While the movie has lived on in infamy, the novel is very different, exploring and enhancing themes that are more insidious than ghosts and a haunted hotel. Title: All Work and No Play: Stephen King’s The Shining (1977) and What Keeps Us Up at Nightĭescription: Stephen King’s third novel The Shining appeared to public acclaim in 1977 its popularity all but ensured a film adaptation, which came out three years later in 1980, directed by Stanley Kubrick. Let’s look at this for an evening and take in its beauty and meaning. The art of the “Night Visitors” who surprised Amahl and his mother is Modern, Ancient, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Post-Modern. Opera Dives Deep: Amahl and the Night Visitorsĭescription: Art depicting, interpreting, and illuminating the Magi narrative within the Nativity Story is global, arising from all continents-Africa, Asia, Europe, North, Central and South America. Dumas fils was caught between the moral watchdogs of mid-19th-century Realism and his profligate father who had written over-the-top Romantic dramas of the 1830s. Paris society was shocked by both the realism and the romanticization of a fallen woman.
Title: The Lady of the Camellias: The Romantic and The Realĭescription: Alexandre Dumas fils wrote his novel and play– both titled La Dame aux camélias – after the death of his mistress Marie Duplessis ( née Alphonsine Plessis). Raffaele Cipriano presents an interactive lecture exploring the music of Verdi’s beloved opera. Composer Giuseppe Verdi’s writing for the orchestra yields a rich display of interwoven themes crafted to highlight the voices and paint a sound-portrait of the complex characters on the stage, especially the main character Violetta. Title: La Traviata: Painting a Musical Portraitĭescription:Premiered nearly 170 years ago, La traviata and its music continue to endure. This talk explores Violetta then and now, acknowledging the tensions that surrounded her creation while celebrating her reincarnations in our own popular imagination.
While celebrated as a muse and icon today within the worlds of film and high fashion, the lead character of Violetta was critiqued in her early inception, with issues of characterization, identity, and body image at center stage. Title: Stage to Screen and in Between: Violetta and La traviata in Contemporary Popular Cultureĭescription: With its beautiful, flawed, and virtuosic heroine, Verdi’s La traviata has been staple in the operatic repertory since its premiere nearly 170 years ago. Opera Dives Deep (formerly At Ease with Opera) is held at the Kauffman Foundation Conference Center, Brookside Room, 4801 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110. Both established opera goers and curious newcomers alike are sure to make discoveries.
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