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Feen (talk) 2015Wagner Society of Scotland

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All meetings of the Wagner Society of Scotland take place at the Edinburgh Society of Musicians, 3 Belford Road, Edinburgh EH4 3BL on Sunday evenings 7.30-9.30pm unless otherwise specified.  Prospective members are welcome.

Speaker: Dr F. JANE SCHOPF: "Cutting Edge or cutting teeth? Die Feen, Wagner's first completed foray into opera"

This talk will explore Wagner's first completed opera Die Feen to see how prophetic it was of his later work and how indebted it was to operatic forerunners.

Dr Jane Schopf is Programme Director for Opera Studies at Rose Bruford College, Kent, where she initiated and runs the biennial international conference series "Music on Stage". She has spoken and published on Wagner and Krenek both in the UK and abroad.

Admission:

Members £7 / Non-Members £10