Verdi is the most influential Italian opera composer of the later 19th century. This course will examine his life through a detailed study of his major operas, including Nabucco, Rigoletto, La Traviata, Aida, Otello and Falstaff.
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Do you struggle to grab the reader's attention? Learn the craft of suspense: create compelling characters, make every scene tense, raise the stakes, and plant clues. Whatever your genre, you'll discover how to keep readers turning the page.
You will have the opportunity to revise, refine, and arrange your poetry in the workshops of this course, and you will be taught the techniques you need to become a discerning editor of your own and others’ work.
A comprehensive introduction and historical framework to the rich, diverse, artistic, architectural, and cultural legacy of Andalucía, Spain's most southerly region, produced between about 750 and 1550 CE, but with reference to its more ancient history.
Robert Harris's Conclave and the election of Pope Leo XIV drew attention to the Sistine Chapel and architecture in the traditions of the Vatican. We will trace this from Early Christian building to the fabulous works of Michelangelo, Raphael and Bernini.
How did three sisters living apparently secluded, eventless lives write such original, passionate and dramatic literature? This course is for anyone who has read or would like to read the work of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë.
This introductory course will explore the main stylistic and iconographic themes in Islamic art and highlight the diversity of its expressions.
Deepen your understanding of Early Renaissance to High Renaissance art, the role of patronage, and how the Renaissance continues to influence modern creativity.
This course aims to give students an introduction and overview of that architectural tradition enabling students to 'read' the architecture of the contemporary built environment in a critically informed way.
Literary theory offers powerful tools for understanding how texts work and why they matter. This course introduces key ideas in an accessible way, showing how theory can deepen your appreciation and enjoyment of literature.
How did artists respond when protest, war, empire, and industrialisation transformed France? This course explores how painters from Boucher to Manet reimagined art in relation to modern life.
Become a more attentive, appreciative and critical reader of literary texts on this weekly class in Oxford, with an emphasis on close critical analysis.