Bayreuth: A Model Performing Arts Producer
Lecture with slides by William Fregosi (Technical Coordinator for Music and Theatre Arts, MIT).
Lecture with slides by William Fregosi (Technical Coordinator for Music and Theatre Arts, MIT).
Presentation of the complete Tannhäuser in a revolutionary Bayreuth interpretation by Götz Friedrich.
Lecture by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, with recorded musical examples.
Lecture by Prof. Hans R. Vaget.
Principals: Caroline Whisnant (soprano), Clayton Brainerd (bass-baritone), joined by Edward Russell (bass); Kathleen Kelly (pianist).
Lecture by Michael Steinberg, musicologist and critic.
Society group attendance at recital with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Julius Rudel, conductor.
Our 18th annual seminar.
Eva Johansson (soprano) following her Met debut as Eva in Die Meistersinger on April 6.
Lecture on Die Meistersinger by Prof. Simon Williams, Dir. of Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara.
Society group attendance at Opera at Florham’s dull day of Wagner-related activities.
Reception and Interview: Jon Vickers, world-renowned heldentenor; Thurmond Smithall, interviewer.