Designed to provide a basic understanding for undergraduate singers (freshmen and sophomores) of how to prepare and perform appropriate selections from the operatic repertoire, with a dual focus on stagecraft and musical preparation. Class performance projects include recitative, staged operatic arias and opera scenes. Admission by audition. This course is part of a Hub sequence, MP 237 and MP 238, and may be completed non-sequentially. Effective Fall 2022, completion of MP 237 and MP 238 fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area: Creativity/Innovation.

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