It's a pleasure to seek out Wagner-related events and streamings and share them with you, for our e-blasts and for the next issue of Wagner Notes. Here is the latest update:

Bachtrack and OPERA America: useful information is available on their websites. Also,  International Association of Wagner Societies (RWVI) announces upcoming live events on their website.

Past summer series, noted with appreciation: Santa Fe Opera and The Glimmerglass Festival featured virtual events on each of the operas (including Wagner) they were planning to present. The final one in Glimmerglass Glimpses was a charming animated glimpse of Die Feen. Eric Owens was the narrator, and two singers who performed at our Introduction to Die Feen in Nov. 2019 were featured. It is still available  here for streaming.

• Glyndebourne Festival Opera's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, available through Sun Sep 6, 17:00 BST (11 AM CDT) https://www.glyndebourne.com/openhouse/
• Powerhouse Arena and The Wagner Society of New York present the official U.S. launch of Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music by Alex Ross in conversation with A.O. Scott (NY Times) and Scott Carlton (WSNY), live on Mon Sept 14 7-8 PM EDT (6-7 PM CDT) -- click here for more details. WSNY will also present an event on Nov. 19, with Alex Ross and Prof. Heath Lees. Stay tuned for details.
• Alex Ross will converse with novelist James Wood on his new book "Wagnerism..." on Sept 16, at 7 pm EDT, at the Harvard Book Store. Co-sponsored by the Boston Wagner Society.
• Wagner Society of Northern California presents a Zoom webinar on Das Liebesverbot or "No Love Allowed" Sept 12, 2020,  01:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada) Speaker: Maestro Jonathan Khuner. Click here to register in advance.
• Manchester Wagner Society presents a lecture by their President, Derek Blyth, "Amfortas – the wound! The concept of injury and recovery in Wagner and in medieval legend and literature" live on Mon Sept 14 7-8 PM BST (1-2 PM CDT). Please contact John Payne at: johnpayne38@hotmail.com to register and obtain a Zoom link.
• Finnish National Opera's Der Fliegende Holländer, available through Tues Sept 29.
• Opera Vlaanderen's Parsifal
• La Monnaie/De Munt's Tristan und Isolde
• Wagner Society (of London) presents a lecture, "Wagner and the German Theatre in Riga" and encourages you to learn more about the project.
• Wagner Society of Washington, D.C. presents a Fall 2020 Webinar Series. See their website for full listings and registration information. www.wagner-dc.org

And many more...

• Countless Ring cycles! If you were persistent, you could have seen three Bayreuth Ring cycles in addition to many other Ring cycles and streamings, worldwide, in these summer months.
• The Metropolitan Opera continues streaming anarchival opera each evening, accessible from their website home page. Many Wagner performances have been presented and we look forward to more.
• Deutsche Oper Berlin is performing Das Rheingold in a car park several more times after a highly successful live performance premiere. Sir Simon Rattle will conduct forthcoming performances. Click here to access their English website.
• Metropolitan Opera Pay-Per-View: American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, one of opera’s most luminous stars, has given innumerable outstanding performances over the course of her Met career, most recently starring in the title role of Handel’s Agrippina last season, will present a live concert on Saturday, September 12, at 1:00pm. Click here for more.
• Concertgebouw (Amsterdam) has announced a resumption of concerts from the end of August: small-scale and repeated on the same evening. Conductors: Andris Nelsons (August), Philippe Hereweghe (September), Pekka Kuusisto (September and October). Chamber orchestra concerts, and Gustavo Dudamel (November) to include Wagner.
• Jonas Kaufmann, tenor, September 29: solo recital at the Vienna Staatsoper (replacing Agnes Baltsa). Tickets are on sale, and there will be a live audience. Kaufmann is singing during the week of August 23, 2020 at the Grafenegg Festival.
• Paris Opera Ring: the first cycle, in November 2020, will be performed in concert version, as of now.

Other streamings are available from the following organzations:

• Vienna State Opera makes available classic performances via daily streaming, including all of their 2015 Ring Cycle. Learn more here.
• Oper Frankfurt: for more information on their exciting and innovative productions, click here.
• Staatsoper Unter den Linden: Click here for more.
• OperaVision provides free live and archival video streaming of opera performances from all over Europe, in venues large and small. For more info, and to add your email address to their email list, go here.
• YouTube has many offerings, including entertaining listening from WSNY's own library of programs and interviews, available here.
• Also on YouTube, check out La Fenice on You Tube - snippets
• Facebook also has many direct links to streaming videos of past performances, presented by opera companies from around the world.
• Opera America: a wide-ranging list. Something for everyone. https://operaamerica.org/applications/schedule/index.aspx