TWO VERDI MASTERPIECES: ANALYSIS AND COMPARISON OF LA TRAVIATA AND OTELLO

In a two-lecture series, Prentiss Dunn, Music Professor at Webster University, Vienna, Austria and frequent guest lecturer in the Hamptons, explores the evolution of Giuseppe Verdi's dramatic and musical genius in two sublime but very different works.

Using Franco Zeffirelli's highly-acclaimed film versions of both "La Traviata" and "Othello' and his own analytic and pianistic skills, Mr Dunn leads us in an entertaining and informative exploration into the mind and methods of one of operas greatest creators.

Tickets: $ 10
The second lecture is scheduled Saturday, March 6th.

Mr. Dunn, a native of Louisiana, lives in Vienna, Austria and teaches at the Vienna branch of Webster University (St. Louis, MO.). He has a Bachelor's in church music and piano from Baylor University, a Master's in musicology and piano from Indiana University, and a Master of Divinity from Seabury/ Western Episcopal Seminary. He has been a guest speaker over the past five winters at the Southampton Culture Center and Bridgehampton Library, lecturing on the lives and music of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Mahler.

As an Episcopal priest, Mr. Dunn has recently begun combining his two disciplines - musicology and theology - in a series of presentations, "Music and Spituality", presented privately in Vienna and at two local Episcopal churches - St. John's, Southampton and St. Luke's, Bridgehampton.