GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG SYMPOSIUM

About

As with our previous symposia, in parallel with the SSO-Simone Young performances, the day will be catered with enough breaks for participants to continue discussions in the foyer and on the terrace of the Goethe Institut.

The symposium will feature papers presented by:

Antony Ernst, Michael Ewans, David Larkin, Daniel Linton-France, Alexander Voltz and Simone Young in conversation.

The day will conclude with refreshments and further informal conversation.

BIOGRAPHIES OF SPEAKERS

ANTONY ERNST

Australian-born Antony Ernst has a multi-faceted career as a dramaturg, director, arts administrator, writer, translator, lecturer, and consultant. Management posts include General Manager of the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne in Switzerland, Orchestra Director of the Royal Danish Orchestra in Copenhagen, Head of Artistic Planning and Production at the Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg in France, and Artistic Planning Manager at the Auckland Philharmonia in New Zealand. He has worked as a director with opera houses in Sydney, Dresden, Düsseldorf, Rome, Frankfurt and Seville. He is also much in demand as a lecturer on opera and classical music, particularly about Wagner, Janáček and Strauss. He is the creator and director of the Peer Gynt project, which he has produced in Hobart (in English); Bremen, Germany (in German); and Tromsø and Bodø, Norway (in Norwegian).

MICHAEL EWANS

Michael Ewans (MA Oxford, PhD Cambridge) was originally appointed to a Lectureship in Classics at the…