{"id":15404,"date":"2017-03-03T09:44:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quantumnew.esu.edu\/insider\/?p=15404"},"modified":"2017-03-03T09:44:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T14:44:54","slug":"provosts-colloquium-series-continues-with-la-traviata-the-worlds-most-beloved-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/provosts-colloquium-series-continues-with-la-traviata-the-worlds-most-beloved-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"Provost\u2019s Colloquium Series Continues with La Traviata: The World\u2019s Most Beloved Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of East Stroudsburg University\u2019s Spring 2017 Provost\u2019s Colloquium Series, Opera enthusiasts Eugene Galperin, associate professor of mathematics, and James Maroney, associate professor of music, will give a talk titled <em>La Traviata: The World\u2019s Most Beloved Opera<\/em> on Wednesday, March 8 at 5:30 -7:00 p.m. in the Cecilia S. Cohen Recital Hall of ESU\u2019s Fine and Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg.<\/p>\n<p>The talk will address misconceptions that opera is an elite art form detached from the modern world or that it is available only to those in a few select cities.<\/p>\n<p>One of the mainstays of <em>La Traviata<\/em> is a gripping tale of love, devotion, and sacrifice. Due to its memorable tunes and dramatic story, it is a perfect introduction into the genre for somebody who has never been to an opera theater.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation will focus on the <em>La Traviata\u2019s<\/em> cultural and historical background, the life and music of Giuseppe Verdi, on the development of operatic verismo, and some of <em>La Traviata\u2019s<\/em> most memorable arias and ensembles.<\/p>\n<p>It will also provide an introduction to the upcoming broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera\u2019s Live-In-HD Series designed to make outstanding opera productions accessible to audiences throughout the world.\u00a0 The Met Live-In-HD broadcast of <em>La Traviata<\/em> will be screened Saturday, March 11, at 12:55 p.m. and Wednesday, March 15, at 6:30 p.m. at Cinemark Theater in the Stroud Mall.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation is the third in the ESU Provost&#8217;s Colloquium Series\u2019 spring lineup.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the ESU Provost\u2019s Colloquium Series, contact Christina McDonald, director, office of sponsored projects and research, at (570) 422-7954 or at <a href=\"mailto:cmcdonald9@esu.edu\">cmcdonald9@esu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of East Stroudsburg University\u2019s Spring 2017 Provost\u2019s Colloquium Series, Opera enthusiasts Eugene Galperin, associate professor of mathematics, and James Maroney, associate professor of music, will give a talk titled <em>La Traviata: The World\u2019s Most Beloved Opera<\/em> on Wednesday, March 8 at 5:30 -7:00 p.m. in the Cecilia S. Cohen Recital Hall of ESU\u2019s Fine and Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-ospr-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15404"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15407,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15404\/revisions\/15407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}