Profs & Pints Baltimore: A Night at the Opera House
Wed, Nov 19
|Guilford Hall Brewery
Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “A Night at the Opera House,” on the classic design and mass construction of a performance space found throughout the world, with Laura Vasilyeva, associate professor of music history at JHU’s Peabody Institute and author of Opera and the Built Environment.
Time & Location
Nov 19, 2025, 6:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Guilford Hall Brewery, 1611 Guilford Ave, Baltimore, MD 21202, USA
About the event
Event Details
Profs and Pints Baltimore presents: “A Night at the Opera House,” on the classic design and mass construction of a performance space found throughout the world, with Laura Vasilyeva, associate professor of music history at Johns Hopkins University’s Peabody Institute and author of Opera and the Built Environment.
[Doors open at 5. The talk starts at 6:30. The room is open seating.]
Even those who have never entered a classic Italian opera house, or teatro all’italiana, are likely to have some familiarity with its iconic look and feel. Its architectural form has been described as one of the most stable ever designed for musical performance, so successful that it was reproduced thousands of times in the 1800s alone and exists on five continents.
What is it about this building design that gives it such appeal and staying power?
Hear that question tackled by Laura Vasilyeva, a researcher of…