What does the Ring actually do in Wagner’s Ring Cycle? with Prof. Thomas Grey
March 6, 2027 - 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Well known to Wagner Society members, Thomas Grey will examine the meaning and functions of the “ring” Wagner’s epic cycle. Grey is a Professor Emeritus of Musicology and by courtesy, German Studies, at Stanford University. His special fields of study are: Wagner, 19th-century opera, the history of musical aesthetics and criticism, Romantic music and visual culture. Professor Grey’s many publications include “Wagner’s Musical Prose: Texts and Contexts” (1995), “Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman” (editor and co-author, 2000), and “Cambridge Companion to Wagner”, (2008). He has published many articles and reviews as well as chapters in “The Wagner Compendium”, “The Mendelssohn Companion”, “Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera”, “Cambridge History of 19th-Century Music”, “New History Of German Literature”, and “Cambridge Opera Handbooks: Tristan und Isolde“. He was Editor-in-Chief, Journal of the American Musicological Society (1999-2001) and has been on the editorial/advisory boards of the Cambridge Opera Journal, Nineteenth-Century Music Review, Wagner Spectrum.
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