Week 1

Ÿ Aida (1871)

Ÿ Origins of grand opera

Week 2

Ÿ Rossini: William Tell (1829)

Ÿ Halevy: La Juive (1835)

Ÿ Meyerbeer: Les Hugenots (1836)

Week 3

Ÿ Wagner: Rienzi (1842)

Ÿ Glinka: Ruslan and Lyudmilla (1842)

Ÿ Verdi: Jerusalem (1847)

Week 4

Ÿ Berlioz: Les Troyens (1863)

Ÿ Meyerbeer: L’Africaine (1865)

Week 5

Ÿ Verdi: Don Carlos (1867)

Ÿ Gounod: Faust (1869)

Week 6

Ÿ Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (1874)

Ÿ Ponichielli: La Gioconda (1874)

Week 7

Ÿ Saint-Saens: Samson and Dalila (1877)

Ÿ Borodin: Prince Igor (1890)

Week 8

Ÿ Massenet: Thais (1893)

Ÿ Rimsky-Korsakov: Sadko (1898)