Wagner Birthday Musicale
Principals: Jane Dutton (mezzo-soprano), Stephan Kirchgraber (bass); Steven M. Crawford (pianist).
Principals: Jane Dutton (mezzo-soprano), Stephan Kirchgraber (bass); Steven M. Crawford (pianist).
Reception and Interview: Jon Vickers, world-renowned heldentenor; Thurmond Smithall, interviewer.
Society group attendance at Opera at Florham’s dull day of Wagner-related activities.
Lecture on Die Meistersinger by Prof. Simon Williams, Dir. of Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara.
Eva Johansson (soprano) following her Met debut as Eva in Die Meistersinger on April 6.
Our 18th annual seminar.
Society group attendance at recital with the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, Julius Rudel, conductor.
Lecture by Michael Steinberg, musicologist and critic.
Principals: Caroline Whisnant (soprano), Clayton Brainerd (bass-baritone), joined by Edward Russell (bass); Kathleen Kelly (pianist).
Lecture by Prof. Hans R. Vaget.
Lecture by Mary Jane Phillips-Matz, with recorded musical examples.
Presentation of the complete Tannhäuser in a revolutionary Bayreuth interpretation by Götz Friedrich.