Bayreith Lectures
Bayreuth Festival: English language lectures sponsored by WSNY; John Muller, 2011 lecturer.
Bayreuth Festival: English language lectures sponsored by WSNY; John Muller, 2011 lecturer.
Annual business meeting, followed by encore of excerpts from Waltraud Meier program.
Screening of film on Siegfried Wagner and Wagner's 198th birthday celebration.
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).
Waltraud Meier (Bayreuth Festival and Met Opera Marie in Wozzeck): interview and reception in her honor. 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.
Dan Sherman: Wagner at the Met since 1883. With visuals.
Guided tour of Joseph Urban exhibit at Columbia University.
Holiday Musicale: Meagan Miller, soprano (Robert Lauch Endowed Fund awardee) and William Hobbs, pianist.
Prof. Jeffrey Langford (Manhattan School of Music): Pelléas et Mélisande and the Exorcism of Wagner.
Francesca Zambello: The Bridge to Valhalla on her production of the San Francisco Ring and the Glimmerglass Festival. With visuals.
Nancy Ellison: Entering Wagner's World on her book of photos, Wagner's Eternal Ring. With visuals and booksigning.