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SUMMARY:Das Liebesverbot - Pocket Opera's No Love Allowed with Jonathan Khuner
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/tyKdHDGUnII \nIn this live presentation\, Maestro Jonathan Khuner introduced the members to Das Liebesverbot\, a rarely performed Wagner Opera. At this meeting Khuner described the Pocket Opera Production\, provided background about this early Wagner Opera and we enjoyed musical excerpts from the opera by Soprano Leslie Sandefur who sang the role of Isabella and Alexa Anderson who sang the role of Mariana. \n 
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/das-liebesverbot-pocket-operas-no-love-allowed-with-jonathan-khuner/
LOCATION:Jewish Community Center – San Francisco\, 3200 California Street\, San Francisco\, CA\, 94118\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220320T130000
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SUMMARY:A Visit to the Steingraeber Piano Manufactory - Bayreuth Germany
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/ouoiLG9Eo4c \nCome with us as we visit with Udo Steingraeber\, General Manager Steingraeber Piano Manufactory and Museum in Bayreuth\, where the Steingraeber family has produced pianos since 1852 and provided fine pianos to many of the greatest composers including Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner. In this visit we will learn about the history of the Steingraeber workshop and how their innovations created the foundations for the modern piano.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/a-visit-to-the-steingraber-piano-factory-bayreuth-germany/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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SUMMARY:The Bayreuth Stipendiat Experience with Cesar Cañon
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/4Vn-wQH4qSk \nIn 2021 the Wagner Society was very delighted to provide a Bayreuth Stipendiat Scholarship to former Adler Fellow Cesar Cañon. Cañon graciously joined us from Oslo\, Norway and shared with us the Stipendiat experience. His webinar included many observations\, experiences and some videos of his trip to Bayreuth. \n 
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/the-bayreuth-stipendiat-experience-with-cesar-canon/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220115T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220115T143000
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SUMMARY:Götterdämmerung: To End at the Beginning with Jeffrey Buller - a Zoom Presentation
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/8HPf4WP4-jo \nGötterdämmerung has\, of course\, one of the most famous endings in all of operatic history. But how did that ending come about? By exploring the gradual evolution of Brünnhilde’s immolation scene\, we come to recognize certain patterns that are present\, not just in the final work of the Ring\, but in all the preceding operas of the cycle. We also gain insight into how Wagner wove together concepts he drew from German and Scandinavian literature\, Greek epics and tragedy\, Eastern and nineteenth-century philosophy\, the politics of his time\, and other sources to create a work that operates on many different levels simultaneously and that constantly brings audiences new experiences through different performances and stagings. \nJeffrey L. Buller was born in Wisconsin and holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has held academic or administrative positions at Loras College\, Georgia Southern University\, Mary Baldwin College\, and Florida Atlantic University. Known to different publics as a classicist\, scholar of Wagnerian music drama\, expert in academic administration\, and novelist; Buller has lectured and performed consultancies all over the world. From 2003-2005\, he served as the English language lecturer at Bayreuth Festival. From 2009 through 2019\, he worked closely with King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals and the Ministry of Education in Saudi Arabia\, providing administrative training and helping to create a comprehensive new Academic Leadership Center. He has published extensively on academic leadership as well as a series of mystery novels on operatic themes (Mysteries on an Operatic Scale). His Wagner specific works include “Eternal Dreamer\, the Imagery of Richard Wagner” and “Classically Romantic\, Classical Form and Meaning in Wagner’s Ring”.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/gotterdammerung-to-end-at-the-beginning-with-jeffrey-buller-a-zoom-presentation-2862/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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SUMMARY:Cosima Wagner Holiday Celebration
