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  • Talk with Metropolitan Opera Concertmaster David Chan

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

    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

  • Recent Wagner Productions

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

    Description: Our well-traveled Society members reported on productions of Wagner operas in the U.S. and abroad, including Opera Atlanta’s Das Rheingold, the Bayreuth Festival’s Parsifal, and Ring Cycles in Budapest and Vienna. We also had a presentation by bass-baritone Joseph Parrish, our 2023 Bayreuth stipendiat, and a talk with two young WSNY members about their […]

  • Annual Meeting

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

    The purpose of the Annual Meeting is to elect the 2023-24 Board of Directors and to hear reports of the 2022-23 Officers and Committees, and to conduct any other business that may be properly raised.

  • Maestro Thomas Guggeis on Conducting Wagner

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

    Maestro Thomas Guggeis shared his insights into the challenges of conducting the Ring in Berlin and Der fliegende Holländer at the Metropolitan Opera, with particular emphasis on the influence of bel canto tradition in Wagner’s vocal writing. Thomas Guggeis created an international stir in March 2018 when he was tapped to take over a highly […]

  • Wagner & German Nationalism with Prof. Michael P. Steinberg

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

    Description: Prof. Michael P. Steinberg of Brown University and co-curator of the recent exhibit in Berlin’s German Historical Museum explained the influence of Wagner on German nationalism in the mid-19th century and its lasting impact on German self-identity. As Prof. Steinberg explained to The New York Times, “You can’t have a naïve and beautiful production […]

  • Wagner’s Music in Classic Hollywood Cartoons

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

    Description: Scholarship met fun in this delightful evening. Prof. Goldmark opened our eyes to the pervasive presence of Richard Wagner in the popular American culture of the mid 20th Century. Profusely illustrated by clips of hilarious cartoons such as the classic What’s Opera, Doc? which is the source of the immortal lines, “Kill the wabbit” […]

  • Maestro Pappano on Meistersinger

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

    Sir Antonio Pappano, conductor of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Met and Music director of the Royal Opera House, was interviewed by Fred Cohn at this exclusive WSNY event, which took place live at the National Opera Center in New York City.