HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL VIDEO OF THIS PROGRAM: https://youtu.be/fG_AiOQZYjE HERE IS A LINK TO THE FULL FILM SOFT VALKYRIE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-Q_3bcdu8g&t=3553s Writing to Brahms in 1875, Wagner described… Continue reading Soft Valkyrie with David Kanaga

"The potion drunk, the lovers exposed - they will yearn for each other for the rest of their days...." Live on Zoom, Desirée Mays will introduce a video performance of… Continue reading The Lover’s Bane: The story of Tristan and Yseult as told in Medieval Art and Literature – a Zoom Presentation with Desiree Mays

HERE IS A LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL VIDEO OF THIS PRESENTATION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEOHxGrkIyo When Franz Lachner was conducting Wagner’s Der fliegende Holländer in Munich in 1864, he is famously reported to have… Continue reading Der Fliegende Hollander – After the Storm, a Zoom Talk with Jeffrey Buller

HERE IS A LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL VIDEO OF THIS PRESENTATION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-snfkvxiRU Join us for a casual meet-up and dinner at the sehr echt Suppenküche in San Francisco's Hayes Valley… Continue reading 2025 Wagner Birthday Party

HERE IS A LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL VIDEO OF THIS PRESENTATION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA12I6m81pg Well-known to Wagner Society members from his previous talks to the Society as well at other venues around… Continue reading The Quest for the Grail: Parsifal by the Bay with Kip Cranna

HERE IS THE LINK TO AN ARCHIVAL VIDEO OF THIS PRESENTATION: https://youtu.be/Aa1yHE6GuD8 This pair of lectures is a shortened version of a 4-session course that Nicolas Krusek taught in conjunction with Simon Fraser University in British Columbia. The love/hate relationship of Wagner and Nietzsche is one of the most famous and controversial parts of the… Continue reading Wagner and Nietzsche – Part 1 of a two-part lecture series with Nicolas Krusek

HERE IS THE LINK TO AN ARCHIVAL VIDEO OF THIS PRESENTATION: https://youtu.be/UxJhxTaljmM?si=vOW4vta8GiI0ztxd This pair of lectures is a shortened version of a 4-session course that Nicolas Krusek taught in conjunction… Continue reading Wagner and Nietzsche – Part 2 of a two-part lecture series with Nicolas Krusek

HERE IS THE LINK TO AN ARCHIVAL VIDEO OF THIS PRESENTATION: https://youtu.be/dN0HYfzd3-o Continuing our series of lectures that focus on Parsifal, Paul Schofield will offer his fascinating insights on Wagner's works. His book, "The Redeemer Reborn: Parsifal as the Fifth Opera of Wagner's Ring" shows how Parsifal in fact completes the Ring Cycle. Schofield explains… Continue reading The Redeemer Reborn, Parsifal as the Fifth Opera of Wagner’s Ring with Paul Schofield

HERE IS THE LINK TO AN ARCHIVAL VIDEO OF THIS PRESENTATION: https://youtu.be/KKctjlA29Wo This talk looks at the ways that concepts of “the sacred” (religious, spiritual) in Parsifal are conceived according to a dichotomy of outside and inside spaces, natural and man-made: the “Grail Realm” (a protected natural space) and the Grail Temple (an exclusionary constructed space).  This dichotomy… Continue reading Outside/Inside: Sacred Spaces in Parsifal with Prof. Thomas Grey

THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED TO  NEW BOOKINGS. Here is our video invitation for this event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEGNHYwdfHQ Join us for the 2025 edition of our traditional "Cosima Party" this year… Continue reading 2025 Cosima Wagner Holiday Celebration Brunch with Special Guest Star Klaus Florian Vogt

Join us for our first in-person meeting of the new year. Tenor and educator, Richard Cox, will speak about aspects of teaching voice, both in general and as it relates… Continue reading Richard Cox on Teaching Voice

HERE IS THE LINK TO AN ARCHIVAL VIDEO OF THIS PRESENTATION: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_bFehhlW0g Join us for this Zoom talk by F. Peter Phillips, President of the New York Wagner Society, who… Continue reading Performing Wagner: A Singer’s Perspective on the Major Tenor Roles with F. Peter Phillips