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/mtYTznr-wMA \nWe will close out the year in style with the traditional Holiday Celebration – The Cosima Wagner Birthday/Holiday Celebration. \nWe are thrilled to announce our musical guest artists for the Cosima Celebration. Our vocalist is Eugene Richards III\, bass baritone\, and our accompanist is Dennis Doubin who has been on the music staff of the San Francisco Opera as well as other companies\, was a participant in both the Merola and Adler Fellowship programs and was conductor of the Vegas-style Ring we recently enjoyed. Eugene Richards has spent the last three years studying with dramatic soprano Luana DeVol\, and the past three summers was part of Dolora Zajick’s Institute for Young Dramatic Voices in Reno\, NV\, in the American Wagner Project division. In 2017\, this study of Wagner led to his being selected as 1 of 16 finalists in the Lauritz Melchior International Vocal Competition in Aalborg\, Denmark. Richards participated in The Miami Music Festival in their Wagner program where he covered Alan Held as Wotan in Die Walküre and sang King Heinrich in Lohengrin. Richards sang the role of Wotan in the Vegas City Ring Production. \nThe Marines Memorial Club has informed us of their Covid Protocol for this event. Please be advised that as long as current SF County Health protocols remain in effect\, all attendees will be required to provide proof of full vaccination and remain masked when not singing\, eating and/or savoring wine.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/cosima-wagner-holiday-celebration-2774/
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SUMMARY:William Berger - "Racism and Systemic Hate in the Arts: Problems and Solutions from Wagner"
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/cybjwIUbgt0 \nFor Saturday November 13th the WSNC is delighted to let you know that we have organized a live meeting in San Francisco at the JCC-SF. We welcome a WSNC favorite\, William Berger\, author\, broadcaster and feature presenter for the Metropolitan Opera. \nLast March\, William Berger led a webinar for SF Opera titled “Confronting Controversy in Wagner”\, focusing on The Ring of the Nibelung. He has since been expanding this inquiry\, both deeper into Wagner specifically (Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg) and into all the arts and beyond. Instead of merely “blaming” Wagner for the problems in art\, and shaming fans of these works\, the goal is to confront the problems\, find equally potent solutions within the same art (because they are there)\, and use our experience as Wagner fans to provide ideas for everyone as we rebuild our artistic culture in today’s post-COVID world. \nWilliam Berger has been touring the country ostensibly to promote his new books (“Speaking of Wagner: Talking to Audiences About The Ring of the Nibelung” and “Seeking the Sublime Cache: Opera Articles Written and Selected by William Berger”) but\, actually\, to listen to people’s concerns and ideas about this pivotal moment in cultural history – what he calls a “1918 moment that changes everything.” He has conversed with such vocal luminaries as Jamie Barton (Chicago) and Morris Robinson (Los Angeles)\, and will conclude this tour in San Francisco to share these ideas as they have evolved through recent\, all-too-interesting times. \nThis meeting will come with restrictions due to the San Francisco City and County protocols. As it stands right now we are only permitted to admit fully vaccinated\, dues-paid WSNC Members (sorry\, no guests or plus ones)\, everyone must be masked (mouth and nose covered at all times when within the building) and no eating will be permitted in the room. The meeting size is restricted to 50 members.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/william-berger-racism-and-systemic-hate-in-the-arts-problems-and-solutions-from-wagner-2773/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211010T143000
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SUMMARY:“Flat Bayreuth: Multimedia Challenges in Wagner’s 1876 Ring Production” with Dr. Gundula Kreuzer
