USC College Continuing Education Courses

Wagner's Ring Cycle: Meanings, Sources and Influences

In four sessions, immerse yourself in the revolutionary impact that the Ring cycle has had on music, literature, philosophy, and politics.  USC Professor James Kincaid and guest speakers will lead discussions, small-group work, and hands-on activities to explore questions such as the origin of the Ring cylce story; the operas' political backdrop; literary influences upon Emerson, Whitman, Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and others; and Wagnerian intersections with issues of gender, melodrama, anti-Semitism, and popular culture.  Guest speakers will include USC faculty in philosophy, art history, English, comparative literature, Italian, and music, as well as representatives from the Los Angeles Opera, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and other cultural institutions. 

Monday, June 7, 2009 (Session 1 of 4)

7:00 – 9:30 p.m.

USC campus

Saturday, June 12, 2009 (Session 2 of 4)

Time TBA

Dorothy Chandler Pavilion – back stage (tentative)

Monday, June 14, 2009 (Session 3 of 4)

7:00 – 9:30 p.m.

USC campus

Monday, June 21, 2009 (Session 4 of 4)

7:00 – 9:30 p.m.

USC Campus

$200 Registration

Online registration will open in early January 2010.

To receive up-to-date information and to be notified when registration for this course opens, please contact  us:

Office of Advanced and Professional Programs
USC College of Letters, Arts & Sciences
University of Southern California
3501 Trousdale Parkway
Mark Taper Hall 355
Los Angeles, California 90089-0355

oapp@college.usc.edu
Tel: (213) 740-1349
Fax: (213) 740-5002