Wagner Birthday Musicale
Principals: Jennifer Bodenweber (soprano), John Short (tenor); Mark Cogley (pianist).
Past Events
12 events found.
Cosmology and the Ring
Lecture by Dr. Hans Meldens.
Parsifal Dinner
Met Grand Tier Dinner. Society ticket holders for the opening Met Parsifal were invited to dine on the Grand Tier before the performancce.
Parsifal Seminar
Fifteenth Annual Seminar: Parsifal
Richard Wagner and Isadora Duncan: The Theater of Love.
Jeanne Bresciani, Artistic Director of the Isadora Duncan International Institute, with “Isadora Duncan for Children,” in a lecture/demonstration of Duncan’s technique and Wagner’s music
The Seattle Ring
Speight Jenkins, General Director of the Seattle Opera, in a preview of his company’s new Ring production.
Getting the Word Out: Wagner, William Ashton Ellis, and The Meister
Lecture by Theresa Muir.
Holiday Musicale
Principals: Heather Meyers (soprano), Lawrence Harris (tenor); Yelena Kurdina (pianist).
Commemorative Series: Blanche Thebom
Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of Mme. Thebom’s Met debut. Gala dinner followed by a multi-media program and comments from distinguished colleagues
Recital by James King
The Society presented the internationally renowned heldentenor in his only New York recital, joined for a duet by Kathryn Chase, soprano; David Triestram, pianist.
America’s Wagner Cult and the Women’s Movement of the Late Gilded Age.
Lecture and book signing by Joseph Horowitz, author of Wagner Nights: An American History.
Commemorative Series: Karl Böhm
Commemorative Series: Karl Böhm (1894-1981). Celebration of the great maestro on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth in August 1894.