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/PSpHqSYD4Bs \nA WSNC Zoom Webinar with Yale Professor Dr. Gundula Kreuzer. Professor Kreuzer recently published a book entitled “Curtain\, Gong\, Steam: Wagnerian Technologies of the 19th Century”. In her talk Professor Kreuzer will take us from Wagner’s theatrical times to the high-tech era which features the Francesca Zambello Production of Wagner’s Ring in San Francisco. \nGundula Kreuzer studied musicology\, philosophy\, and modern history at the Universities of Münster (Westphalia) and Oxford\, where she earned her Master of Studies and D.Phil. in musicology. She held a Junior Research (postdoctoral) Fellowship at Merton College\, Oxford\, before joining the Yale Department of Music in 2005. \nIn both her writing and her teaching\, Kreuzer approaches music from a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives\, such as social\, cultural\, and political history as well as theories of technology and multimedia. Her award-winning first book\, “Verdi and the Germans: From Unification to the Third Reich” (Cambridge University Press\, 2010)\, examines the changing impact of the popular Italian composer on German musical self-perception and national identity. Her second monograph\, “Curtain\, Gong\, Steam: Wagnerian Technologies of Nineteenth-Century Opera” (University of California Press\, 2018) addresses how composers since the late eighteenth century increasingly tried to control certain aspects of staging by embracing specific stage technologies. Focusing on the cultural resonances and hermeneutic potentials of the titular technologies of the curtain\, the tam-tam\, and steam before\, in\, and beyond Wagner\, the book develops a deeply contextualized practical perspective on the nature and ephemerality of staged opera as well as its legacies in contemporary culture.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/flat-bayreuth-multimedial-challenges-in-wagners-1876-ring-production-2772/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210911T130000
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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Opera Director Paul Curran
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/fmAFILB-y7M \nJoin the Wagner Society as we welcome internationally renowned opera director Paul Curran as our guest. This will be in standard Zoom format and we will have open mic Q & A available as questions arise. \nPaul Curran was born in Glasgow\, Scotland. He played clarinet in the Glasgow Schools Orchestra and saw his first opera (Scottish Opera’s production of Wozzeck) in 1980. Moving to London\, he trained as a ballet dancer at the London Studio Centre and the Central School of Ballet before studying with Sulamith Messerer. He worked for a time as an usher at English National Opera during the period when Lord Harewood\, Mark Elder and David Pountney formed the artistic management of the company. He then spent two years at the ballet school of the Finnish National Opera and then three years as a professional dancer with Scottish Ballet and in Germany. A hip injury terminated his ballet career\, and he worked as an interpreter and stage manager before\, at the age of twenty-seven\, entering the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney to study directing. Since then\, he has circled the globe directing in many of the great houses including the Metropolitan\, Santa Fe\, Chicago\, Covent Garden\, La Scala\, Wexford\, La Fenice\, and Naples. Curran also served as the General Director for the Norwegian National Opera and Ballet 2007-2011.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/zoom-meeting-in-conversation-with-opera-director-paul-curran-2771/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210710T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210710T143000
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SUMMARY:Jane Eaglen - In Conversation
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/NrhsR_HRxAQ \nOne of WSNC’s favorite Brünnhildes is the soprano Jane Eaglen. She has enjoyed one of the most careers in opera. Her performances of roles such as Isolde in Tristan und Isolde\, the title roles in Puccini’s Turandot\, Bellini’s Norma\, and Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos\, Brünnhilde in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen have earned her acclaim on stages of the leading opera houses of the world\, including the Metropolitan Opera\, Lyric Opera of Chicago\, San Francisco Opera\, Royal Opera House\, Covent Garden\, Teatro alla Scala\, Vienna State Opera\, and Opera National de Paris. \nWhile Eaglen is no longer performing\, she is active as a teacher. She joined New England Conservatory’s voice studio faculty beginning with the 2013–2014 academic year. In addition to her full-time teaching role at NEC\, she is cofounder and artistic director of the Wagner Intensive