Wagner Society events held in 2010

21 February,
Goethe Institut
12.45pm: DVD – Act 2 of Parsifal 

2pm: T
he operas Wagner almost wrote by Peter Bassett
28 March,
Goethe Institut
12.30pm: DVD – Act 3 of Parsifal 

2pm: Lifting the Lid on Wagner’s Piano [covering Wagner and the Piano & Wagnerism and the Piano] by Professor Heath Lees
18 April,
Goethe Institut
12.30pm: DVD – Act 1 of Tristan und Isolde broadcast live from Bayreuth in 2009

2pm: Wagner and the Politics of Friendship by Dr Terence Watson, who asked the question, ‘What would we have had to do for Wagner to count us among his friends?’
23 May,
Goethe Institut
12.30pm: DVD – Act 2 of Tristan und Isolde broadcast live from Bayreuth in 2009

2.00pm:
– Annual General Meeting
– Recital by Emma Moore (soprano), Anna Dowsley (mezzo soprano), Thomas Johnson (Associate Artist), and Simon Halligan (baritone) with Sharolyn Kimmorley (piano)
– Celebration of the 197th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s birth (on 22 May 1813) 


Program
1 August,
Goethe Institut
12.30pm: DVD – Act 3 of Tristan und Isolde broadcast live from Bayreuth in 2009

2pm: Stephen Whale recital:
Brahms (1833-1897): Zwei Rhapsodien Op. 79 Two Rhapsodies – B Minor and G Minor; Haydn (1732- 1809): Keyboard Sonata in E Flat Major, Hob. XVI 49 (No.59); Schubert (1797-1828): Piano Sonata No. 14 in A minor (“Grande Sonate”), D. 784 (Op. posth. 143)
19 September,
Goethe Institut
12.30pm: DVD – Act 1 of Lohengrin from Munich 2009 conducted by Kent Nagano with Jonas Kaufmann in the title role

2.00pm:
– Report back on Lohengrin by members attending Bayreuth 2010
– Recital: mezzo Anna Yun and baritone Mitchell Riley with accompanist Jack Symonds: songs of Robert Schumann and Schubert and extract from Bach’s St Matthew Passion

24 October,

Chauvel Cinema, Paddington

New York Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Das Rheingold, being screened at the Chauvel Cinema, Paddington

21 November, Goethe Institut12.30pm: DVD – Act 2 of Lohengrin from Munich 2009 conducted by Kent Nagano with Jonas Kaufmann in the title role

2pm: Christmas Party and Wagner Bazaar
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