Davee Media Library

During the challenging times of a pandemic, a young, unemployed musician—embodied in the character La Musica—takes initiative, reaching out to friends and colleagues.

Jesse Rosenberg, associate professor of musicology, discusses opera in the time of lockdown. His lecture explores historical perspectives in the current crisis affecting the field of live opera.

Bienen School of Music faculty members Stephen Alltop and Joachim Schamberger discuss the extraordinary challenge and opportunity of creating an entirely remote recording and filming of Monteverdi’s Orfeo.

A Zoom discussion of Claudio Monteverdi's opera "L'Orfeo," now a Northwestern University Opera Theater project in progress entitled "Orfeo Remote." This event was presented as part of the Evelyn Dunbar Memorial Early Music Festival.

The Bienen School presented the Chicago-area premiere of David T. Little's Dog Days November 21–24, 2019, in the Ryan Center’s Shirley Welsh Ryan Opera Theater.

Expertly blending elements of comedy and tragedy, Mozart’s classic opera follows the adventures of the notorious libertine Don Giovanni, against the backdrop of present-day New York.

Composer Jake Heggie coaches Bienen School students Eric McConnell, Kaileigh Riess, Maxwell Seifert, Kevin Krasinski, Sam Grosby, and Gabrielle Barkidjija in the Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall as part of the Robert M. and Maya L.

Northwestern University Opera Theater presents “Le nozze di Figaro” – Mozart’s classic comic tale of love, intrigue, morals, and mischief –  directed by Michael M. Ehrman.