"How to Listen to and Understand Opera" series will start April 13th. Opera is a combination of soliloquy, dialogue, scenery, action and nearly continuous music. It is the only art form that combines all of these elements.

Watch for further details.

Coming Soon to the Cloverdale Center for the Arts – A “How to Listen to and Understand Opera” Course.

For more than 400 years, opera has been one of the most popular performing arts. Opera geniuses - Monteverdi, Mozart, Verdi, Wagner, and Puccini created some of the most glorious operas of all times. Opera is a marriage of words and music. The music is transcendently beautiful.

This course on DVD features vintage photos of great composers, classical performances (no footage of actual performances), along with on-screen translations of vocal selections as they are being played. By the end of the course you will understand, appreciate and even love opera.

Between lecture evenings, three full operas will be show. Discussion after the lectures and the full operas will be facilitated by Bob (opera fan) Jordan and his opera buddy, Joyce Mann.

Watch the Alliance web site and calendar for full details.