Das Rheingold Seminar. Speakers: Dr. Árni Björnsson, Prof. Patrick McCreless, Erick Neher, Joe Pearce, and Alan Wagner. Met Cast Roundtable: Yvonne Naef (Fricka), Philip Langridge (Loge) and Richard Paul Fink (Alberich). Moderator: Lew Grenville.
Reception in honor of Siegfried Jerusalem, tenor, for special contributor members.
Alan Wagner. Mini-course on the Ring. Co-sponsored by the Society and City University of New York Graduate Center.
Alan Wagner. Mini-course on the Ring. Co-sponsored by the Society and City University of New York Graduate Center.
Maestro Pierre Boulez. Interview and reception.
Prof. Edward R. Haymes. “The Two Rings: Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings and Wagner’s Ring Cycle.”
Holiday Musicale: Recital with Jennifer Wilson, soprano, and Roxanne Rowedder, mezzo; Thomas Bagwell, pianist.
Reception in honor of John Tomlinson, bass, for special contributor members.
Prof. Hugh Macdonald. “Berlioz and Wagner: Master Sculptor and Master Singer.”
Adrienne Dugger, soprano; Craig Ketter, pianist. Recital, interview with slides of Der Fliegende Holländer (Bayreuth), and dinner.
Craig Knobles and Prof. Felicia Bonaparte. “ Rienzi.” Multimedia lecture on Rienzi in literature, art, and performance.
Jeffrey Swann, Ph.D. “Tristan and the Mystic Experience.”