Deborah Burton in her lecture will highlight and weigh the bold comparisons of Wagner; hero, demon, or human?

The event will be 2-4pm at Boston Conservatory at Berklee.

FREE to Boston Wagner Society members and Students with valid ID.

$10 to all others payable in advance on our website or at the door.

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Deborah Burton, Associate Professor of Music at Boston University, specializes in opera analysis and the history of music theory. In 2022, she completed the finale to Turandot, Puccini's opera left unfinished at his death, using previously unaccessed autograph sketches.

Dr. Burton's monograph, Recondite Harmony: Essays on Puccini’s Operas (2012) examines all of the composer's operas from an analytic point of view. Dr. Burton was president of the New England Conference for Music Theory from 2006-2008, andwas an originator of and participant in the interdisciplinary conference “Tosca 2000” in Rome, honoring the centennial of Puccini’s opera.