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SUMMARY:Bayreuth Artist Talk: Ekaterina Gubanova
DESCRIPTION:Join us in 2025 for the Bayreuth Artists Talks Series\, an engaging opportunity to connect with the exceptional performers of the Bayreuth Festival. These intimate sessions offer audiences a rare glimpse behind the scenes as artists reflect on their careers\, share insights into their roles and creative processes\, and discuss the unique experience of performing at Bayreuth. With a relaxed and informal setting\, these conversations provide a deeper understanding of the works the artists bring to life on stage\, making each event a memorable encounter with the people behind the music. \nEkaterina Gubanova (2025: Kundry in Parsifal\, Brangäne in Tristan und Isolde; Venus in Tannhäuser 2019-24) is acknowledged as one of the leading mezzos of our days. Born in Moscow she first studied piano before being trained as an opera singer at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatoire\, the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki and as a member of the Young Artists Program at the Royal Opera House in London. Since then\, she regularly guests at the major opera houses and festivals worldwide\, such as the Metropolitan Opera New York\, the Lyric Opera Chicago\, La Scala in Milano\, the Rome Opera\, the Royal Opera House Covent Garden\, the Opera national de Paris\, the Vienna State Opera\, the Bavarian State Opera\, the Berlin State Opera\, the Hamburg State Opera\, the Bolshoi Theatre\, the Mariinsky Theatre\, the Gran Teatro del Liceu Barcelona\, the Teatro Real Madrid as well as the Bayreuth festival. \nThe 2024/25 season sees Ekaterina Gubanova in new productions of Das Rheingold (Fricka) at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich\, and Rusalka (Foreign Princess) at the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples. Later in the season\, she also returns to the Paris Opera for Don Carlos and to the Vienna State Opera for a new production of Tannhäuser. \nThis in-person-only event will take place at the Arvena Kongress Hotel in Bayreuth\, Germany.\nTickets are $15 in advance online\, €15 cash or credit card at the door. Get the Series: all five artists talks plus Parsifal Mythologies for $60 (a $30 savings). Pre-purchase is recommended to expedite entry and seating.
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/bayreuth-artist-talk-gubanova/
LOCATION:Arvena Kongress Hotel\, Eduard-Bayerlin Str. 5a\, Bayreuth\, 95445\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Bayreuth
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SUMMARY:Book Talk: Performing Wagner
DESCRIPTION:Stephen Gould \nAn event to celebrate the life of Stephen Gould and the publication of his book Performing Wagner: A Singer’s Perspective on the Major Roles. Co-author Peter Phillips will relate how the book took form and lead a discussion on some of the many interesting insights that Gould offers on Wagner’s heroic characters. \nAt the time of his early death in autumn 2023\, the internationally renowned American Heldentenor Stephen Gould was putting the finishing touches to this unusual book\, where he shares his unique insights into Wagner’s major tenor roles: Tannhäuser\, Tristan\, Siegfried\, Siegmund and Loge in The Ring of the Nibelung\, Lohengrin\, Erik in The Flying Dutchman and Parsifal. Basing his understanding on the experience of hundreds of performances around the world\, he describes how he learned to inhabit each character\, portraying motivation in a manner that matches Wagner’s music with narrative cohesion on stage. He also discusses what he learned from working with conductors and stage directors and offers some thoughts on vocal technique. \n\n\n\nThere are countless books on Wagner and his operas; this one may be the first to put the reader in the shoes of the interpreter – a novel perspective which should be of interest to students\, teachers\, directors\, Wagner commentators and audience members\, as well as to other performers and to musicians more generally. The book opens with a preface by Katharina Wagner\, the composer’s great-granddaughter and director of the Bayreuth Festival\, and ends with tributes to Stephen Gould from some of the leading Wagner singers of the day.
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/book-talk-performing-wagner/
LOCATION:Arvena Kongress Hotel\, Eduard-Bayerlin Str. 5a\, Bayreuth\, 95445\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Bayreuth,Book Signing
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240822T103000
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SUMMARY:Bayreuth Talk: Soprano Catherine Foster
DESCRIPTION:Exploring the works in-depth with the artists performing in the Festival\, we continue our series of Artists’ Talks in 2024. These performers will discuss their careers\, the challenges and rewards of working at Bayreuth\, and answer audience questions in an informal atmosphere. \nOn Thursday\, 22 August we welcome soprano Catherine Foster\, who will be singing Brünnhilde in Die Walküre\, Siegfried\, and Götterdämmerung in the Ring Cycle at this year’s festival. \nCatherine Foster is one of the leading dramatic sopranos worldwide and has set herself apart internationally through her work with the Wagnerian repertoire. She is considered one of the most important soloists to have appeared over the last decade at the Bayreuth Festival and it is telling that she performed not just Isolde\, but also Brünnhilde in both Götterdämmerung and Die Walküre in the 2023 festival. \nIn the 2023-24 season Catherine has appeared in the title role of Puccini’s Turandot at the Hamburg State Opera\, Teatro del Liceu Barcelona\, Opéra de Dijon\, and the Deutsche Oper Berlin. She sang Isolde in Tristan und Isolde in Barrie Kosky’s critically acclaimed production in Essen\, as well as Brünnhilde in Die Walküre in Greek National Opera’s first-ever staging of the work. She was presented with the prestigious Reginald Goodall Prize by the London Wagner Society for her outstanding dedication to the music of Richard Wagner. \nThis in-person-only event will take place at the Arvena Kongress Hotel in Bayreuth\, Germany.\nTickets are $20 in advance online\, 20 € cash or credit card at the door. Pre-purchase is recommended to expedite entry and seating.
