Study Group Details
516: Richard Wagner: The Extraordinary Life and the Indispensable Music
Tuesday9:45 - 11:15
Starting September 24
In-Person
Jim Holman will present eight lectures offering a broad survey of the life and art of Richard Wagner. The first lecture will describe the course of Wagner's life and career. It will include an excerpt from each of the ten Wagner masterpieces which continue to provide a central core of the operatic repertory. Lectures two and three will describe Wagner's innovations in the history of opera and music, focusing on both the leitmotif and the symphonic arc of Wagner's music. Lectures four through eight will survey five of the ten operas, in chronological order: Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Tristan and Isolde, The Mastersingers of Nuremburg, and Parsifal. This study group has a high class size capacity.
This study group is new
Class Type: Lecture and Discussion
Class Format: In-Person
Hours of Reading: 1-2 hrs/week
Study Group Leader(s):
James Holman
Jim Holman has written and edited various books on the life and music of Richard Wagner. Jim has lectured throughout the country and has conducted OLLI classes on Wagner for several years.