Performing opera at Princeton

Video feature: Performing opera at Princeton: An interdisciplinary experience .

For students who want to study and perform opera, coming to Princeton University allows them to pursue their musical interests while broadening their intellect with a liberal arts education. A wide variety of opera styles are studied and performed by Princeton students, and early opera (especially from the Baroque period) is a particular strength that has emerged from the Department of Music.

Being composed: The art of learning to write music .

What does composing music look like? At Princeton, composition is taught at the undergraduate and graduate level. In this story, four members of the Department of Music describe their creative process, the surprising upside of learning composition at a liberal arts university versus a conservatory, and the challenges and rewards of developing and performing new work. You can also view video clips of a work-in-progress by senior Stephanie Leotsakos and new works by Assistant Professor of Music Donnacha Dennehy and graduate student Yuri Boguinia.

'Gardens in China and Japan' .

A highlight of the spring 2014 course "Gardens in China and Japan" was a weeklong trip to Kyoto, Japan, to visit gardens and temples. This video captures the group's experiences in Japan through photographs taken by several of the students and interviews with the professors and students.

Festival of the Arts brings together community, campus to fête new Lewis Arts complex .

During a four-day Festival of the Arts, Oct. 5-8, Princeton University celebrated the opening of the new Lewis Arts complex with more than 100 events, taking audiences on a journey of the arts through the ages and around the world.

Herrera bridges Latinx culture and popular performance at Princeton .

Brian Herrera, an assistant professor of theater in the Lewis Center for the Arts, came to Princeton in 2012 from the University of New Mexico, where he taught world theater history and performance theory. His 2015 book, "Latin Numbers: Playing Latino in Twentieth-Century U.S.

Video feature: 'Hero': The making of a senior thesis .

Eamon Foley, a member of the Class of 2015, was an anthropology major who also earned a certificate in theater. For his theater thesis, he blended his academic studies in ethnography — the process of studying a culture through observation and interviews — with his professional experience as a performer to create an original theater-dance piece titled "Hero." The show tells the story of a young man transformed by his experiences in the Vietnam War through indie rock music, dance and aerial choreography.

Video feature: 'The Psychology of Humor' .

Adam Mastroianni is serious about humor. He graduated in June with a degree from Princeton's psychology department, where he wrote his senior thesis on the psychology of humor. In this video, he discusses his journey of studying humor while at Princeton.