The Musical Language and Adaptations of Pygmalion

BRIGITTE BOGAR recently completed her PhD, “Hidden in Plain Sight—Musical Subtext in Drama,” at York University. She has worked as conference organizer for MAPACA and served on their board (2013–18) and as area-chair for Body Art and Musical Theatre. She has lectured/performed/presented widely alone and with her late husband Christopher Innes, at invited public lectures/concerts in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Sweden, and Denmark (including NEMLA Keynote 2015). Together they edited Carnival: Theory and Practice (2012) and Shaw Criticism: Music (2016). She is the guest editor of SHAW 39.1: Shaw and Music and is currently working on (her last book with Innes) Art and Myth: The Operas of R. Murray Schafer. In 2014 she recorded a CD featuring music by GBS. Her recent stage appearances include Senta in Der fliegende Holländer and Lenora in Beethoven's Fidelio, as well as Elvira in Don Giovanni, Agathe in Der Freischütz, and Gutrune in Wagner's Götterdämmerung.