Essentials for your calendar: WSNY's many upcoming events. Members receive special prices for all events, so please be sure you are paid up. Click here to renew or join online. See our Events Calendar for the full schedule. Looking ahead:

• September 20, 2019, 6:00 to 8:00pm: 2019-20 Season Kick-Off Event: Bayreuth Festival, 1876-2019, 3 West Club - Solarium, 9th floor, 3 West 51st St., Manhattabn. Click here for details.

• Wolfgang Wagner, 100th anniversary (Scott Carlton, Bayreuth chorister, 2003-2013)
• Siegfried Wagner, 150th anniversary (German Bravo-Casas, Vice President, WSNY)
• Gesellschaft der Freunde von Bayreuth, 70th anniversary

• October 23, 2019, 7:30pm, at the Liederkranz Foundation. Click here for details. Maestro Eve Queler, founder and music director of Opera Orchestra of New York, discusses her experience conducting more than 100 operas  with host Scott Carlton. Of special interest to WSNY: her concert performances of Rienzi, Tristan und Isolde, and a Gala Wagner Concert (1987) of the ending of each Ring opera.
• November 13, 2019: Francesca Zambello, general and artistic director of The Glimmerglass Festival, will present a program on Die Feen. It's exciting that Wagner's first opera will be performed at the 2020 summer festival, the first staged performance in the Northeast United States. Details to come.
• Dec. 6 (Fri.): Saul Lilienstein, lecturer: Wagner and Brahms: the War of the Romantics.
• Feb. (date TBA): Film: Der fliegende Holländer, a 1964 ground-breaking feature film by Joachim Herz; introduction by Hilan Warshaw.
• March 15 (Sun.): Seminar on Der fliegende Holländer. Highlighting the new Met production. With Victoria Bond, Prof. Peter Bloom, Prof. Hans Vaget, other specialists, and Met Cast Roundtable.

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NEW: Mahler in New York, A Symposium (click here for event flyer)

• When: Saturday, November 9, 2019, 9:00am - 6:00pm, followed Followed by a Recital at 8:00pm of selected Lieder by Gustav Mahler and Hugo Wolf performed by Kristina Bachrach, soprano, and Mario Diaz-Moresco, baritone
• Where: Columbia University, Maison Française, Columbia University, 515 W. 116th St., East Gallery, Buell Hall, Ground Floor
• Free admission, but reservations are required, by emailing: gms1119res@gmail.com.

Pre-Symposium Event: NY Premieres of Jason Starr’s New Films,  On Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer and Mahler’s Titan: The Romance, Death and Triumph of a Young Musician

• When: Friday, November 8, 2019 at 7:30pm
• Where: NYIT Auditorium, 1871 Broadway (at 62nd St)
• Click here to purchase tickets ($5 for GMSNY members, $10 for general public). No tickets will be sold at the door.

NEW UPDATE: Wagner In the U.S. and Canada...
Click here for the recently updated 2019-20 comprehensive list of performances, performers, and creative team (if known) of Wagner operas on these shores. The list will be updated as new information is received. You don't have to go abroad to hear and see great performances!