Opera Resonates: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Opera Resonates: The Merry Wives of Windsor
College of Arts and Humanities | School of Music | The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
Sunday, April 13, 2025
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library
ABOUT THE EVENT
John Lescault, actor, teacher and Shakespeare practitioner
Dr. Olga Haldey, associate professor of musicology
Corinne Hayes, interim director, Maryland Opera Studio
Join a panel discussion that explores Otto Nicolai's German Romantic setting of Shakespeare's play, The Merry Wives of Windsor. Often dismissed as lesser by Shakespeare scholars, our panel will make a case for the original work and Nicolai/Mosenthal's adaptation, drawing from musicological, literary and socio-political sources.