The lecture deals with what lead to the close friendship between the composer Wagner and the philosopher Nietzsche and what issues came up so that they became enemies.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00c1rni Blandon has introduced Wagner\u00b4s operas at The State Radio, Morgunbla\u00f0i\u00f0 and The Continuous Education Program of The University of Iceland. He holds an M.Phil degree in Comparative Literature from New York University with specialty in philosophy, psychology and the history of drama.<\/p>\n At The State Radio he has introduced close to 200 musicals; he has also made many introductory programs on American poets that can found as podcasts at R\u00daV. \u00c1rni has also read many novels on The Radio, Channel 1. He studied acting in London and worked as an actor for some years at The National Theater and was a member of The Directors Guild.<\/p>\n When \u00c1rni was a guitarist in the band Gypsies (Tatarar) he made the song Dimmar r\u00f3sir (Dark roses) that has been recorded many times and the song was chosen to take part in the program The Favorite Songs of the Nation on The State Television in 2014. Some versions of the song can be found on youtube.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Wagner company offers a lecture at the Nordic House on February 11. at 14:00.\u00a0Lecture by \u00c1rni Blandon The lecture deals with what lead to the close friendship between the composer Wagner and the philosopher Nietzsche and what issues came up so that they became enemies. \u00c1rni Blandon has introduced Wagner\u00b4s operas at The State […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8379,"template":"","event-categories":[7],"class_list":["post-8381","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","event-categories-lecture","has-banner-image"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event\/8381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/event"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event-categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-categories?post=8381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}