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Wagner's Ring Cycle: Meanings, Sources, Influences
Monday, June 7, 2010; Saturday, June 12, 2010; Monday, June 14, 2010; Monday, June 21, 2010
University Park Campus
Multiple Locations
$200
In four sessions, immerse yourself in the revolutionary impact the Ring cycle has had on music, literature, philosophy and politics.
Professor James Kincaid and guest speakers will lead discussions, small-group work and hands-on activities to explore questions such as: the origin of the Ring cycle story; the operas' political backdrop; literary influences upon Emerson, Whitman, Joyce, T.S. Eliot and others; and Wagnerian intersections with issues of gender, melodrama, anti-Semitism and popular culture.
Guest speakers will include USC faculty members in philosophy, art history, English, comparative literature, Italian and music, as well as representatives from the Los Angeles Opera, the Los Angeles Philharmonic and other cultural institutions.
There will be four sessions:
June 7, 7-9:30 p.m.
University Park Campus, Taper Hall
June 12, Time TBA
Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Backstage
June 14, 7-9:30 p.m.
University Park Campus, Taper Hall
Monday, June 21, 7-9:30 p.m.
University Park Campus, Taper Hall