The Bridge to Valhalla
Francesca Zambello: The Bridge to Valhalla on her production of the San Francisco Ring and the Glimmerglass Festival. With visuals.
Francesca Zambello: The Bridge to Valhalla on her production of the San Francisco Ring and the Glimmerglass Festival. With visuals.
Prof. Jeffrey Langford (Manhattan School of Music): Pelléas et Mélisande and the Exorcism of Wagner.
Holiday Musicale: Meagan Miller, soprano (Robert Lauch Endowed Fund awardee) and William Hobbs, pianist.
Guided tour of Joseph Urban exhibit at Columbia University.
Dan Sherman: Wagner at the Met since 1883. With visuals.
Reception for Stuart Skelton (Drum Major in Met production of Wozzeck, Robert Lauch Memorial Fund awardee). A Meet the Artist event for special contributors.
Waltraud Meier (Bayreuth Festival and Met Opera Marie in Wozzeck): interview and reception in her honor. With visuals.
Annual Seminar on Die Walküre during the Met run. Distinguished scholars (Edward Haymes, Joe Pearce, Jeffrey Swann, Hilan Warshaw), and Met Cast Roundtable: Sabine Hogrefe (Brünnhilde cover), Marjorie Elinor Dix, Stuart Skelton, and Jukka Rasilainen (Wotan cover).
Screening of film on Siegfried Wagner and Wagner's 198th birthday celebration.
Annual business meeting, followed by encore of excerpts from Waltraud Meier program.
Bayreuth Festival: English language lectures sponsored by WSNY; John Muller, 2011 lecturer.
Bayreuth Festival: Visuals, audio clips, and panel: John J. H. Muller (moderator), Scott Carlton, and Simon Frisch.