“Wagner’s Träume: Mathilde Wesendonck, the Poet, the Muse, the Dream”

Soprano Whitney Myers from the faculty of the Sharon J. Resch Institute of Music is joined by pianist Joseph Welch in this lecture-recital that explores some of Richard Wagner’s most haunting songs – songs that Wagner called a “supreme transfiguration and consecration” of the poetry of Mathile Wesendonck.