French Literature Goes to the Opera

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

In this course, the full title of which is Taking Liberties: From Book to Libretto, or French Literature Goes to the Opera and which is taught in French, we will be looking a series of parent texts, written originally in French, and their operatic offspring. Works include <i>The Barber of Seville</i> (Beaumarchais/Rossini); <i>The Marriage of Figaro</i> (Beaumarchais/Mozart); <i>Don Juan</i> (Molière) and <i>Don Giovanni</i> (Mozart); Manon Lescaut (Prévost/Puccini), <i>Carmen</i> (Mérimée/Bizet).