summer program held at Baldwin-Wallace University Conservatory of Music. She has also served as Senior Artist in Residence at the University of Washington School of Music\, Principal Vocal Instructor for the Young Artist Program of the Seattle Opera\, teaches periodically at the Cardiff International Academy of Voice\, and returns annually to teach and mentor young artists for the Merola Program at the San Francisco Opera. Ms. Eaglen also founded the Boston Wagner Institute (BWI) which will be training future Wagnerian singers along with a stellar team of Wagnerians including Katarina Dalayman\, Ben Heppner and Greer Grimsley. BWI is supported by the WSNC William O. Cord Memorial Grant Fund. https://necmusic.edu/boston-wagner-institute \nJoin us to hear about Ms. Eaglen’s illustrious career and her new project\, Premiere Opera Vocal Arts which will hold its first training sessions this summer. Joined by vocalists Barbara Frittoli\, Carol Vaness and Catherine Malfitano\, along with directors\, conductors and coaches promising young artists will explore the world of opera. https://premierevocalarts.com/
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/jane-eaglen-in-conversation-2749/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210619T130000
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SUMMARY:Maestro Dennis Doubin Presents: Wagner\, Vegas-style
DESCRIPTION:Videos of the Vegas City Ring are available on YouTube:\nDas Rheingold: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAYmzxgwDuo\nDie Walkure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXVilftD1hc\nSiegfried: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEmQs2AE6_4\nGotterdammerung: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukezj9Aj6k0 \nImagine each of the four Ring operas condensed into the highlights of story and leitmotif as the fantastical characters of Vegas City Opera’s Ring visit your front door and “Ring” your doorbell. The citywide spectacle culminated in a digital event at 7:00 PM on November 14th\, 2020 as the Vegas City Opera Company sang the entire Vegas saga in about an hour! Filming between September and November\, 2020. The project was developed with COVID-19 safety protocols in place. \nOur webinar guest is Grammy Award winning pianist and conductor Dennis Doubin. A Henderson Nevada resident\, Maestro Doubin has led Henderson Symphony and has served on the music staffs of the San Francisco Opera\, Santa Fe Opera\, LA Opera and others. He conducted a recording of Gordon Getty’s Goodbye Mr. Chips on Pentatone. \nHe can also be found coaching singers\, prompting performances\, and conducting backstage banda. A sought-after coach\, Dennis has coached and collaborated with some of today’s most important vocalists that include Renee Fleming\, Diana Damrau\, Leah Crocetto\, Dolora Zajick\, Ramon Vargas\, Brandon Jovanovich\, Michael Fabiano\, Stephen Costello\, Bryn Terfel\, George Gagnidze\, Ildar Abdrazakov and others.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/maestro-dennis-doubin-presents-wagner-vegas-style-2748/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210522T130000
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SUMMARY:Maifest - A Virtual Birthday Celebration for Richard Wagner
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/ozxwmE4Rulo \nJoin us for a virtual celebration of Richard Wagner’s Birthday with a MAIFEST. Following in the spirit of the successful virtual Cosima Party\, The Wagner Society will create another memorable event.\nMaifest celebrates the arrival of spring\, nature’s bright reawakening after winter’s cold and darkness. Maifest (Mayfest) has its roots in one of mankind’s oldest traditions! What was once an ancient pagan festival eventually took on Christian religious significance\, and has evolved to become a colorful\, joyous part of European history and culture\, with distinctive traditions like the Maibaum (May Pole). The Maifest tradition lives on in many communities in the United States\, the largest of which is held in Fort Worth\, TX (!).\nThe Maibaum (May Pole) is erected in the town square and celebrations culminate with young girls dancing around the May Pole and the crowning of the May Queen. Rival villages make sport out of the tradition by stealing the May Pole of neighboring communities.\nWSNC will try to capture the spirit with Food\, Wine and Beer recommendations for our attendees. A recital will also be presented for our viewers.\nWhile we cannot gather in person\, the Society will celebrate Richard with this unique event (on his actual birth date!).
