Guest Speaker
David Levin
Associate Professor of Germanic Studies
Associate Professor of Germanic Studies
University of Chicago
Location: 2650 Humanities
This talk examines the stakes of theatricality in Peter Konwitschny's strikingly unconventional production of Wagner's Götterdämmerung, which concluded the Stuttgart Opera's strikingly unconventional centennial production of the Ring cycle. The Konwitschny production sets out from a scene that is jarringly, jaw-droppingly anachronistic, and it concludes with an equally surprising, but much more familiar account of scenic erasure. As it turns out, opera and theatricality prove especially helpful in making sense of Konwitschny's production, which maps the tragedy of Wagner's tetralogy onto a scenic landscape beyond opera.
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