NEXT WEDNESDAY ZOOM: 7.00pm [AEDT] on Wednesday 20 March
TALK BY BROADCASTER CHRISTOPHER COOK ON WAGNER IN BRITAIN
REGISTRATION FOR THE ZOOM
- Please click here to register online by Tuesday 19 March.
- Once you have registered, we will email you the zoom link 24hrs before the event.
- Tickets are $10 AUD.
ABOUT CHRISTOPHER COOK
Christopher Cook began his career in television, producing for BBC-2 and Channel 4. He continues to broadcast regularly on BBC Radios 3, 4, 5 and the BBC World Service. Christopher teaches ‘Cultural Studies’ for the University of Syracuse on their London Programme, courses on ‘Theatre and Culture; and the History of Theatre for the British American Drama Academy and was Visiting Professor at the University of the Arts, London until 2013. He has been a visiting Gresham College Professor where he has lectured on the visual construction of UK television news programmes and the making of modern celebrity. And he is presently a Visiting Research Fellow in the Theatre Department at Birkbeck College in the University of London.
Christopher is a regular contributor to BBC Music Magazine and International Record Review and has written for The Gramophone. He chairs pre-concert events for the BBC Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the Hallé Orchestra, the London Philharmonic Orchestra and Study Evenings at the Royal Opera House where he also interviews for their ‘Meet the...’ programmes and Glyndebourne Opera. For the past four years he has curated pre-performance talks at English National Opera. Christopher is also the Chairman of the Deal Music and Arts Festival.
In March 2022 he spoke to WSNSW via Zoom about Parsifal's Amfortas and Klingsor.