Name: William Kentridge in Conversation
Start: 2019-12-01T15:00:00-05:00
End: 2019-12-01T16:00:00-05:00
Location: The Morgan Library & Museum

William Kentridge in Conversation

The Morgan Library&Museum is a museum, independent research library, music venue, architectural landmark, and historic site located in the heart of New York City.A century after its founding, the Morgan remains committed to offering visitors close encounters with great works of human accomplishment in a setting treasured for its intimate scale. Its collection of manu­scripts, rare books, music, drawings, and works of art comprise a unique and dynamic record of civilization, as well as an incomparable repository of ideas and of the creative process from 4000 BC to the present.

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The Metropolitan Opera and the Morgan Library & Museum invite you to hear from South African artist and director William Kentridge, who unveils a new production of Alban Berg’s 20th-century masterpiece <A HREF="https://www.metopera.org/season/2019-20-season/wozzeck/" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Wozzeck</A> at the Metropolitan Opera on December 27. Kentridge has been responsible for two of the Met’s most dazzling and thought-provoking productions in recent years—Shostakovich’s The Nose and Berg’s other opera, Lulu—and now returns to oversee the company’s first new Wozzeck in more than 20 years. The director will discuss the creative process behind the staging, the inspiration he found in the devastating play on which the opera is based, and the ominous yet captivating pre-World War I setting he has created.  
The exhibition <A HREF="https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/verdi" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Verdi: Creating Otello and Falstaff---Highlights from the Ricordi Archive</A>, will be open for program attendees.
This is a free event. Registration required. Tickets and seating available on a first come, first served basis.
 
Photo: Ruth Walz / Salzburg Festival.

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