Retrospective of the 2007-2008 Season
Retrospective of the 2006-2007 Season
Retrospective of the 2005-2006 Season
Retrospective of the 2004-2005 Season
Retrospective of the 2003-2004 Season
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Retrospective of the 2007-2008 Season Retrospective of the 2006-2007 Season Retrospective of the 2005-2006 Season Retrospective of the 2004-2005 Season Retrospective of the 2003-2004 Season
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August 22, Friday, 8:00 p.m. Das Liebesverbot (Wagner’s early opera): WSNY group attendance. American staged premiere of Wagner’s early opera by Glimmerglass Opera. Other Das Liebesverbot dates: July 19, 22m, 28m, August 2, 10m, 14, 16m. Glimmerglass Opera’s 2008 season will present four operas that feature favorite Shakespearean characters: Handel: Giulio Cesare in Egitto, Porter: Kiss Me, Kate, Das Liebesverbot, and Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi. See their website: www.glimmerglass.org
August 20–28, 10:30 a.m.–Noon. Bayreuth English-language lecture series, on days of WSNY’s ticket allotment. 2008 lecturer: Hans Rudolf Vaget, Professor Emeritus of German Studies and Comparative Literature, Smith College. Click here for Flyer.
Additional details and particulars for all events to be announced. Please check the website.
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Retrospective of the 2007-2008 Season
September 20: “Die Meistersinger (Bayreuth); Kirov Ring (New York).” Panel discussion and visuals. Panelists: Kirov Ring: Ellen Scaruffi, John Margulis, and Erick Neher. Bayreuth: Verena Kossodo, Scott Carlton, and Erick Neher. Visuals on Kirov Ring: Mr. Neher. Powerpoint presentation on Die Meistersinger: Eugene Brister. F. Peter Phillips, moderator.
October 17: Dr. Sven Friedrich (Bayreuth archivist): “The Honorable Lady, An Appraisal of Cosima Wagner.”
December 6: Prof. Hans Rudolf Vaget (Smith College): “The Importance of Ernest Newman.”
Retrospective of the 2006-2007 Season
September 28: “The New Bayreuth Ring.” Annual program on the Bayreuth Festival, with visuals and panel discussion. Panelists: Verena Kossodo, Bill Earle, Lew Grenville, Frank Hartin, and Aidan Mooney; F. Peter Phillips, moderator.
October 26: Donald Arthur: “Hans Hotter, an Operatic Giant.” Lecture with audio and visual illustrations, by translator and editor of Hans Hotter: Memoirs. Booksigning and purchase
October 28: Reception for Heinz Zednik, Bayreuth tenor (for special contributor members).
November 14: Yvonne Nilges, Ph.D.: “Richard Wagner’s Midsummer Night’s Dream: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.”
December 13: John Louis Gaetani, Ph.D.: “Inside the Ring.” With panel of essay authors (Winnie Klotz, Neil Friedman, Gregory Kershner, and Geoffrey Riggs), discussing his new book. Booksigning and purchase.
December 31: Holiday Musicale: Sara Greeson (soprano) and David Kelso (tenor); Linda Hall, pianist. Featuring Die Walküre, Act I, Scene 3.
January 28, 2007: “Mozart Reflected in Wagner.” Panel: Professors Lydia Goehr, Peter Hoyt, and Philip Kitcher.
February 26: Francesca Zambello: “Directing Wagner Today.”
March 11: Annual Seminar on Die Meistersinger on Nürnberg. Speakers: William Wixom, Hans Rudolf Vaget, Nicholas Vazsonyi, Joe Pearce, Yuval Sharon, Jonathan Khuner, Raymond Hughes, and Met Cast Roundtable (Clayton Brainerd, Marie Plette, Richard Brunner).
April 12: “The Three Divas” (interview with Martha Mödl, Birgit Nilsson, and Astrid Varnay).
May 20, 2007: Memorial tributes to Astrid Varnay and Thomas Stewart. Appreciations, videos, and audio examples. Presenters: Tim Page and Geoffrey Riggs. Also, a celebration of Wagner’s 184th birthday and WSNY’s 30th anniversary.
