CESEM (the Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical), a research unit at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal), is to host an international Conference on the theme ‘Consequences of Wagner’, to mark the 100th anniversary of the first staging of Wagner’s Ring in Portugal. The Conference venue will be the very theatre where these historical performances took place: the Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos (Lisbon Opera House).
The Conference forms part of an ongoing research project funded by the FCT (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology), and its focus, as implied in the title, is the overall impact of Richard Wagner’s works and ideas on Western culture, with a particular emphasis on the movements and phenomena (the ‘consequences’) that could be said to have been triggered off by Wagner even though they might not necessarily fall under the heading of ‘Wagner reception studies’ in the strict sense.
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