Adrienne Pieczonka Reception
Reception for Adrienne Pieczonka, Bayreuth and Met soprano (for special contributor members).
Reception for Adrienne Pieczonka, Bayreuth and Met soprano (for special contributor members).
Conversation with Anja Silja and Eva Wagner-Pasquier. In collaboration with George London Foundation.
Annual Seminar, on Die Walküre. Speakers: Professors Edward Haymes and Robert Bailey, Cori Ellison, Joe Pearce, Maestro Donald Runnicles; Met Cast Roundtable, hosted by Lew Grenville, moderator: Margaret Jane Wray (Sieglinde cover), Michelle DeYoung (Brangäne), and Clifton Forbis (Siegmund).
Reception for Gary Lehman (tenor), WSNY grantee who sang two performances of the Met Tristan, and his wife Susan Foster (soprano) (for special contributor members).
Paul Schofield: “Wagner and Buddhism” with booksigning for his book The Redeemer Reborn: Parsifal as the Fifth Opera of the Ring.
Program on Das Liebesverbot by cast members and director of Glimmerglass Opera (preparation for their presentation of the fully staged American premiere of the opera).
Bayreuth English-Language Lecture Series. 2008 lecturer: Professor Hans Rudolf Vaget.
Group attendance at Das Liebesverbot, Glimmerglass Opera.
“Bayreuth 2008.” Visuals and discussion by attendees.
John J. H. Muller. “Wagner as Miniaturist: A Study of Tristan und Isolde.”
Maestro James Conlon. “The First Los Angeles Ring.”
Tristan und Isolde Seminar. Lectures by Marian Burleigh-Motley, Joe Pearce, Jeffrey Swann, Prof. Hans Rudolf Vaget; Met Cast Roundtable.