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/bayreuth-talk-soprano-catherine-foster/
LOCATION:Arvena Kongress Hotel\, Eduard-Bayerlin Str. 5a\, Bayreuth\, 95445\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Bayreuth
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SUMMARY:Bayreuth Talk: Bass Tobias Kehrer
DESCRIPTION:Exploring the works in-depth with the artists performing in the Festival\, we continue our series of Artists’ Talks in 2024. These performers will discuss their careers\, the challenges and rewards of working at Bayreuth\, and answer audience questions in an informal atmosphere. \nOn Wednesday\, 21 August we welcome bass Tobias Kehrer\, who will be performing Fafner in Das Rheingold and Siegfried and Titurel in Parsifal. \nTobias Kehrer\, born in Dessau\, started his musical education with private singing lessons and studied at the Universität der Künste in Berlin with Professor Siegfried Lorenz. He joined the Deutsche Oper Berlin as a company member in 2012 and developed roles in Die Entführung aus dem Serail\, Der fliegende Holländer\, Don Giovanni\, Die Zauberflöte\, Jeanne d’Arc\, Rienzi\, Il barbiere di Siviglia\, La Bohème\, Rigoletto\, and Elektra. He has appeared at the Bayreuth Festival since 2018 and engaged to sing the Nachtwächter in the new Meistersinger production in 2025. \nThis in-person-only event will take place at the Arvena Kongress Hotel in Bayreuth\, Germany. \nTickets are $20 in advance online\, 20 € cash or credit card at the door. Pre-purchase is recommended to expedite entry and seating.
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/bayreuth-talk-bass-tobias-kehrer/
LOCATION:Arvena Kongress Hotel\, Eduard-Bayerlin Str. 5a\, Bayreuth\, 95445\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Bayreuth
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SUMMARY:Bayreuth Talk: Bass-Baritone Nicholas Brownlee
DESCRIPTION:Exploring the works in-depth with the artists performing in the Festival\, we continue our series of Artists’ Talks in 2024. These performers will discuss their careers\, the challenges and rewards of working at Bayreuth\, and answer audience questions in an informal atmosphere. \nOn Tuesday\, 20 August we welcome bass-baritone Nicholas Brownlee\, who will be performing Donner in Das Rheingold at the festival this season. \nNicholas Brownlee\, from Mobile\, Alabama\, is a member of the ensemble at Oper Frankfurt\, and winner of the Zarzuela prize at Operalia as well as a grand prize winner of The Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions. He has enjoyed success with roles such as Kurwenal\, Hans Sachs\, Der Holländer\, Jochanaan in Salome\, Der Geisterbote in Die Frau ohne Schatten\, Colline in La Bohème\, Méphistophélès\, Amonasro\, Leporello\, and Caspar in Der Freischütz. \nThis in-person-only event will take place at the Arvena Kongress Hotel in Bayreuth\, Germany. \nTickets are $20 in advance online\, 20 € cash or credit card at the door. Pre-purchase is recommended to expedite entry and seating.
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/bayreuth-talk-bass-baritone-nicholas-brownlee/
LOCATION:Arvena Kongress Hotel\, Eduard-Bayerlin Str. 5a\, Bayreuth\, 95445\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Bayreuth
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20240819T103000
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DTSTAMP:20240816T152720Z
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SUMMARY:Bayreuth Talk: Conductor Simone Young
DESCRIPTION:Exploring the works in-depth with the artists performing in the Festival\, we continue our series of Artists’ Talks in 2024. These performers will discuss their careers\, the challenges and rewards of working at Bayreuth\, and answer audience questions in an informal atmosphere. \nOn Monday\, 19 August we welcome conductor Simone Young\, who will be conducting the Ring Cycle at this year’s festival. \nSimone Young is currently chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and from 2005-15 was the General Manager and Music Director of the Hamburg State Opera. After completing her musical studies in her native Sydney\, Ms. Young began her career on the podium in Germany. This launched her international career\, which has taken her to nearly all the most important opera houses and symphony orchestras around the world. Ms. Young is well known as a Wagner and Strauss specialist\, a reputation she developed early in her career when she conducted multiple complete cycles of Wagner’s “Ring” at the Vienna State Opera and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden in Berlin\, as well as his Walküre and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg along with Strauss’ Elektra\, Salome\, Die Frau Ohne Schatten and Ariadne auf Naxos\, and also with a new production of Hans Pfitzner’s Palestrina at the Bavarian State Opera. \nThis in-person-only event will take place at the Arvena Kongress Hotel in Bayreuth\, Germany. \nTickets are $20 in advance online\, 20 € cash or credit card at the door. Pre-purchase is recommended to expedite entry and seating.
URL:https://wagnersocietyny.org/event/bayreuth-talk-conductor-simone-young/
LOCATION:Arvena Kongress Hotel\, Eduard-Bayerlin Str. 5a\, Bayreuth\, 95445\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Artist Talk,Bayreuth
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