Join Roger Grant for an engaging pre-broadcast talk on the Metropolitan Opera’s production of Parsifal, which will be broadcast live in theaters on Saturday, June 5 at 12:00 PM.
Roger Mathew Grant is the Deputy Provost and Dean of Arts and Humanities at Wesleyan University. A music theoristand cultural historian, his research concerns eighteenth-century music, affect theory, and the history of music theory. He is the author of two award-winning books, Peculiar Attunements: How Affect Theory Turned Musical and Beating Time and Measuring Music in the Early Modern Era. He is currently completing a new book on mission music in eighteenth-century Bolivia. He has held fellowships from the University of Michigan Society of Fellows, the Stanford Humanities Center and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Among other things, he is a lifelong opera fan!
Co-sponsored by the Shoreline Opera Club and Shoreline Village.
This program is free and open to all.
Please register.