• Develops literacy, vocabulary, geography, history!
• Exposes the student to great composers lives and works!
• Fun, creative hands-on work!
• Develops critical thinking skills!
• Develops study in a self-determined manner!

The greatest composers of opera, their history and their works. Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti, Gounod, Wagner, Verdi, Bizet, Puccini, Richard Strauss, Britten, Adams and Webber, plus operetta composers Herbert, Friml, Romberg, Gilbert & Sullivan. Their lives and their works, dozens of works, are unveiled, and the world of opera explained. Many dozens of links lead the student to performances of arias, instrumental works, and complete operas, often performed by some of the greatest musicians of the 20th century!

The course comes complete with test and answer guide, and is a full 49 lessons! A complete introduction to the drama and great music of opera.

Composers and concepts covered include:

• What is music?
• What is Opera?
• The history of Opera
• Monteverdi
• Mozart
• Romanticism
• Beethoven
• Rossini
• Donizetti
• Bellini
• Gounod
• Wagner
• Verdi
• Bizet
• Offenbach
• Gilbert and Sullivan
• Lehar
• Friml
• Romberg
• Herbert
• Puccini
• Richard Strauss
• Britten
• Adams
• Webber