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SUMMARY:Bayreuth Talk: Conductor Simone Young
DESCRIPTION:Exploring the works in-depth with the artists performing in the Festival\, we continue our series of Artists’ Talks in 2024. These performers will discuss their careers\, the challenges and rewards of working at Bayreuth\, and answer audience questions in an informal atmosphere. \nOn Monday\, 19 August we welcome conductor Simone Young\, who will be conducting the Ring Cycle at this year’s festival. \nSimone Young is currently chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and from 2005-15 was the General Manager and Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera. After completing her musical studies in her native Sydney\, Ms. Young began her career on the podium in Germany. This launched her international career\, which has taken her to nearly all the most important opera houses and symphony orchestras around the world. Ms. Young is well known as a Wagner and Strauss specialist\, a reputation she developed early in her career when she conducted multiple complete cycles of Wagner’s “Ring” at the Vienna State Opera and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin\, as well as his Walküre and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg along with Strauss’ Elektra\, Salome\, Die Frau Ohne Schatten and Ariadne auf Naxos\, and also with a new production of Hans Pfitzner’s Palestrina at the Bavarian State Opera. \nThis in-person-only event will take place at the Arvena Kongress Hotel in Bayreuth\, Germany. \nTickets are $20 in advance online\, 20 € cash or credit card at the door. Pre-purchase is recommended to expedite entry and seating.
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/bayreuth-talk-conductor-simone-young/
LOCATION:Arvena Kongress Hotel\, Eduard-Bayerlin Str. 5a\, Bayreuth\, 95445\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Bayreuth
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SUMMARY:Bayreuth Talk: Bass-Baritone Nicholas Brownlee
DESCRIPTION:Exploring the works in-depth with the artists performing in the Festival\, we continue our series of Artists’ Talks in 2024. These performers will discuss their careers\, the challenges and rewards of working at Bayreuth\, and answer audience questions in an informal atmosphere. \nOn Tuesday\, 20 August we welcome bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee\, who will be performing Donner in Das Rheingold at the festival this season. \nNicholas Brownlee\, from Mobile\, Alabama\, is a member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt\, and winner of the Zarzuela prize at Operalia as well as a grand prize winner of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He has enjoyed success with roles such as Kurwenal\, Hans Sachs\, Der Holländer\, Jochanaan in Salome\, Der Geisterbote in Die Frau ohne Schatten\, Colline in La Bohème\, Méphistophélès\, Amonasro\, Leporello\, and Caspar in Der Freischütz. \nThis in-person-only event will take place at the Arvena Kongress Hotel in Bayreuth\, Germany. \nTickets are $20 in advance online\, 20 € cash or credit card at the door. Pre-purchase is recommended to expedite entry and seating.
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/bayreuth-talk-bass-baritone-nicholas-brownlee/
LOCATION:Arvena Kongress Hotel\, Eduard-Bayerlin Str. 5a\, Bayreuth\, 95445\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Bayreuth
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SUMMARY:Bayreuth Talk: Bass Tobias Kehrer
DESCRIPTION:Exploring the works in-depth with the artists performing in the Festival\, we continue our series of Artists’ Talks in 2024. These performers will discuss their careers\, the challenges and rewards of working at Bayreuth\, and answer audience questions in an informal atmosphere. \nOn Wednesday\, 21 August we welcome bass Tobias Kehrer\, who will be performing Fafner in Das Rheingold and Siegfried and Titurel in Parsifal. \nTobias Kehrer\, born in Dessau\, started his musical education with private singing lessons and studied at the Universität der Künste in Berlin with Professor Siegfried Lorenz. He joined the Deutsche Oper Berlin as a company member in 2012 and developed roles in Die Entführung aus dem Serail\, Der fliegende Holländer\, Don Giovanni\, Die Zauberflöte\, Jeanne d’Arc\, Rienzi\, Il barbiere di Siviglia\, La Bohème\, Rigoletto\, and Elektra. He has appeared at the Bayreuth Festival since 2018 and engaged to sing the Nachtwächter in the new Meistersinger production in 2025. \nThis in-person-only event will take place at the Arvena Kongress Hotel in Bayreuth\, Germany. \nTickets are $20 in advance online\, 20 € cash or credit card at the door. Pre-purchase is recommended to expedite entry and seating.
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/bayreuth-talk-bass-tobias-kehrer/
LOCATION:Arvena Kongress Hotel\, Eduard-Bayerlin Str. 5a\, Bayreuth\, 95445\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Bayreuth
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SUMMARY:Bayreuth Talk: Soprano Catherine Foster
DESCRIPTION:Exploring the works in-depth with the artists performing in the Festival\, we continue our series of Artists’ Talks in 2024. These performers will discuss their careers\, the challenges and rewards of working at Bayreuth\, and answer audience questions in an informal atmosphere. \nOn Thursday\, 22 August we welcome soprano Catherine Foster\, who will be singing Brünnhilde in Die Walküre\, Siegfried\, and Götterdämmerung in the Ring Cycle at this year’s festival. \nCatherine Foster is one of the leading dramatic sopranos worldwide and has set herself apart internationally through her work with the Wagnerian repertoire. She is considered one of the most important soloists to have appeared over the last decade at the Bayreuth Festival and it is telling that she performed not just Isolde\, but also Brünnhilde in both Götterdämmerung and Die Walküre in the 2023 festival. \nIn the 2023-24 season Catherine has appeared in the title role of Puccini’s Turandot at the Hamburg State Opera\, Teatro del Liceu Barcelona\, Opéra de Dijon\, and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She sang Isolde in Tristan und Isolde in Barrie Kosky’s critically acclaimed production in Essen\, as well as Brünnhilde in Die Walküre in Greek National Opera’s first-ever staging of the work. She was presented with the prestigious Reginald Goodall Prize by the London Wagner Society for her outstanding dedication to the music of Richard Wagner. \nThis in-person-only event will take place at the Arvena Kongress Hotel in Bayreuth\, Germany.\nTickets are $20 in advance online\, 20 € cash or credit card at the door. Pre-purchase is recommended to expedite entry and seating.
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/bayreuth-talk-soprano-catherine-foster/
LOCATION:Arvena Kongress Hotel\, Eduard-Bayerlin Str. 5a\, Bayreuth\, 95445\, Germany
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