With German opera in the art, Professor Wendy Heller will present a talk, “Heut oder Morgan”: Nostalgia, Passion, and Lyric Pleasures in Der Rosenkavalier, for PFO members and guests. This event will take place on Saturday, October 5 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Some of our members are planning on attending the November 30 matinee performance of Der Rosenkavalier at the Metropolitan Opera. Dr. Heller, who is always charming and engaging, will most likely give us some insider tidbits and fascinating details. For a description of her talk check out the SPOTLIGHT section on our main page. Following her talk, we will all enjoy a lovely PFO luncheon, organized by membership chair, Carol Baron. Smith House, our location for the event, has been renovated, and we look forward to enjoying a lovely occasion. Invitations will be mailed by August 1. Tickets are $35 for guests, $50 for patrons, and $10 for students. Please RSVP by October 1.
Make checks payable to Princeton Friends of Opera and mail to: Princeton Friends of Opera, P.O. Box 2359, Princeton, NJ 08543-2359.
Professor of Music and Director of the Program in Italian Studies at Princeton University, Wendy Heller specializes in the study of 17th- and 18th-century opera from interdisciplinary perspectives, with emphasis on gender and sexuality, art history, and the classical tradition. A recipient numerous awards and fellowships, Heller has been a Mellon Fellow at the Society of Fellows of Columbia University, a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, an appointee at the Villa I Tatti Harvard University Center for Renaissance Studies and winner of the Frederick Burkhardt Residential Fellowship (ACLS) and was the Sylvan C. and Pamela Coleman Fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. With numerous publications in journals in music and other disciplines, she is the author of Emblems of Eloquence: Opera and Women's Voices in Seventeenth-Century Venice, winner of the annual book prize from the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women and finalist Otto Kinkeldey Prize from the American Musicological Society. Heller is also the author of Music in the Baroque and Anthology of Music in the Baroque, published by W.W. Norton in summer of 2013. Current projects include Animating Ovid: Opera and the Metamorphoses of Antiquity in Early Modern Italy, critical editions of operas by Handel and Cavalli, and an edited collection of essays entitled Performing Homer: The Voyage of Ulysses from Epic to Opera.