Madwoman, Sing: An Introduction to Curlew River
Sunday, January 18, 2026
to Sunday, January 18, 2026
12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: Calvary Episcopal Church
Presented by Carnegie Mellon's Ryan Prendergast, Assistant Teaching Professor of Musicology, and joined by Pittsburgh Opera General Director, Christopher Hahn, this free community lecture will be an insightful look into this powerful and compelling work by Benjamin Britten.
This event is free and open to all.
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Dr. Ryan M. Prendergast currently serves as an Assistant Teaching Professor of Musicology, and was formerly the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the School of Music. Dr. Prendergast teaches courses in music history, opera history, dramaturgy, and musical theater history. He was formerly a lecturer in the College of Fine Arts at the University of Texas at Austin and dramaturg for the Butler Opera Center. Dr. Prendergast’s research focuses on opera production and its history, musical theater, German theater, and opera recording. He received his doctorate in theatre from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign with the dissertation “The Theatrical Collaborators of Richard Strauss: Networks, Materials, and Cultural Politics.” Fusing theatre studies and musicology, Dr. Prendergast has presented his work at national conferences of the Modern Language Association, the Association for Theatre in Higher Education, the American Musicological Society, the Mid-America Theatre Conference, and the International Richard Strauss Society. His research has been published in the Richard Strauss-Jahrbuch, The Wagner Journal, and in collected volumes from Cambridge University Press and edition text+kritik.
