Bayreuth Festival Highlights: German Bravo-Casas on Siegfried Wagner’s life and career; John Muller on the new production of Tannhäuser ; Scott Carlton on the anniversary of Wolfgang Wagner’s birth and his years as Director of the Bayreuth Festival.
Eve Queler on Conducting Wagner, with booksigning of her memoir A View from the Podium.
Francesca Zambello and Die Feen, with cast members and production team scheduled for The Glimmerglass Festival.
Reception in honor of Stephen Gould, heldentenor (appearing with NY Philharmonic), with interview.
Saul Lilienstein: “Wagner and Brahms: The War of the Romantics.”
Film of Der fliegende Holländer, directed by Joachim Herz, with introduction by Hilan Warshaw.
Alex Ross in conversation with Prof. Heath Lees (in New Zealand) on Ross' recent book.
Jeffrey Swann, pianist and lecturer: "New Year's Concert."
Prof. Harlow Robinson. "The Russian Parsifal?: Rimsky-Korsakov and the Invisible City of Kitezh."