July 13–21. Ring à la Russe, during the Kirov Ring cycles.
July 13 and July 16: Hospitality Suites: reception and boutique of Wagner-related books and Wagneriana.
July 13 and July 16: Das Rheingold dinners.
July 15: “Rhine Journey on the Hudson.” 4-1/2 hour harbor dinner cruise on the World Yacht Princess.
July 18: “The Influence of Wagner on Russian and Soviet Art”—Lecture with slide presentation by Marian Burleigh-Motley.
July 21: “The Kirov Ring in Context.”—Panel of presentations by scholars and specialists. Moderator: Catharine Nepomnyashchy. Speakers: Lynn Garafola, Joe Pearce, Maya Pritsker, and Ellen Scaruffi. Co-presentation of WSNY and Harriman Institute.
August 20–28. Bayreuth English-Language Lecture Series. 2007 lecturer: Jeffrey Swann, Ph.D.
Retrospective of the 2005-2006 Season
September 16: “Bayreuth 2005.” Visuals and panel discussion of new Bayreuth production of Tristan and Isolde and other 2005 operas. Bill Earle, Verena Kossodo, John Margulis George Preston, and Andrew Zacks; F. Peter Phillips, moderator.
October 6: Donald Arthur. “Ghosting for the Stars.” Co-biographer with Astrid Varnay, Hans Hotter, and James King. With rare footage and musical examples.
November 17: Stuart Skelton, heldentenor. Reception and interview.
December 6: William Berger, author and lecturer. “Evolution of the Gesamtkunst.”
January 1, 2006: New Year’s Day Musicale: Recital by Barbara Quintiliani, soprano, and Andrew Gangestad, bass.
February 24: Prof. Simon Williams, University of California, Santa Barbara. “Coming to Terms with History: Wagner, Nietzsche, and the Ring.”
February 27, March 27, April 24, and May 1: “Wagner Our Contemporary.” Four provocative programs with superb soloists, including WSNY’s Lauch Awardee and Met soprano Marjorie Elinor Dix. Presented by French Institute Alliance Française.
March 9: Special contributors’ event. Lohengrin DVD (Vienna State Opera)– excerpts, commentary, performances by grantees Andrew Gangestad and Gary Lehman, and champagne reception.
March 27, April 24, and May 1: “Wagner Our Contemporary.” Provocative programs with superb soloists, including WSNY’s Lauch Memorial Grant Awardee and Met soprano Marjorie Elinor Dix. Presented by French Institute Alliance Française.
April 7: Professor Boris Gasparov, Columbia University. “Shostakovich’s Fifteenth Symphony and the Semiology of Siegfried’s Death.”
April 23: Annual Seminar: "The Grail Operas." Speakers: Professors Joseph Goering, William Kinderman, Katherine Syer, and Benjamn Korstvedt, Joe Pearce; Met Cast Roundtable, hosted by F. Peter Phillips, moderator; Luana DeVol (Ortrud), Kelly Cae Hogan (Elsa cover), Greer Grimsley (Telramund), and Simon O’Neill (Lohengrin cover).
May 21: Memorial tribute to James King, and birthday tributes to Mr. King and Richard Wagner ((May 22) and Birgit Nilsson (May 17).
August 18, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, and 27. Bayreuth Festival English Language Lectures. Jeffrey Swann, DMARetrospective
of the 2004-2005 Season
September 22: "Bayreuth 2004" Visuals, tapes, and panel
discussion by attendees: Felicia Bonaparte, Eugene Brister, Verena Kossodo, and
Thurmond Smithgall. Moderator: F. Peter Phillips.
October 15: Dr. Oswald Georg Bauer, lecturer. "United are Love and
Spring."
November 23: Prof. Michael Beckerman, lecturer. "The Not Too Long and
Somewhat Strange Story of How Dvorak Came to Choose Wagner over Brahms.
