The World of the Ring with Stefan Mickisch
For many years, piano virtuoso and Wagner authority Stefan Mickisch gave lectures on the Ring at Bayreuth. Join us to watch these lectures, captured as a four-part documentary, The World of the Ring by Eric Schulz, and enhanced with Mickisch’s excerpts on piano, video excerpts from past productions, and commentary by other Wagner experts.
The video presentations will be held on two Saturday afternoons:
March 16, 2019: Das Rheingold and Die Walküre
April 13, 2019: Siegfried and Götterdämmerung
Both sessions will be held at the Germanic American Institute, 301 Summit Avenue, Saint Paul, MN 55102. They will begin at 1 PM and last approximately four hours, with an intermission between operas where coffee and cookies will be served.
The March 16 lecture is a good introduction to our March 30 viewing of Die Walküre Live in HD, preceded by a lecture by musicologist Daniel Freeman. Tickets to that event are sold separately.