# Opera and the City

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Roger Parker FBA
- Year: 2006
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History, Music
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/opera-and-city)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

This lecture begins the Opera and The City series with a journey back to the very earliest years of Italian opera, exploring the relationship between the composer Claudio Monteverdi and Venice. Old-fashioned histories of the “birth” of opera tended to imagine the genre’s gradual emergence as a majestic grand tour through famous Italian cultural centres, but this perspective has now become old-fashioned.

## Lectures

1. [Monteverdi and Venice](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-opera-and-city/93301110418c) (YouTube)
2. [Handel and London](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-opera-and-city/d9c160ce67f3) (YouTube)
3. [Mozart and Vienna](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-opera-and-city/322700043d68) (YouTube)
4. [Donizetti and Paris](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-opera-and-city/1c36814da163) (YouTube)
5. [Verdi and Milan](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-opera-and-city/a03c0a3f2048) (YouTube)
6. [Puccini and New York](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-opera-and-city/2f6a8eee98d7) (YouTube)