Get a Handel on It! Examining the Portrayal of Roles in Baroque Opera
The focus of my project is to explore Baroque Opera in a historically informed way. This means exploring the vocal technique performers could have used, as well as the costumes, staging and set during the Baroque period: around 1650 - 1750 CE. I hope that by doing this, we can learn more about the ways opera came about and developed, not just as a vocal genre, but as an art form. My project will be presenting a historically informed performance of select Baroque operatic repertoire to the Crane School of Music in the Spring 2027 semester.