Society events held in 1987

1 - 5pm: CD - Parsifal

7.30 for 8pm: Annual ‘Wagner’s Birthday’ Dinner

Guest of Honour: dramatic soprano Sandra Hahn who sang Dich teure Halle, Liebestod and Einsam in trübenTagen by Wagner and Ritorna Vincitor from Aida

1 - 5pm: CD - Tristan und Isolde, with Peter Hofman, Hildegard Behrens and Hans Sotin, conducted by Leonard Bernstein

3pm: Reception for Michael Hampe, Director, Cologne Opera

1pm: CD - The Gurrelieder by Arnold Schoenberg

Speaker: John Wregg, resident producer with AO, who gave his impressions of productions in Europe

Seminar on Lohengrin:

- 'Cuts and Omissions in Performances' by Dr Leonard Hansen

- 'A Musical analysis of Lohengrin' by Professor Dennis Hennig

- 'Myths of the Holy Grail and the Swan Knight' by Professor Andrew Riemer

- Panel discussion on the Lohengrin production comprising the speakers, Stuart Challender and Elizabeth Connell

- Swan's farewell sung by Virginia Lamb

Reception for Elizabeth Connell

1 - 5pm: CD - Der Freischütz by Weber, singers including Rene Kollo, Hildegard Behrens, Helen Donath and Kurt Moll

Performance of Lohengrin

Supper hosted by the Society. Invited guests included Conductor, Principals and Production Staff, General Manager and Musical Director of AO

1pm: CD - shorter Wagner works including Wesendonck Lieder and Siegfried Idyll

3 - 5.30pm: Recital on piano and flute by Muriel Cohen and Rosamund Plummer, in the home of His Honour Judge Frank McGrath and Dr Amy McGrath:

- two Bach sonatas for flute and piano

- Debussy's En Bateau arranged for flute

- the premiere performance of a piece by Dulcie Holland, based on an earlier study for piano

- Liszt transcriptions of works by Wagner - Lohengrin's reproach to Elsa, Das Liebesverbot, Elsa's Dream and the gradual approach of the Pilgrims.

1 - 5pm: CD - Die Feen (1983 recording at Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich, with Kurt Moll and Linda Esther, and conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch)