The 2013 Forum will include lectures,
demonstrations, and performances concerning Goethe, Schiller and
Brecht, noting their profound connection with great music such as
Gounod's Faust, Verdi's Don Carlos,
Donizetti's Maria Stuarda and Weill's Seven
Deadly Sins. Wagner will receive special notice, acknowedging him
as one of the greatest theatre practitioners of the 19th Century.
Participants can choose to attend for a Saturday Day Trip only, with presentations by Theatre Forum favorites between 9:30am and 4:30pm, and additional talks and performances on Friday night, Saturday night, and Sunday morning are offered for those who wish to spend the full week-end at Festival Hill.
A typical Theatre Forum weekend...
Friday Evening
- Check in
- Lectures
- Dinner
Saturday
- Guided walk around the property
- Lectures & presentations
- Lunch
- "Formal" dinner
- Musical event
- "Kafe Kaffeine" -post-performance social/cocktail hour
Sunday morning
- Lectures & presentations
- Closing musical event
- Depart
Felicia Londre, nationally recognized theatre historian from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and author of fourteen books including the prize-winning “The Enchanted Years of the Stage,” will speak on Goethe and Faust.
Vern Sutton, former head of the Opera Department and retired chair of the Music Department at the University of Minnesota – a performer known for his appearances on A Prairie Home Companion, and a singer for whom opera composer Dominic Argento wrote many leading roles – will give a lecture-demonstration on Richard Wagner and the changing singing voice.
Tom Foral, painter, actor, fabric and set designer, will address Wagner as a theatre and scenic and visionary.
Ann Thompson, Houston’s favorite speaker on all things operatic, will enlighten the audience on Verdi and Donizetti’s us of the great plays of Schiller (a writer not often performed in the American theatre).
Sonja Bruzauskas, internationally known mezzo soprano, will focus on Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.
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