ESU Professors, Eugene Galperin, Ph.D., Talks Mozart, October 16

Posted by: admin on October 6, 2014, One Comment

Editor’s Note: The location of this event has changed from Dale Snow Theatre of ESUs Fine and Performing Arts Center to Stroud Hall, Room 117. ESU Professor, Eugene Galperin, Ph.D., will discuss Mozart at the new location on Thursday, October 16 at 7:30 p.m.

Opera enthusiast Eugene Galperin, Ph.D., assistant professor of mathematics at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, will discuss Mozart’s musical adaptation of Pierre de Beaumarchais’s revolutionary play, “The Marriage of Figaro: the Play, the Opera, and Their Impact” on Thursday, October 16 at 7:30 p.m. The talk will take place in Stroud Hall, Room 117. Galperin will discuss how Beaumarchais’s play helped foment two of the greatest revolutions in history: how it was censored in Vienna and how Mozart plugged the revolutionary content back into the opera by purely musical means.

“It sometimes happens that a great work of art takes its genre to a whole new level, unimaginable at the time of its creation, rarely equaled, and never surpassed,” Galperin noted. “This is precisely what happened when Mozart created Le Nozze di Figaro, arguably the most perfect opera in the repertoire.”

Mozart’s skill at creating dramatic vocal ensembles and his deft musical characterizations will be highlighted in the talk, which will include YouTube clips of some of the most reputable tunes of all time.

The talk is intended as an introduction to the upcoming Metropolitan Opera HD broadcasts of Le Nozze di Figaro at the Cinemark Theater at the Stroud Mall on Saturday, October 18 at 12:55 p.m. and Wednesday, October 22 at 6:30 p.m.

The presentation at ESU is open to the public at no cost. The program is being sponsored by the ESU Departments of Music and Theatre. For more information, please call Galperin at 570-422-3931.

One Response to “ESU Professors, Eugene Galperin, Ph.D., Talks Mozart, October 16”

Carlos Camacho

Posted October 7, 2014 at 9:53 AM

Wow! This is truly awesome, Professor!
Although I do not know much about opera, I do enjoy listening to works by Mozart and other classical legends, usually on a Sunday morning.
I am honored to be a student in your class.
Carlos C.