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HUM 112 Week 5 Discussion
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Week 5 Discussion Opera and Society
Please respond to each of the following questions, using sources and the textbook as the basis of your response:
1. Using the text as a source and/or the web links listed below, choose an opera by Verdi, or Wagner, or Puccini, give a brief description of the plot and characters.   What changes would you make to the plot or characters or storyline to update this opera make it more interesting?  Â
Huizenga article and audio selections at http://www.npr.org/blogs/deceptivecadence/2012/04/11/150420827/talk-like-an-opera-geek-how-verdi-wagner-and-puccini-got-their-grooves
Wagner video of a stage production (Tristan und Isolde) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OAEkTK6aKUM
Verdi video clip of stage production (Rigoletto) at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFFVfMQto5o and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10R2TzsQLwsÂ
Puccini video clip of stage production (Tosca) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sSoKbv46zc and a quick overview of Tosca  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-W5brvUUqk
An overall website about operas:Â Â https://www.theopera101.com/Â (copy and paste the link into a new tab or window to make it live)Â
2. Person of the week:   This week your choices are between Claude Monet, and Edouard Manet, artists who broke new ground in France with their painting techniques.   Look at the pictures and information in our text and online and then tell us which person you feel is more important and why.Â
Here are some links about them Monet https://www.britannica.com/biography/Claude-Monet and Manet https://www.manet.org/
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