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Reports from Bayreuth: Meistersinger Panel Discussion

National Opera Center 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY, United States
Hybrid Event

Our annual event highlighting the summer festival season, this year we devote our program to the Bayreuth Festival's new production premiere: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg directed by Matthias Davids. Join us in a panel discussion discussing this work in context with those who attended the Festival, examining how the musical and dramatic interpretation reframe Meistersinger within today’s cultural landscape, sparking debate about tradition, innovation, and Wagner’s enduring relevance.

Free – $15.00

Book Launch: Wagner and the Creation of the Ring

National Opera Center 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY, United States
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Join the Wagner Society of New York in a special U.S. Book Release: Story of the Century: Wagner and the Creation of the Ring and a talk by its author Michael Downes. Part cultural history, part biography, this is the fascinating story of Richard Wagner’s life, influences, gift for storytelling, and artistic revolution, culminating in his dramatic journey to write The Ring Cycle. Downes states that "the Ring is a story not only from the nineteenth century, but also about it."

Free – $15.00

Anton Bruckner & Richard Wagner

National Opera Center 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY, United States
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Conductor Jakob Lehmann presents an exploration of the fascinating relationship between Anton Bruckner and Richard Wagner - a connection that was characterized by one-sided admiration and disappointed hopes. The younger revered the elder, even if the latter did not always fulfill his few promises. For Bruckner, however, Wagner always remained the 'master of all masters.'

Free – $15.00

Wagnerian Techniques in Film Scores: Howard Shore’s Lord of the Rings

National Opera Center 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY, United States
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In his decades-long career as a musician, Doug Adams has remained in-demand as a performer, a composer/arranger, an author, and a lecturer.  He was selected by Howard Shore to observe and document his work on The Lord of the Rings films – a score performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra, eventually exceeding 13 hours, and consistently cited as one of the best film scores ever written.

Free – $15.00

A View from the Prompter’s Box with Craig Rutenberg

National Opera Center 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY, United States
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Former Head of Music Staff at the Metropolitan Opera, Craig Rutenberg explains what a prompter does, what preparation prompters undergo in a particular production, and how a good prompter can rescue performers from disaster. He will also discuss the various responsibilities of the music staff at the Met — from rehearsal pianist to diction coach to assistant conductor to prompter.

Free – $15.00

Reports from the 2024 Bayreuth Festival

National Opera Center 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY, United States
Hybrid Event

This annual event provides the unique opportunity for our members to learn some of the events and developments in this year’s Bayreuth Festival.  We will offer an illustrated discussion of the new production of Tristan und Isolde starring Andreas Schager and Camilla Nylund; receive a report from a Society member on his first visit to the Festival; hear from the three young artists whom the Society sponsored as part of the Festival’s Scholarship Program; and welcome a special guest, American bass Jordan Shanahan, who sang the role of Klingsor in the Jay Scheib “augmented reality” production of Parsifal.

Free – $15.00

Six Part Course: “Wagner: Questions of Influence and Originality”

National Opera Center 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY, United States

A six-part course , “Wagner: Questions of Influence and Originality,” poses the question: To what degree is any artist original? What role do the achievements of other artists, earlier and contemporary, play in influencing a composer as “original” as Richard Wagner?  Wagner occupies a special position in the history of music, both for his body of work and for his influence. Wagner’s own development was not linear; the past, present, and future of opera are present in all his works.

$300.00 – $375.00

Stephen Gould Book Launch & Annual Meeting

National Opera Center 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY, United States
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An 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.

Free

Wagner From a Queer Perspective

National Opera Center 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY, United States
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An exploration of recent works of interest to queer Wagnerians and the homosexuality of key people in Wagner’s circle (such as King Ludwig II and Wagner’s son Siegfried), Wagner’s fetishes with respect to satin and perfume, the unorthodox sexual relationships and ethics in Wagner’s life and works, and LGBTQ+ devotees to Wagner’s operas from the 19th century to today.

Free – $15.00

Art & Social Transformation

National Opera Center 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY, United States
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Professor Larry Wolff joins us to discuss Wagner's convictions of "Art and Social Transformation."

Free – $15.00

“Long Live America!”: Wagner and the New World

National Opera Center 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY, United States
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Scholar Hans Vaget returns to offer thoughts on Wagner's relationship with America.

Free – $15.00

Talk with Metropolitan Opera Concertmaster David Chan

National Opera Center 330 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY, United States
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Description: Our guest speaker, Maestro David Chan, in his 24th season as concertmaster of New York's Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, which performs almost daily under a constantly changing series of conductors.  Mr. Chan discussed those challenges, as well as his experiences as an orchestral conductor in the United States and in Europe. Mr. Chan is a […]

Free – $15.00