Educational Wagner Lecture

Join Union Avenue Opera and
Scott Stearman for a free interactive presentation leading up to the St. Louis
premiere of Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre, reduced and adapted by Jonathan
Dove. Die Walküre is
the second installment of Wagner’s epic Ring
cycle which the company started last summer with its production of Das Rheingold.

The lecture begins at 7pm in the Fellowship Gallery and is FREE and open to
the public. Attendees will be given a first look at the set and treated to a
guest performance by members of the cast of Die Walküre.

Power, Polytheism, Polyamory, & Impotence in Wagner’s Valkyrie.

August 8, 2013 at 7pm

Can you truly love more than one person? Does love oppose power? Why do
leaders fall victim to seductive crass power instead of seeking mutual
agreement? Does father really know best? In this talk, Scott Stearman will
address these questions as he leads us on an exploration of themes in the Ring
cycle and Die Walküre. This second installment in the cycle deals
with questions most of us face regularly: questions of love and marriage, sex and
responsibility, power and politics, and parents and honor. Die Walküre
is a rich, multi-layered work that touches on aspects central to our communal
and personal lives. Dr. Stearman’s talk will highlight a few of these in
anticipation of the enlightening and stirring performances of Wagner’s
Valkyrian masterpiece. There will be a Q&A session following the lecture.