Siena, Wagner & Parsifal
Sunday, December 8, 2024
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC
2:00 pm – 4:30 pm EST/GMT-5
In the popular series Sight & Sound, The Orchestra Now explores the parallels between orchestral music and the visual arts. Each performance includes a Met curator introduction, a discussion with conductor and music historian Leon Botstein accompanied by on-screen exhibition images and live musical excerpts, then a full performance of the works and an audience Q&A.2:00 pm – 4:30 pm EST/GMT-5
At the dawn of the Italian Renaissance, Siena was the site of phenomenal artistic innovation and activity. Sienese artists including Duccio, Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, and Simone Martini played a pivotal role in defining Western painting. Over 500 years later, Richard Wagner revolutionized opera composition in much the same way. Twelve years after he read Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival, a poem from just 100 years before Siena’s painting revolution, he began working on a libretto inspired by this tale of the quest for the Holy Grail. This eventually became his final composition, the opera Parsifal.
Tickets and info at ton.bard.edu/events/wagner/
Leon Botstein, conductor
Wagner Selections from Parsifal:
Act I Prelude
Act III Prelude
Good Friday Music
Artwork from the exhibition Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350
The exhibition Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 will be on view at The Met Fifth Avenue October 13, 2024–January 26, 2025 in gallery 199.
For more information, call 845-758-6822, e-mail [email protected],
or visit https://ton.bard.edu/events/wagner/.
Time: 2:00 pm – 4:30 pm EST/GMT-5
Location: The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC
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