Hungarian Opera—Past and Present
Highlighting the visit of the Hungarian State Opera and National Ballet.
Highlighting the visit of the Hungarian State Opera and National Ballet.
talk by Saul Lilienstein
Michael Sherwin: “Leonard Bernstein at 100: A Master Wagnerian.”
Talk with Paul de Quenoy
Jennifer B. Lee, curator: Unique Materials in the Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library (exhibit and talk), followed by lunch.
presentation by Jeffrey Swann
Jennifer B. Lee, curator: Unique Materials in the Columbia University Rare Book & Manuscript Library (exhibit and talk), followed by lunch.
Bayreuth Festival Highlights: German Bravo-Casas on Siegfried Wagner’s life and career; John Muller on the new production of Tannhäuser ; Scott Carlton on the anniversary of Wolfgang Wagner’s birth and his years as Director of the Bayreuth Festival.
Saul Lilienstein: “Wagner and Brahms: The War of the Romantics.”
Prof. Harlow Robinson. "The Russian Parsifal?: Rimsky-Korsakov and the Invisible City of Kitezh."
Maestro Eve Queler and Rienzi. With solos by Jeremy Brauner and Mary Ann Stewart.
Marian Burleigh-Motley, PhD, lecturer. "Parsifal and French Symbolism." With solos by Amy Shoremount-Obra (WSNY awardee).