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/maifest-a-birthday-celebration-for-richard-wagner-2745/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210417T130000
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SUMMARY:Jasmin Solfaghari discusses Humperdinck's "Dornröschen" aka "Sleeping Beauty"
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/Emx8jOq93rY \nIn 1902\, Dornröschen was Humperdinck’s 3rd opera. Following his very successful Hänsel und Gretel\, Dornröschen (Sleeping Beauty) is another opera based on a popular fairy tale. While it never gained the renown of Hänsel\, Humperdinck created a charming and graceful score for this work which is more similar to an operetta with its spoken dialog. \nAuthor\, director and master teacher Jasmin Solfaghari was recently engaged to direct this rarely performed work in Neustrelitz Germany. In her talk\, Solfaghari provides insight into this rarely performed opera and its unique orchestral writing. Solfaghari will illustrate her talk with numerous photos from the Neustrelitz production. \nSolfaghari was born in Freiburg\, Germany in 1963\, the daughter of German-Persian parents. After having spent the first six years of her childhood in Teheran\, Iran\, she got her early education in Freiburg. In 1989\, she graduated in stage directing at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg in the class of Götz Friedrich (diploma). Solfaghari continued to work as assistant to Friedrich and directed the final revival of Friedrich’s famed Berlin Ring. In 2018\, Solfaghari stepped in as director for The Ring of the Nibelung for the Odense Symfonieorkester and a cast e.g. Catherine Foster\, Torsten Kerl\, Lioba Braun\, Gerhard Siegel\, Jennifer Wilson\, James Johnson. \nShe has written Opernführer für Einsteiger (German-Alemannic; German-Saxonian (both 2017); German-Franconian (2019)\, “Opera Guide for Beginners” (Translated by Dr. Ursula and Alan Cemore)\, and Crashkurs Oper (both 2020). The English translation of this book was supported by a William O. Cord Grant from the Wagner Society of Northern Calfornia.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/humperdincks-dornroschen-webinar-2744/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210314T120000
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SUMMARY:Sleep in the Ring: How and Why Wagner Uses the Image of Sleep with Jeffrey Buller
DESCRIPTION:This webinar is anything but sleep inducing. Professor Jeffrey Buller. Jeffrey L. Buller has held academic or administrative positions at Loras College in Dubuque\, Iowa\, Georgia Southern University in Statesboro\, Georgia\, Mary Baldwin College in Staunton\, Virginia\, and Florida Atlantic University in Palm Beach County\, Florida. Known as a classicist\, scholar of Wagnerian music drama\, and expert in academic administration\, Buller has lectured and performed consultancies all over the world. From 2003-2005\, he served as the English language lecturer at the International Wagner Festival in Bayreuth\, Germany. \nRetired from academics\, Jeffrey L. Buller is currently a senior partner in ATLAS Leadership Training\, an international partnership that trains administrators and leaders in every aspect of their complex assignments. He holds a doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has published twenty other books on educational leadership as well as numerous articles\, including nearly two hundred on higher education administration.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/sleep-in-the-ring-a-study-of-how-and-why-wagner-uses-the-image-of-sleep-2740/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210220T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210220T143000
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SUMMARY:Anniversary Thoughts: Wagner's 'Beethoven' Essay of 1870 with Katherine Syer
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/NCSTg74pJ3E \nIn recognition of the 250th Anniversary of Beethoven’s birth\, The Wagner Society of Northern California welcomes Professor Katherine Syer to our webinar series. In her presentation Professor Syer discusses Wagner’s evolving response to Beethoven up that point in his life and the ways the essay is not ultimately so much about Ludwig van Beethoven\, but engages substantially with Schopenhauer in ways that tie back into key veins of Wagner’s artistic evolution (thereby allowing opportunities for music examples). \nProfessor Katherine Syer is an Adjunct Professor of Music and Musicology at the University of California Los Angeles\, Herb Alpert School of Music. Before joining the faculty at UCLA\, she taught opera and theatre history/production\, research methods\, dramaturgy\, and special topics courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, where she also served as the director of Graduate Studies and Area Head for Theatre Studies. Dr. Syer’s work on Wagner’s creative development and legacy has been published in The Wagner Journal\, Musical Quarterly\, Wagner and His World\, and A Companion to Wagner’s Parsifal. Her monograph “Wagner’s Visions: Poetry\, Politics\, and the Psyche in the Operas through Die Walküre” appeared in 2014 (Boydell and Brewer). She has offered production-related presentations for the Wagner Societies in Northern California\, New York\, and Chicago\, as well as at international scholarly conferences.