AUTUMN CYCLE – OCTOBER / NOVEMBER 2018
WAGNER IN SCENE
A series of three sessions dedicated to the story of the staging of Richard Wagner’s work, by Paulo Ferreira de Castro (NOVA FCSH).
All sessions will be abundantly illustrated with audiovisual examples, and are intended for the general public.

Richard Wagner’s work as a theatrical challenge

In addition to its properly musical dimension, Richard Wagner’s work has always been a powerful stimulus to innovation in the field of staging, pushing the technical possibilities of the theater of his time to the limit and giving rise to new ways of thinking about the music-theatrical show in its wholeness.

The first session dedicated to the theme will focus on how Wagner’s creation develops from 19th century theatrical practices, and on how the tradition established in Bayreuth theater from the first Festival (1876) comes into confrontation with modern trends in staging developed in Europe since the beginning of the 20th century, giving rise to the first attempts to break with the Bayreuthian orthodoxy.

Free entry. Goethe-Institut, Lisbon