As part of Visions and Voices’s new museum series, USC students will visit the Norton Simon Museum, which features an amazing collection of European art from the Renaissance to the 20th century and a stellar collection of South and Southeast Asian art spanning 2,000 years.

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Join us for a satellite broadcast of the Metropolitan Opera’s unforgettable new production of Hamlet, starring Simon Keenlyside and Natalie Dessay. The opera will be presented as part of an ongoing series of broadcasts presented in spectacular HD digital projection and 5.1 surround sound.

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By the year 2020, will the seductions of virtual worlds triumph over our desires for communal forms of entertainment? Will people still go to the theatre, movies and museums as home entertainment becomes more sophisticated? In this discussion, we will explore the role of the arts in the changing face of entertainment.

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David Schweizer will direct a musical production based on Melville’s last novel, The Confidence-Man. This darkly satiric tale unfolds on a Mississippi riverboat on All Fools’ Day, just before the War Between the States threatens to explode and expose the empty promises that lie at the heart of the American Dream.

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USC students will take a trip to the Ahmanson Theatre to see Dreamgirls, a powerful story of heartbreak and success in show business. The award-winning show follows the tumultuous career of a Motown girl group as they climb to the top of the charts, revealing the triumphs and tribulations that come with fame and fortune.

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Jon Cohen, award-winning journalist and correspondent for Science Magazine, has covered infectious diseases for 15 years. He will discuss his work as a leading HIV/AIDS reporter and the importance of journalism and investigation on global epidemics.

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Explore the utopian aspirations—and dreams of transcendence—in 1950s and 1960s automotive design and youth car-mod subcultures with a display of vintage cars, a panel discussion and a photography exhibition.

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The extraordinary work of internationally acclaimed electronic artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is engaging, provocative and beautiful. In a dynamic multimedia presentation, Lozano-Hemmer will discuss his award-winning work and the exciting possibilities for using art and technology to explore humanity and create community.

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USC students will take a trip to see the L.A. Opera’s production of The Stigmatized, the first-ever production in the Western hemisphere of an opera by Franz Schreker, whose career was suppressed in Nazi Germany.

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Join us for a reading and book signing with Robert Pinsky, a world-renowned poet, literary critic and translator. A U.S. poet laureate, Pinsky makes us take literature more seriously and see the way the artistic imagination creates, recreates and transforms the world around us.

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