Shattering Stereotypes Instead of Glass: Opera and “Showing Us Our Own Face”

February 13, 2020
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To many 21st century Americans, opera might conjure images of women in horned helmets belting out screechy songs in incomprehensible languages., and shattering panes of glass in the process. This stereotype has its origins in the German composer Richard Wagner’s operas with stories based in Norse mythology, and it is an exaggeration of only a […]

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18th Century London: Händel and His Contemporaries

July 19, 2018
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This post was written by Simone Hawkins, Reference Assistant in Research Services. She is pursuing her Bachelor’s Degree in Music here at George Mason University and Baroque music is her area of interest. Complementing our first #musicmonday post, which highlighted Georg Friedrich Händel’s very famous set of orchestral suites entitled The Celebrated Water Musick (M1003.H22 W3 […]

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