WASHINGTON NATIONAL WAGNER SOCIETY presents

“How To Write Your Own Wagner Opera”
 
A musical lecture with Colleen Fay
 
Sunday, May 2, 2010
 
3:00 PM
 
The Universalist
National Memorial Church
1810 16th Street N.W.
Washington, DC 20009
202 470 5559
 
FREE Admission

Come join Ms. Fay for an in-depth look at how Wagner constructed the scenes for his operas and how they differ from the scenes created by other opera composers, such as Mozart or Verdi.

 
          Ms.Fay is a singer, composer, arts critic and lecturer active in the Washington, DC area. She has performed with numerous organizations including the Washington National Opera and the Wolf Trap Opera Company.

 A Washington Post critic had called her singing, “stylistically impressive and particularly distinguished.” A recent recording of her compositions was supported by a grant from the D. C. Commission on Arts
and Humanities with funds from the National Endowment for the Arts.She has been the music critic on Public Television’s “Around Town” for more than 20 years and regularly appears on National Public Radio’s “Metro Connection” heard on Washington’s WAMU-FM.

She was the Head Librarian of the Performing Arts Library at the John F, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts from 1978 to 1993 and previously
was a Music Librarianat the Library of Congress.

 
 Ms. Fay is a regular lecturer for the Smithsonian Associates and writes program notes for several musical ensembles in the Washington area.

 


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Web site:   http://www.washingtonnationalwagnersociety.org