Michael Steinberg
Michael P. Steinberg teaches European History and Music at Brown University. He is the author of The Problem with Wagner (2018) and served as dramaturg on Guy Cassiers’s Ring for La Scala and Berlin (2010-13). He thanks Harry Rose and Montagu James for good suggestions for my Forza piece!
Michael Steinberg on Riccardo Muti, fascism, and who speaks through the collective voice of the Verdi Requiem.
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