Homenaje a Herbert Graf
This book is the result of the Opera and Psychoanalysis Seminar, given at the EFBA in 2019 and 2020. I titled it "Opera and Psychoanalysis: A Tribute to Herbert Graf," a series born from my interest in this "total art," as Richard Wagner called it, since each opera combines music with libretto and staging—an interest shared by many of my colleagues at the EFBA and at institutions affiliated with the Convergence, whom I invited to join me.
Why pay tribute to Herbert Graf, world-renowned for his work as a stage director? What is the relationship between Graf and psychoanalysis? In 1972, already in his old age, Herbert Graf was interviewed by Francis Rizzo for Opera News magazine, who titled the conversation Memoirs of an Invisible Man, because of the words Herbert used to describe himself: “I always thought that the stage director is the ‘invisible man’ of opera. The very nature ...read more
