Week 1 August 10-16, 2014

• Learn more about opera music
  • Listen to 1 opera per day this week
  • Read something about the opera, the composer, the singer
  • Day 1 - Spossa son disprezzata, I am wife and I am scorned, sung by Cecilia Bertolli
    • Italian aria written by Geminiano Giacomelli
    • Taken from Giacomelli's opera La Merope
    • Used in Antonio Vivaldi's pasticcio Bajazet
      • Realizations: Pain can be beautiful
      • most beautiful things begin from pain, like life, growth after someone leaves you