All Lectures in Meeting Room 1 on the following Sundays at 2:30 p.m.
All Lectures in Meeting Room 1 on the following Sundays at 2:30 p.m.
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Violetta is Paris’s most sought-after courtesan, living a life of empty pleasure. When she finds real love with her adored Alfredo, his father begs her to give him up to save the family name.
Lecturer Carla ThorpeThe true-to-life tale of struggling young artists living in Paris’s Latin Quarter. At its center is the love story of poet Rodolfo and the vulnerable seamstress Mimì.
Lecturer Nancy CarlsonIt’s 48 B.C. and Caesar is Rome’s supreme commander. Now he’s out to conquer Egypt. Egypt’s current ruler, Ptolemy, wants to impress Caesar, but his sister Cleopatra has plans of her own.
Lecturer George MeschelThe lovely Empress–part celestial being, part human–needs to have a child or her husband will be turned to stone and she’ll be whisked back to the spirit realm.
Lecturer Margaret FournierIt’s three weeks before scientists test the A-Bomb in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The audience watches as real people grapple with the monumental moral and ethical dilemmas.
Lecturer Ann GrimesSir John, an old knight, sends identical love letters to two married women. They and their husbands decide to teach him a lesson and hang him out to dry.
Lecturer Loretta CaputoAlmaviva is the man of Rosina’s dreams and he even wants to marry her, but her crusty old guardian thinks he should be her husband. It’s time to enlist help–and Figaro, the barber of Seville–is the man for the job.
Lecturer Belinda PotomaEugene Onegin is a playboy who tarries with the sweet country girl Tatyana. Years pass and he falls in love with Tatyana, but she leaves him in despair.
Lecturer Barbara DeBolt