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).
from Richard I to Richard III: Wagner, Strauss and Questions of Influence: Lecture by John Muller, Juilliard Professor
Commentary by colleagues, with illustrations and excerpts from his memoirs.
Description: In a special presentation and book signing hosted by the Wagner Society of New York, Joseph W. Polisi offered a summary and archival images of the creation and growth […]
Description: Scholarship met fun in this delightful evening. Prof. Goldmark opened our eyes to the pervasive presence of Richard Wagner in the popular American culture of the mid 20th Century. […]
Description: Prof. Michael P. Steinberg of Brown University and co-curator of the recent exhibit in Berlin’s German Historical Museum explained the influence of Wagner on German nationalism in the mid-19th […]
Description: Our well-traveled Society members reported on productions of Wagner operas in the U.S. and abroad, including Opera Atlanta’s Das Rheingold, the Bayreuth Festival’s Parsifal, and Ring Cycles in Budapest […]
Barry Millington will join us from England to discuss his recent research on the relationship among Wagner, painter Edward Burne-Jones, and author George Eliot.