Description: Wagner Society grantees Clay Hilley and Issachah Savage recently recorded a thrilling interview with Society Singers Program Director Scott Carlton, and was videocast to WSNY members. For many years, […]
Maestro Thomas Guggeis shared his insights into the challenges of conducting the Ring in Berlin and Der fliegende Holländer at the Metropolitan Opera, with particular emphasis on the influence of […]
Description: Our guest speaker, Maestro David Chan, in his 24th season as concertmaster of New York's Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, which performs almost daily under a constantly changing series of conductors. […]
A private reception in honor of Maestra Oksana Lyniv. Oksana Lyniv was the first woman to conduct at the Bayreuth Festival when she led Der fliegende Holländer in 2021, a […]
Exploring the works in-depth with the artists performing in the Festival, we continue our series of Artists' Talks in 2024. On Monday, 19 August we welcome conductor Simone Young, who will be conducting the Ring Cycle at this year's festival. Performers will discuss their careers, the challenges and rewards of working at Bayreuth, and answer audience questions in an informal atmosphere.
Exploring the works in-depth with the artists performing in the Festival, we continue our series of Artists' Talks in 2024. On Tuesday, 20 August we welcome bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee, who will be performing Donner in Das Rheingold. Performers will discuss their careers, the challenges and rewards of working at Bayreuth, and answer audience questions in an informal atmosphere.
Exploring the works in-depth with the artists performing in the Festival, we continue our series of Artists' Talks in 2024. On Wednesday, 21 August we welcome bass Tobias Kehrer, who will be performing Fafner in Das Rheingold and Siegfried and Titurel in Parsifal. Performers will discuss their careers, the challenges and rewards of working at Bayreuth, and answer audience questions in an informal atmosphere.
Exploring the works in-depth with the artists performing in the Festival, we continue our series of Artists' Talks in 2024. On 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. Performers will discuss their careers, the challenges and rewards of working at Bayreuth, and answer audience questions in an informal atmosphere.
Former Head of Music Staff at the Metropolitan Opera, Craig Rutenberg explains what a prompter does, what preparation prompters undergo in a particular production, and how a good prompter can rescue performers from disaster. He will also discuss the various responsibilities of the music staff at the Met — from rehearsal pianist to diction coach to assistant conductor to prompter.
This is the Society’s annual “deep dive” into a Wagner-related work currently in the repertory of the Metropolitan Opera. This year we will visit a work that many regard as Richard Strauss’s masterpiece: Die Frau ohne Schatten. Speakers include Prof. Bryan Gilliam of Duke University, Prof. Larry Wolff of New York University, and our very popular Singers’ Roundtable featuring members of the cast of the Met production. Critic and lecturer David Shengold will return as our Moderator.
In his decades-long career as a musician, Doug Adams has remained in-demand as a performer, a composer/arranger, an author, and a lecturer. He was selected by Howard Shore to observe and document his work on The Lord of the Rings films – a score performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, eventually exceeding 13 hours, and consistently cited as one of the best film scores ever written.
Conductor Simone Young will again join the Wagner Society of New York for a private reception following her matinée performance of Bruckner's Sixth Symphony with the New York Philharmonic.