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/webinar-anniversary-thoughts-wagners-beethoven-essay-of-1870-2719/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210109T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210109T103000
DTSTAMP:20261028T110518
CREATED:20201219T162800Z
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SUMMARY:Wagnerism - A Conversation with Alex Ross and Joshua Kosman
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/3W5UUUA3vYk \nNoted New Yorker Music Columnist Alex Ross discusses his monumental book “Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music” with San Francisco Chronicle Music Critic Joshua Kosman. \nDescribed by Bookshop.org : “In “Wagnerism”\, Alex Ross restores the magnificent confusion of what it means to be a Wagnerian. A pandemonium of geniuses\, madmen\, charlatans\, and prophets do battle over Wagner’s many-sided legacy. As readers of his brilliant articles for The New Yorker have come to expect\, Ross ranges thrillingly across artistic disciplines\, from the architecture of Louis Sullivan to the novels of Philip K. Dick\, from the Zionist writings of Theodor Herzl to the civil-rights essays of W.E.B. Du Bois\, from “O Pioneers!” to “Apocalypse Now”.”
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/wagnerism-a-conversation-with-alex-ross-and-joshua-kosman-2739/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201213T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201213T150000
DTSTAMP:20261028T110518
CREATED:20201210T013500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250322T005137Z
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SUMMARY:WSNC—Cosima Liszt Zoom Virtual Birthday Gala
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/rn6IX6F2fj0 \nWe are ending the year in traditional Wagner Society fashion under anything but typical circumstances. \nWe are unable to don our holiday finery\, gather together\, sip champagne\, dine and enjoy a concert in person at our much beloved Marine’s Memorial Club and Hotel. \nBut we are Wagnerians and we are also innovative and creative. \nThis years’ party will be held on Zoom. To enliven the celebration\, we will soon roll out “Postcards from Cosima”. These periodic e-mails will include: menu suggestions\, recipe demonstrations by Celebrity Chefs\, Wagnerian craft cocktails demonstrated by local mixologists\, a wallet-friendly wine menu complete with a tasting check list\, a drawing for prizes and MUSIC!  We have organized both pre-recorded music and LIVE music for everyone’s enjoyment. \nWe will end this year with gusto and share the fellowship of the Society to close out 2020 and look ahead to 2021. There is no charge for this WSNC Members Only event.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/wsnc-cosima-liszt-zoom-virtual-birthday-gala-2738/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201024T143000
DTSTAMP:20261028T110518
CREATED:20201029T145800Z
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SUMMARY:Wagner From Middle Ages to Modernity with Simon Williams
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/m41F2OvlLyY \nThe WSNC Webinar Series continues with Simon Williams presenting his talk “Wagner from the Middle Ages to Modernity”. In this talk Professor Williams discusses similarities and differences between Wagner’s use of the medieval landscape in Lohengrin and Tristan und Isolde. Williams will discuss how in Lohengrin Wagner provides us with the crowning masterpiece of Grand Opera and how\, in Tristan und Isolde\, Wagner moves in a very different direction which while not entirely abandoning the past points toward the modern theater.  \nSimon Williams was a Professor in the Department of Theater and Dance at the University of Santa Barbara for thirty years. He has taught at universities on four continents\, including the University of Regina\, of Alberta\, Cornell University and\, since 1984\, UCSB. He has published widely in the fields of European continental theatre\, the history of acting\, Shakespearean performance\, and operatic history. His major publications include German Actors of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Greenwood\, 1985)\, Shakespeare on the German Stage\, 1586-1914 (Cambridge\, 1990)\, Richard Wagner and Festival Theatre (Greenwood\, 1994)\, and Richard Wagner and the Romantic Hero (Cambridge\, 2004). He has contributed numerous articles in his fields of specialty in edited volumes and leading periodicals. He is also an active director and reviewer of opera. His current projects include co-editing A History of the German Theatre for Cambridge University Press and studies of Shakespeare in the eighteenth century and European opera in the nineteenth.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/webinar-wagner-from-middle-ages-to-modernity-2720/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200912T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200912T143000
DTSTAMP:20261028T110518
CREATED:20200802T233400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250322T010952Z
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SUMMARY:Das Liebesverbot (No Love Allowed) with Jonathan Khuner
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/estXmYaEZpk \nThe Wagner Society webinar series continues as the Society welcomes back Maestro Jonathan Khuner. Maestro Khuner will talk about Wagner’s early opera Das Liebesverbot which Pocket Opera plans to perform as “No Love Allowed” in an English translation. The performances have been postponed due to the restrictions imposed by the current Covid health and safety guidelines. \nJonathan Khuner will talk about Wagner’s influences and about his early opera Das Liebesverbot. There will be a lot of musical examples for this presentation. \nWell-known to the WSNC and to audiences in the greater Bay Area\, Jonathan Khuner served for many years on the music staffs of San Francisco Opera\, Lyric Opera of Chicago and the Metropolitan Opera as prompter and in musical preparation. Khuner now serves as the Music Director of West Edge Opera (formerly Berkeley Opera) and frequently conducts for Island City Opera (Alameda). For West Edge Opera\, Khuner recently conducted acclaimed performances of Three Penny Opera and Pelleas and Melisande. Khuner also conducted Tristan und Isolde and Nabucco for the Claude Heater Foundation.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/webinar-das-liebesverbot-no-love-allowed-with-jonathan-khuner-2715/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200808T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200809T120000
DTSTAMP:20261028T110518
CREATED:20200802T231100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250322T011343Z
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SUMMARY:Interview with Maestro Nicholas Braithwaite
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/q8o9a8fuG4Y \nThe WSNC Webinar Series continues with an interview with Maestro Nicholas Braithwaite. London-born Maestro Nicholas Braithwaite who is interviewed by WSNC President Terri Stuart. \nBased in Adelaide Australia\, Nicholas Braithwaite is a well known opera and symphony conductor throughout the UK\, Europe and Australia. Maestro Braithwaite has led performances of more than 70 operas\, including at the English National Opera where he conducted an acclaimed Ring Cycle. The son of a conductor\, Braithwaite experienced his first Bayreuth Festival as a child in 1951 and returned as a young musician to attend Friedelind Wagner’s Bayreuth Master Classes. Braithwaite studied at the Royal Academy of Music\, at the Festival masterclasses in Bayreuth and with Hans Swarowsky in Vienna. In the 1960s\, Braithwaite was Associate Conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. He served as Resident Conductor at Sadler’s Wells Opera for three seasons\, from 1971 to 1974\, where he conducted the Ring Cycle. After departing Sadler’s Wells in 1974\, Braithwaite held two important operatic posts. First as the Music Director of the Glyndebourne Touring Opera from 1976-1980\, and later\, in Gothenburg\, as Music Director at the Stora Theater Opera from 1981-1984. \nHe next began conducting both symphonic and operatic music in Australia\, eventually serving as Conductor of the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra from 1987-1991. During this time he also served as Principal Conductor of the Manchester Camerata. Braithwaite also held posts with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra\, Norwegian Radio Orchestra\, and several others. In the new century Braithwaite has been active in the recording studio and has freelanced in both opera and symphonic music. Among his available recordings is a series of some 30 CDs released by Lyrita. He recently published his autobiography\, “So What Does a Conductor do? A Life of Music.”
