This May 2024, our Professor of Music and Intellectual History, Mark Berry, will be giving the keynote lecture at the Wagner and Nietzsche Dublin Conference.
A conference on Friedrich Nietzsche's critical reactions to the philosophical, political, and aesthetic thought of Richard Wagner, Prof Mark Berry will be presenting a lecture entitled ‘Bounds and Nature of Authority: Critical Staging of Lohengrin and the Ring’.
The conference will take place on 28-29 May 2024.
About Mark Berry
Mark Berry read History at the University of Cambridge, continuing there to study for an MPhil and PhD, before being elected in 2001 as a Fellow of Peterhouse, where he remained until 2009, upon his appointment as Lecturer in Music at Royal Holloway. He has lectured on subjects ranging from political culture at Louis XIV’s Versailles to European Marxism and music after 1945. His research has tended to draw upon his interests in both History and Music, as well as upon other disciplines, such as Philosophy, Theology, Art and Architectural History, Theatre Studies, and Literature.
Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner’s ‘Ring’ was published by Ashgate in 2006. For his work on Wagner he has received the Prince Consort Prize and the Seeley Medal. He write a number of articles for the Cambridge Wagner Encyclopaedia, published in 2013; they range from short biographical pieces to essays on topics such as 'German History', 'Morality', and 'Politics'. Dr Berry is also co-editor with Professor Nicholas Vazsonyi of The Cambridge Companion to Wagner's 'Der Ring des Nibelungen', published in 2020.
Whilst maintaining and furthering his interests in Wagner, subsequent research has also looked back towards the eighteenth century, including treatment of Bach, Mozart, and Haydn, and forward to the twentieth century. After Wagner: Histories of Modernist Music Drama from 'Parsifal' to Nono was published by Boydell and Brewer in 2014. It offers an historical treatment of politics, aesthetics, and music-drama from Parsifal onwards, whose concerns include Richard Strauss, Schoenberg, Luigi Dallapiccola, Hans Werner Henze, Luigi Nono, and operatic staging. Read more.
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If you wish to attend the conference, please visit this webpage for further information and to book your place (link embedded).