Celebration of the centennial of Dvorak's death"
December 5: "Tannhäuser Seminar" Speakers: Prof. Robert
Bailey, Prof. Stephen R. Cerf, Joe Pearce; Met Cast Roundtable, hosted by Robert
J. Sweeney), moderator: Michelle DeYoung, Mark Lundberg (Tannhäuser cover),
Charles Taylor (Biterolf). Production panel discussion, hosted by Peter Allen:
Phoebe Berkowitz (Tannhäuser stage director), Steve Brown (Met company
manager), Diana Levy (ballet director), Sylvia Nolan (costume director).
January 2: Holiday Musicale:
Recital by Charles Taylor, Met Opera baritone (WSNY Robert Lauch Award
recipient, 2004).
January 22: Joe Pearce. "Tannhäuser and the Windgassen
Family."
February 10: 1912 silent film "The Life of Richard Wagner" (digitally
remastered in DVD format with soundtrack) and discussion of film by Dr. Paul
Fryer.
March 11: Mark Lundberg, heldentenor. Recital, interview, and dinner (a benefit
for the WSNY Singers Fund).
March 18: Speight Jenkins. "The 2005 Seattle Opera Ring." With
presentation of Anton Seidl Award to Mr. Jenkins.
April 27: 2-hour documentary on Astrid Varnay, Donald Collup: “Never before: The Life and ‘First' New York Career of Astrid Varnay”
May 22: Wagner Birthday Celebration on his 192nd birthday.
June 9: New York Philharmonic concert, Lorin Maazel conductor. Wagner: Siegfried Idyll; Berg: Seven Early Songs (Deborah Voigt); Bruckner Symphony No. 3
August 23, 24, 26, 27, and 28: Bayreuth English-language Lectures. Jeffrey Buller, Ph.D.
October 2: Jeffrey Swann, Ph.D., Pianist/Lecturer. “Tristan and the Mystic Experience.” With piano illustrations.
November 7: Craig Knobles: “Rienzi in Performance (Trier 2003)” and Prof. Felicia Bonaparte, Ph.D.: “The Mythification of History and the Historicizing of Myth: Bulwer, Wagner and Rienzi.”
November 14: Adrienne Dugger, Bayreuth and Met soprano. Recital, interview, and dinner. A benefit for the WSNY Singers Fund.
December 13: Prof. Hugh Macdonald. “Berlioz and Wagner: Master Sculptor and Master Singer.” (Berlioz Bicentennial Lecture.)
December 20: Reception for John Tomlinson, internationally renowned bass. For special contributor members.
January 4: Holiday Musicale: Recital by Jennifer Wilson, soprano, and Jennifer Rowedder, mezzo (WSNY grantees).
January 14: Prof. Edward R. Haymes. “The Two Rings: Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Wagner’s Ring Cycle.”
February 10: Maestro Pierre Boulez. Interview and reception.
March 17 and 24: Alan Wagner. Mini-course on the Ring. Co-sponsored by the Society and CUNY Grad Center.
Events in conjunction with the Met Ring Cycles:
April 25: Das Rheingold Seminar. Speakers: Dr. Árni Björnsson, Alan Wagner, Prof. Patrick McCreless, Erick Neher, Joe Pearce; Met Cast Roundtable: Yvonne Naef, Philip Langridge and Richard Paul Fink. Moderator: Lew Grenville.
Hospitality Suites: 2nd cycle: April 26 and April 29. 3rd cycle: May 3 and May 6. Reception and boutique for Ring attendees.
April 26 and May 3: Das Rheingold Dinners.
April 28: Reception in honor of Dr. Árni Björnsson, author of Wagner and the Volsungs, and book signing.
May 1: Luncheon-lecture and book signing. Prof. Philip Kitcher (Columbia University), co-author, with Richard Schacht, of Finding an Ending: Reflections on Wagner’s Ring. Followed by catered lunch and clips from the 1999 Amsterdam Ring.
May 7: Rhine Journey on the Hudson. Four-hour dinner cruise around New York harbor. Guests of honor: James Morris and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Volpe. Presentation of the Anton Seidl Award to Mr. Morris in recognition of his memorable contributions to Wagner performance in the U.S.