topics include: baroque: 'The Prince as Death, Beast & Tyrant'/Monteverdi's Orfeo, Ulisse, & Poppea
early classical: 'The Dialectic of Operatic Civilization'/Mozart's Don Giovanni
late classical: 'Opera & Revolutionary Virtue'/Beethoven's Fidelio
romantic: 'The Utopian Vision of Romatnic Anticapitalism'/Wagner's Parsifal
early modernist: 'The Politics of Psychological Interiorization'/ Strauss's Elektra & Shcoenberg's Erwartung
late modernist: 'The Aesthetic Politics of German Artist-Opera/Pfitzner's Paelstrina, Hindemith's Mathis der Maler, & Schoenberg's Moses & Aron
postmodernist: Henze's The Bassarids
Michael Hoover