Opera Preview
Opera Preview: Wagner’s Ring
Presented by Norm Hollingshead
In connection with Seattle Opera’s late summer production of Richard Wagner’s incredible Ring Cycle, local opera lecturer Norm Hollingshead, is offering a free four-lecture cycle to prepare local opera-lovers for this amazing event. Wagner’s Ring, a four-operas in six-days marathon is the “Mt. Everest of operas.” These lectures, one for each, will discuss details of Wagner’s life during the 25 year composition of his Ring, along with a detailed analysis of the story of each opera with appropriate musical excerpts from Mr. Hollingshead’s own collection of recordings, many quite rare.
 Bellevue Regional Library
Monday, July 13, 7pm: Das Rheingold
Monday, July 20, 7pm: Die Walkure
Monday, July 27, 7pm: Siegfried
Monday, August 3, 7pm: Gotterdammerung
Issaquah Library
Wednesday, July 15, 7pm: Das Rheingold
Wednesday, July 22, 7pm: Die Walkure
Wednesday, July 29, 7pm: Siegfried
Wednesday, August 5, 7pm: Gotterdammerung Sponsored by the Friends of the Libraries. |
