The American Center for Puccini Studies has active outreach and educational programs, serving schools, adult education programs, service organizations, and community centers throughout Northwest Iowa.
PROGRAMS AVAILABLE
She Is Music
The music and artistry of women composers through the ages.
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Bastien and Bastienne
Music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Mozart meets Seinfeld meets The Three Stooges! This charmingly insouciant chamber opera of about an hour, sends-up every operatic and social convention and gives everyone a good laugh at Life and Love opera-style! A shepherdess, her addle-brained shepherd, and the village flim-flam man collide and collude in this cheeky new English translation by ACPS Founding Artistic Director, Dr. Harry N. Dunstan. CLICK HERE TO BOOK THIS PROGRAM! |
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Cinderella
by Pauline Viardot
Enchanting, Ravishing, Sophisticated, and always CHARMING, this lighthearted musical adaption of the world’s most popular fairy tale surrounds Cinderella with a wonderful palette of colorful character – a bumbling father, selfish sisters, a protective and exuberant Godmother, and a Charming Prince who trades identities with his chamberlain. Written in 1904 by one of the world’s greatest musical geniuses, Pauline Viardot, the story is told through the use of seven soloists and a pianist. Viardot’s sumptuous score weaves soaring melodies and voluptuous textures into an intimate fireside story that delivers an empowering message of INNER STRENGTH AND BEAUTY that is far ahead of its time! The performance features the new English performing edition by Dr. Harry N. Dunstan, Founding Artistic Director of the American Center for Puccini Studies, and is sung by ACPS Emerging Artists. This hour-long story is sure to CHARM!
by Pauline Viardot
Enchanting, Ravishing, Sophisticated, and always CHARMING, this lighthearted musical adaption of the world’s most popular fairy tale surrounds Cinderella with a wonderful palette of colorful character – a bumbling father, selfish sisters, a protective and exuberant Godmother, and a Charming Prince who trades identities with his chamberlain. Written in 1904 by one of the world’s greatest musical geniuses, Pauline Viardot, the story is told through the use of seven soloists and a pianist. Viardot’s sumptuous score weaves soaring melodies and voluptuous textures into an intimate fireside story that delivers an empowering message of INNER STRENGTH AND BEAUTY that is far ahead of its time! The performance features the new English performing edition by Dr. Harry N. Dunstan, Founding Artistic Director of the American Center for Puccini Studies, and is sung by ACPS Emerging Artists. This hour-long story is sure to CHARM!
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Opera:60
Bite-sized versions of your favorite operas! Catch the flavor of an opera in just 60 minutes! La bohème Tosca Madama Butterfly Le villi Edgar Manon Lescaut La rondine plus Carmen La traviata Zanetto (by Mascagni) CLICK HERE TO BOOK THIS PROGRAM! |
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Mozart's Women/Mozart's Men
Music of Mozart's most famous characters
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Music of Mozart's most famous characters
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Classes & Workshops
Opera Anatomy: How to really enjoy an opera!
How to Listen to Music and REALLY get it!
The World of Giacomo Puccini
The Secret Love Songs of Puccini
Puccini and the Twilight of Italian Opera
Music and Culture in 19th Century Italy
Giuseppe Verdi: An Introduction to the Man and his Music
Giuseppe Verdi and the Creation of Italy’s Modern International Voice
The Italians: from Dante to Dean Martin
The History of the Operatic Tenor
Was Mozart Murdered?
Lorenzo DaPonte: The Most Interesting Man in the World and How He Created Mozart's Three Best Operas
The History of Opera in Paris from the Ancien Régime to the Second Empire or Napoleon goes to the Opera!
Enrico Caruso: The Greatest Singer in History. An Aural Telling of His Life, Times, & Artistry
The Song of Shakespeare
Opera Anatomy: How to really enjoy an opera!
How to Listen to Music and REALLY get it!
The World of Giacomo Puccini
The Secret Love Songs of Puccini
Puccini and the Twilight of Italian Opera
Music and Culture in 19th Century Italy
Giuseppe Verdi: An Introduction to the Man and his Music
Giuseppe Verdi and the Creation of Italy’s Modern International Voice
The Italians: from Dante to Dean Martin
The History of the Operatic Tenor
Was Mozart Murdered?
Lorenzo DaPonte: The Most Interesting Man in the World and How He Created Mozart's Three Best Operas
The History of Opera in Paris from the Ancien Régime to the Second Empire or Napoleon goes to the Opera!
Enrico Caruso: The Greatest Singer in History. An Aural Telling of His Life, Times, & Artistry
The Song of Shakespeare
Our First Mondays Series
featured on Montgomery Community Media Channel 21, received multiple media awards including:
Most Creative Series in Field Television (2017)
Most Productive Producer in Field Television (2016)
Councilwoman Nancy Navarro (Montgomery County, MD) Special Citation of Extraordinary Achievement (2016, 2017)
featured on Montgomery Community Media Channel 21, received multiple media awards including:
Most Creative Series in Field Television (2017)
Most Productive Producer in Field Television (2016)
Councilwoman Nancy Navarro (Montgomery County, MD) Special Citation of Extraordinary Achievement (2016, 2017)
