets for a total of 13 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: Robert Violette

VIOLETTE, ROBERT — Has enjoyed a life of singing the leading roles in the operas of Mozart, Verdi, Puccini, Strauss and Wagner, as well as some contemporary composers. Each composer taught him how to listen, understand and appreciate their own language. (CA327, CA328, CA330, CA331)

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