More on the Evolution of Operas

This class we talked more about some of the famous operas throughout the past few centuries and how they have evolved with the changing times: from Wagner to Strauss to the turn of the 20th century when the radical ideas of the time (ie Sigmund Freud and the Oedipus and Elektra Complex) played out in more bizarre operas such as the biblical story of Solome and her obsessive love for John the Baptist. It was interesting to be able to associate familiar opera tunes that I have heard countless times before with the opera they are actually from, such as the "Flower duet" from Lakme's Elektra.