Longborough Festival Mini-Ring
Longborough Festival Opera and Its Mini-Ring. Lecture with slides by Martin Graham (founder-director of the Longborough Festival Opera).
Longborough Festival Opera and Its Mini-Ring. Lecture with slides by Martin Graham (founder-director of the Longborough Festival Opera).
Lecture by Jeffrey Buller, Ph.D., followed by book signing for his Classically Romantic: Classical Form and Meaning in Wagner’s Ring.
25th WSNY Anniversary Gala and Reception. transcriptions.
Dinner and Entertainment: Reception, gourmet dinner, Overture to Tannhäuser danced by Jeanne Bresciani, highlights from the Society’s first quarter-century, honoring of charter members, photo displays, and silent auction. p.m.
Jeffrey Swann, Ph.D. “Tristan and the Mystic Experience.”
Craig Knobles and Prof. Felicia Bonaparte. “ Rienzi.” Multimedia lecture on Rienzi in literature, art, and performance.
Adrienne Dugger, soprano; Craig Ketter, pianist. Recital, interview with slides of Der Fliegende Holländer (Bayreuth), and dinner.
Prof. Hugh Macdonald. “Berlioz and Wagner: Master Sculptor and Master Singer.”
Reception in honor of John Tomlinson, bass, for special contributor members.
Holiday Musicale: Recital with Jennifer Wilson, soprano, and Roxanne Rowedder, mezzo; Thomas Bagwell, pianist.
Prof. Edward R. Haymes. “The Two Rings: Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Wagner’s Ring Cycle.”
Maestro Pierre Boulez. Interview and reception.