More Myths & Legends with Iain Scott

Supernatural – Black and White Magic

Opera is full of mysterious eclipses, supernatural witches, the incantations of wizards, and many forms of scary paranormal phenomena.

From Handel’s Alcina and Rinaldo to Mozart’s Don Giovanni, to Verdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera, to Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel – we can be intrigued and maybe even scared by links beyond our normal experience.

There are zombies in Wagner’s the Flying Dutchman, ghosts (phantom of the opera?) in Tchaikowsky’s the Queen of Spades, Britten’s the Turn of the Screw, Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt, Verdi’s Macbeth … and many, many others.

In the series:
Feb. 9: Eternal Feminine
Feb. 16: Slavic/Russian
Mar. 2: Uses of Enchantment
Mar. 9: Supernatural