Date: Thursday, January 26, 2012 - Thursday, March 1, 2012. Time: 12:30 PM (Doors Open), 1:00 PM (Show Starts). Ticket Price: $250. Lecture Series on the Operas, Art, and History of Venice Iain Scott, Bonnie Shettler, Mary Redekop Make cheques payable to OPERA IS Join us for “Six Weeks in Venice”, a series of six profusely illustrated lectures on the history, art and opera of this glorious city at Aeolian Hall, 795 Dundas St E, in London. The lecturers will be Iain Scott, well-known opera tour-guide and lecturer for Opera America, Opera Guilds International, the Wagner Society of America, the Smithsonian Institute, the Canadian Opera Company, and many other venues; Mary Redekop, art historian, award-winning faculty member at the University of Toronto, frequent lecturer for the U of T Alumni Association and the guide on over seventy European and Central Asian tours focusing on art history; and Bonnie Shettler, historian and lecturer on Venice who is currently writing a series of novels set in Venice. The dates, topics and lecturers are as follows: * January 26, 2012: The History of Venice : From Founding to Fall: Bonnie Shettler * February 2: Venetian Architecture: Churches and Palaces: Mary Redekop * February 9: Operas Set in Venice: Iain Scott * February 16: The Cultural History of Venice : From Nobili to Popolari: Bonnie Shettler * February 23: Operas Premiered in Venice: Iain Scott * March 1: Venetian Painting: Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque: Mary Redekop Lectures will begin at 1:00 and end at 3:30. The fee for the six lectures is $250.00 payable in one instalment at the Aeolian Hall in person, by mail or by email. For more information and a registration form, please contact Mary Redekop at maryredekop@sympatico.ca. Make cheques payable to OPERA IS Click Here to Download PDF of Registration Form