Study Abroad Program Offers “Russian Music and Culture” June 16 – July 6, 2010

To view a brochure about the program, click Russia-Music.pdf.

Music and Identity in Russia Today is a three-week, 15-credit intensive summer program in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Students will attend concerts and opera performances, meet with the world-renown musicians and teachers (voice and instruments, depending on the participants’ interests), study different facets of opera production, listen to lectures on the current status of music in post-Soviet Russian culture and society. Students who participated in this program in the past considered the cultural and social experience gained in Russia to be life transforming, powerful, unique, and most beautiful. Study Abroad program is one of the facets distinguishing our students on both personal and professional levels. 

In Moscow and St. Petersburg, the students will:

 • Attend performances and rehearsals at the world acclaimed and the newly emerged concert halls and opera houses, including Mariinsky, Bolshoy, Gelikon Opera, New Opera;

 • Meet with the world-famous performers (such as Valery Gergiev and Galina Vishnevskaya), stage directors and designers, producers, composers, critics, teachers, and music business people;

 • Visit museums (Hermitage, The Russian Museum, Tret’yakov Gallery, museums-apartments of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Shaliapin);

 • Exciting excursions and sightseeing trips;

 • Interview people in the audience;

 • Meet Russian students.

The program is open to both undergraduate and graduate students.  

Program fee includes roundtrip airfare, train tickets, accommodation, theater and museum admissions, lectures, excursions, visa processing, some meals. Financial aid available: consult Office of International Affairs, Leslie Anderson at <anderson.846@osu.edu>. 

The knowledge of Russian is not required. Translations will be provided. 

Application deadline: February 1, 2010

First informational meeting: October 14, 2009, 4:30 pm, Hughes 216 

Arts Scholars grant: application deadline is October 31, 2009. For other grants contact Leslie Anderson at <anderson.846@osu.edu>. 

Prerequisite: Music 674.  Russian Opera, Meaning, and Identity OR permission by instructor, Professor Margarita Mazo.