Hear the future of Wagnerian singing: Our annual Singers Competition Finals will take place on Tuesday, May 20 and this year, for the first time, WSNY members are invited to attend the final auditions, where they can be introduced to some of the most exciting young Wagner voices from around the world. This year’s special guest judge will be renowned Wagnerian soprano Jane Eaglen.
The WSNY celebrates our 2024 Lauch Memorial Award winner, tenor Shawn Roth in an intimate recital at Scandinavia House in Manhattan.
Organist Christopher Houlihan performs transcriptions of Wagner's compositions and other works, in this program co-presented with the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Our Annual Recital featured mezzo-soprano Shanley Horvitz accompanied by pianist Craig Ketter in a selection of pieces by Wagner (including the Wesendonck Lieder), Ravel, Dvořák, and Janáček. Ms. Horvitz was the WSNY's 2022 Lauch awardee and has been reviewed "to spin lovely, warm legato phrases, replete with ease of emission, dynamic variety, elegance, yet holding […]
In partnership with the Metropolitan Opera Guild, a vocal showcase featuring excerpts from Wagner's Lohengrin. Lohengrin is the third opera of Wagner’s middle period, and it continues a style of tonality that the composer had developed earlier in Tannhäuser. Lohengrin's musical style also anticipates Wagner’s future leitmotif technique and, as with all of his operas […]
Scenes from Götterdämmerung and Franz Schubert: Sonata in B flat major, D.960
Patrick Allen, organ. Recital of organ arrangements of Wagner excerpts.
Helena Brown, soprano (WSNY awardee), and Bradley Moore, piano.
Jeffrey Swann, pianist and lecturer: "New Year's Concert."
Suzanne Hendrix, mezzo (WSNY?Robert Lauch Endowed Fund awardee), and Carami Hilaire, soprano (WSNY?awardee), with reception.
Collaboration with Metropolitan Opera Guild, featuring six WSNY grantees.
Vocal showcase: Parsifal, with commentary, joint event with Met Opera Guild. WSNY grantees: Leah Crowne, Mauricio Trejo, John Dominick III.
