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 new members are warmly wlcomed.
Speaker: ELAINE KELLY: "Art as Utopia- Parsifal and the East German Left"
Elaine Kelly will chart the reception of Parsifal by East German opera directors in the second half of the twentieth century. The presentation will examine the reasons behind the apathy towards the work in the post-war era, and will explore how in later decades the opera gained new resonances, a circumstance that reflects both the political stagnation of the late Cold War and the rise of Regieoper (directors’ opera) on East German stages. Productions that will be discussed include those by Harry Kupfer, Joachim Herz, Ruth Berghaus, and Peter Konwitschny.
Elaine Kelly is Senior Lecturer in Music at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the intersections between music, culture, and politics in nineteenth and twentieth-century Germany. She has published on a range of topics, including stagings of Wagner’s operas, and is the author of a book exploring the reception of the musical canon in the German Democratic Republic (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Admission: Members £7 / Non-Members £10
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