The Life & Art of Richard Wagner - Course at OLLI taught by WSWDC Chairman Jim Holman!

Jim Holman will present eight lectures offering a broad survey of the  life and art of Richard Wagner. The first lecture will describe the  course of Wagner's life and career. It will include an excerpt from each  of the ten Wagner masterpieces which continue to provide a central core  of the operatic repertory. Lectures two and three will describe  Wagner's innovations in the history of opera and music, focusing on both  the leitmotif and the symphonic arc of Wagner's music. Lectures four  through eight will survey five of the ten operas, in chronological  order: Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Tristan and Isolde, The Mastersingers of Nuremburg and Parsifal.

The course will be offered through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at American University. 

Cost and registration details to come.