The Office of Graduate and Extended Studies and the Department of Philosophy at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania will present a lecture and discussion on the opera \u201cTristan und Isolde\u201d on Thursday, October 6 at 7:00 p.m. in the Niedbala Auditorium located in the Warren E.\u201955 and Sandra Hoeffner Science and Technology Center on the campus of ESU.<\/p>\n
Opera enthusiasts Martin Weatherston, Ph.D., professor of philosophy, and Eugene Galperin, Ph.D., associate professor of mathematics at ESU will explore this timeless masterpiece and offer a philosophical view of the work in a presentation, “Tristan und Isolde: Love and Death in Music.\u201d<\/p>\n
The presentation, which is open to the public and free of charge, is geared toward people with little or no knowledge of opera. \u201cFew works of art ever made as great an impact in their own time and have had such a lasting influence as Richard Wagner\u2019s \u2018Tristan und Isolde,\u2019\u201d Galperin said. \u201cIt is a meditation on forbidden love and death set to music.\u201d<\/p>\n
The presentation will provide an introduction to \u201cTristan und Isolde,\u201d one of the Metropolitan Opera\u2019s Live-In-HD performances designed to make outstanding opera productions accessible to audiences throughout the world. This will be the 14th<\/sup> presentation in the series \u201cWhy Opera is Still Relevant Today.\u201d<\/p>\n The opera \u201cTristan und Isolde\u201d will be screened Saturday, October 8, at 12 p.m., and Wednesday, October 12, at 6:30 p.m. at the Cinemark Theater in the Stroud Mall.<\/p>\n For more information on the opera talk at ESU, please call Dr. Galperin at 570-422-3931 or Dr. Weatherston at 570-422-3603.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Office of Graduate and Extended Studies and the Department of Philosophy at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania will present a lecture and discussion on the opera \u201cTristan und Isolde\u201d on Thursday, October 6 at 7:00 p.m. in the Niedbala Auditorium located in the Warren E.\u201955 and Sandra Hoeffner Science and Technology Center on the campus of ESU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,40,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-music","category-news-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14827"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14833,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14827\/revisions\/14833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}