Opera Overtures and Previews

Learn More about Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet with Dr. Sam Dorf

You’ll Find Him Informative, Passionate and Humorously Irreverant!

Sunday, February 12, 2012 – 5 p.m.
Books & Company at The Greene, I-675 & E. Dorothy Lane

Thursday, February 16, 2012 – 6:00 p.m.
Dayton Visual Arts Center, 118 N. Jefferson St., Downtown Dayton

Tuesday, February 21, 2012 – 7 p.m.
Trinity Presbyterian Church, 3211 Lakeview Ave., Dayton

Friday, February 24, 2012 – 7 p.m.
Mead Theatre @ the Schuster Center before the performance

Sunday, February 26, 2012 – 2 p.m.
Mead Theatre @ the Schuster Center before the performance

ABOUT DR. SAMUEL DORF, PhD

Originally from Brookline, MA, Sam came to Dayton to join the faculty of the University of Dayton as a professor in the College of Arts & Sciences.  He received his BA/BM in musicology from Boston University, his Masters from Tufts University and his PhD from Northwestern University in 2009.

His research areas include intersections between musicology and the history of technology, reception studies, film studies, and the history of performance practice.  He has received awards, grants and fellowships from Northwestern and Harvard Universities, the Society of Dance History Scholars and the American Musicological Society.

Sam’s interest in opera began while at Tufts where he developed a passion for exploring opera from a performative perspective (stagings) and includes a Wagner fetish.  He is most interested in exploring the continually evolving meanings of works as they are re-performed and re-imagined on stage.   Opera for Sam is all about performance – the experience – live or mediated through the TV, a MET HD broadcast or on your twitter feed.

He truly has a passion for opera and is enthusiastic about joining Dayton Opera’s lecture series.

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