Teatro Colón: Its History and Great Wagner Performances
Gary Thalheimer. “Teatro Colón: Its History and Great Wagner Performances.”
Gary Thalheimer. “Teatro Colón: Its History and Great Wagner Performances.”
Holiday Musicale: Valerie Bernhardt and Corey Bix.
Tristan und Isolde Seminar. Lectures by Marian Burleigh-Motley, Joe Pearce, Jeffrey Swann, Prof. Hans Rudolf Vaget; Met Cast Roundtable.
Maestro James Conlon. “The First Los Angeles Ring.”
John J. H. Muller. “Wagner as Miniaturist: A Study of Tristan und Isolde.”
“Bayreuth 2008.” Visuals and discussion by attendees.
Group attendance at Das Liebesverbot, Glimmerglass Opera.
Bayreuth English-Language Lecture Series. 2008 lecturer: Professor Hans Rudolf Vaget.
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).
Paul Schofield: “Wagner and Buddhism” with booksigning for his book The Redeemer Reborn: Parsifal as the Fifth Opera of the Ring.
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).
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).