Dartmouth at the Opera
New York, NY
Friday, January 15, 2016
Fordham University, Metropolitan Opera
Join Professor Steve Swayne, Dartmouth alumni, family and friends for a live performance of Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera at the Lincoln Center. This special event will not only include tickets for the performance, but also a cocktail reception and pre-performance lecture by professor Swayne.
“The stories that happen on these operatic stages are our stories, told in a language—music—that exceeds the capacity of human words to convey,” says Steve Swayne, the Jacob H. Strauss 1922 Professor of Music and Chair of the Music Department at Dartmouth. “That’s why opera matters, across classes, across cultures.”
During the 2015 fall term, Professor Swayne is teaching “Introduction to Italian Opera”—the third DartmouthX massive open online course, or MOOC, that the College has produced in conjunction with the nonprofit online learning consortium edX. Swayne says “OperaX” has something to offer for both opera neophytes and those with prior knowledge.
We recommend that you take the course and then join us for this very special live event in New York.
Program
5 p.m. Welcome and Registration, Fordham University
5:15–6:15 p.m. Presentation by Steve Swayne
6:15–7:30 p.m. Reception with dinner buffet and open bar of beer and wine
7:30 p.m. Depart for Metropolitan Opera
8 p.m. Performance of Turandot begins
Pricing
Orchestra Prime: $250 sold out
Dress Circle Prime 1: $175 sold out
Dress Circle Balance: $150 sold out
Balcony Prime 1: $130 sold out
Family Circle Prime 1: $90 sold out
Young Alumni Family Circle Prime 1 (2005-2015): $45 sold out
This event is hosted by the Office of Alumni Relations in partnership with the Dartmouth Club of New York. To learn more about Dartmouth on Location programs, please contact us at (603) 646-9159 or ar.ace@dartmouth.edu.
(Top image courtesy of The Metropolitan Opera.)