Subject Guides

Subject Guides

Subject Guides provide instructors, students, and librarians with a simple shortcut to help them find the material they need across a number of topics.

18th and 19th Century Ballet Study Questions

18th and 19th Century Ballet Study Questions

Help students think critically about 18th and 19th century ballet with these study questions covering Giselle, The Sleeping Beauty, and Frederick Ashton’s The Dream.

20th and 21st Century Ballet Study Questions

20th and 21st Century Ballet Study Questions

Enrich essays and seminar discussions with these questions focused on Akram Khan's Giselle, the neoclassical works of George Balanchine, and Dmitri Shostakovich's The Golden Age.

Is Fashion Art?

Is Fashion Art?

In this playlist, we will look at this question from the designer’s perspective, exploring whether or not some of the world’s most famous fashion designers chose to classify themselves under the moniker of “artist”.

Hamlet, Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 2017

Shakespeare in Opera

Shakespeare's plays have been rich sources of operatic inspiration, but operas are not just scores and librettos - visual aspects of staged productions can give us new ways of hearing and understanding Shakespeare-based operas.

Woman in bright pink Hispanic dress with flowers

Hispanic and Latin American Artists

Distinct for their use of vibrant colours, rhythmic, body-moving melodies, and the blending of ancestral traditions with modern art styles, Latinx artists have made a lasting impact around the world.

Cendrillon (Glyndebourne, 2019)

Opera: Women's stories, directed by women

This playlist compiles operas that tell the story of a woman’s life, all of which were composed by men, and invites viewers to explore the ways in which these stories are given new contexts and new life when directed by women.