ESU Hosts Presentation on Metropolitan Opera Live in HD Broadcast: Otello

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Some operatic masterworks possess such dramatic intensity and emotional depth that they prove immediately accessible and captivating to even those who have never been to a theater. Giuseppe Verdi’s Otello, with its universally relevant themes of love, jealousy, and good versus evil, is one of opera’s most magnetic works. Based on Shakespeare’s poignant tragedy, Othello, Verdi’s opera is considered by many to be the greatest Italian opera ever created.

Opera enthusiast Eugene Galperin, Ph.D., an associate professor of mathematics at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, will explore this timeless masterpiece in a presentation, “Music Drama at its Best: Shakespeare, Verdi, and Otello.”

The presentation, open to the public at no cost, will be at 7 p.m. Thursday, October 8, in the Niedbala Auditorium of the ESU Science and Technology Center. It is being sponsored by PRSSA ESU. For more information on the talk, please call Galperin at 570-422-3931.

Geared toward people with little or no knowledge of opera, the presentation will provide an introduction to Otello, one of the Metropolitan Opera’s Live-In-HD performances designed to make outstanding opera productions accessible to audiences throughout the world.

Otello will be screened Saturday, October 17, at 12:55 p.m. and Wednesday, October 21 at 6:30 p.m. at Cinemark Theater in the Stroud Mall.

The ESU presentation is sponsored by the Public Relations Student Society of America. For more information on the talk, please call Dr. Galperin at 570-422-3931.