ESU Departments of Music and Theatre to Present Talk, “The School for Lovers and Why was Opera so Important to Mozart”

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During his prolific musical career, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed more than 600 memorable works while also working as a performer and conductor. From all of these musical endeavors, Mozart himself would consider the composition of operas to be his most important professional activity.

In a talk, “The School for Lovers and Why was Opera so Important to Mozart,” opera enthusiast Eugene Galperin, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, will discuss Mozart’s dramatic art and emotional reach and his ability to breathe life, depth and humanity into archetypal characters.

The presentation will be on Monday, April 21, at 7 p.m. in the Dale Snow Theatre of ESU’s Fine and Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets. It is open to the public at no cost.

The talk, the sixth presentation of the lecture series, “Why Opera Still is Relevant Today,” is geared toward people with little or no knowledge of opera and will provide an introduction to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s opera, “Cosi Fan Tutte,” one of the Metropolitan Opera’s Live-In-HD series designed to make outstanding opera productions accessible to audiences throughout the world.

“Cosi fan Tutte” will be screened Saturday, April 26, at 12:55 p.m. and Wednesday, April 30, at 6:30 p.m. at Cinemark Theater in the Stroud Mall.

“These broadcasts have been going on for years and most students haven’t been aware,” Galperin said. “I attempted to spark some interest and increase attendance of these broadcasts. After my previous five talks during the past year, several students and community members attended the broadcast for the first time. That was encouraging, and I would like to keep it going.”

The program is being sponsored by ESU’s Departments of Music and Theatre. For more information, please call Galperin at 570-422-3931.