Literary Inspiration in Opera: Verdi & Wagner
Tue, Sep 29
|Online Even via Zoom
In this two-part series, Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean will offer an entertaining analysis of the literary interests of two titans of nineteenth-century opera, Verdi and Wagner.
Time & Location
Sep 29, 2020, 7:00 PM PDT – Oct 06, 2020, 8:30 PM PDT
Online Even via Zoom
About the Event
Folio Seattle and Seattle Opera present Literary Inspiration in Opera: Verdi & Wagner. In this two-part series, Seattle Opera Dramaturg Jonathan Dean will offer an entertaining analysis of the literary interests of two titans of nineteenth-century opera, Verdi and Wagner.
In Part One, learn how Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi’s keen dramatic instincts were honed by his study of his favorite playwrights, including Victor Hugo, Friedrich Schiller, Eugène Scribe, and, above all, William Shakespeare.
In Part Two Jonathan Dean will explore how Verdi’s German contemporary Richard Wagner crafted a new kind of opera out of his enthusiasm for ancient Greek drama, chivalric medieval romance, northern European myths and legends, and German singer-songwriter schools including the Minnesingers and the Mastersingers.
About Jonathan Dean
Jonathan Dean first joined Seattle Opera for a post-college internship in the summer of 1995. As Dramaturg, he helps audience, staff, and visiting artists access, understand, and interpret opera.
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Tickets
Folio Member - Part Two
$20.00
+$0.50 ticket service fee
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$25.00
+$0.63 ticket service fee
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