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/webinar-interview-with-maestro-nicholas-braithwaite-2714/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200725T143000
DTSTAMP:20261028T110518
CREATED:20200711T184900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250305T013412Z
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED! Anniversary Thoughts: Wagner's 'Beethoven' Essay of 1870
DESCRIPTION:WEBINAR POSTPONED – “Anniversary Thoughts: Wagner’s ‘Beethoven’ Essay of 1870.”\n\nThe Wagner Society of Northern California will welcomes Professor Katherine Syer to our webinar series at a later date. In her presentation Professor Syer will discuss Wagner’s evolving response to Beethoven up until that stage\, and the ways the essay is not ultimately so much about Ludwig van Beethoven\, but engages substantially with Schopenhauer in ways that tie back into key veins of Wagner’s artistic evolution (thereby allowing opportunities for music examples.)\n\nProfessor Katherine Syer is an Adjunct Professor of Music and Musicology at the University of California Los Angeles\, Herb Alpert School of Music. Before joining the faculty at UCLA\, Katherine Syer taught opera and theatre history/production\, research methods\, dramaturgy\, and special topics courses at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign\, where she most recently also served as the director of Graduate Studies and Area Head for Theatre Studies. Dr. Syer’s work on Wagner’s creative development and legacy has been published in The Wagner Journal\, Musical Quarterly\, Wagner and His World\, and A Companion to Wagner’s ‘Parsifal.’ Her monograph Wagner’s Visions: Poetry\, Politics\, and the Psyche in the Operas through ‘Die Walküre’ appeared in 2014 (Boydell and Brewer). She has offered production-related presentations for the Wagner Societies in Northern California\, New York\, and Chicago\, as well as at international scholarly conferences.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/postponed-anniversary-thoughts-wagners-beethoven-essay-of-1870-2703/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200718T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200718T143000
DTSTAMP:20261028T110518
CREATED:20200711T183800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250322T011619Z
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SUMMARY:Wagner in a Time of Political Stress - With William Berger
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/2I-qmfv7SKc \nWhat can we\, as Wagnerians\, learn from current events and what can our world and era learn from our experience as Wagnerians? \nThis is a time of political stress in that long-held assumptions are being reexamined. Language is reflecting this. We who struggle (or should) with the most politically volatile artist of all time can learn from the current narrative. We who have struggled (or should have) with the most politically volatile artist of all time\, have experience we can share with those who are now struggling (on every side) with our national iconography. \nOur webinar guest\, William Berger\, will look at Wagner’s works (especially Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and Der Ring des Nibelungen)\, productions – that is\, interpretations – of his works (briefly\, because that’s a whole world of its own)\, and\, mostly\, what people have said to define and mis-define them from his day to our own. By examining the course of Wagnerism in the light of current events\, we can elevate the discussion beyond its current stalemate between two untenable camps [i.e.\, the “cancellers” on the one hand and the “art should be apolitical” crowd on the other] and\, in the process\, share our discoveries with our divided nation. \nOur webinar guest is William Berger. Born in California in 1961\,  Berger studied Romance languages and musicology at the University of California Santa Cruz. For five years he worked at the San Francisco Opera\, being responsible for acquiring company’s records collection. As author\, he wrote such books on music and operatic composers as: “Wagner Without Fear” (1998)\, “Verdi with a Vengeance” (2000)\, “Puccini Without Excuses” (2005)\, all published by Random House\, and more recently “Speaking of Wagner: Talking to Audiences about Der Ring des Niebelungen” by Academia Press. He has also written opera libretti and articles on religion and architecture. \nBerger frequently gives lectures on operatic music and composers\, and is also a radio commentator and has recently been a regular host for New York Public Radio’s Overnight Music and WNYC radio. Since creation of the Metropolitan Opera Radio on Sirius in the Fall of 2006\, Berger writes all the commentaries heard intermissions of historical broadcasts. Berger is often a co-host during live Metropolitan Opera broadcasts and the moderator of the Met Opera Quiz.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/wagner-in-a-time-of-political-stress-with-william-berger-2702/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200627T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200627T143000
DTSTAMP:20261028T110518
CREATED:20200513T183700Z
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SUMMARY:The Wagner Dynasty & Changing Philosophies at Bayreuth
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/P7BGST67Gqo\n\n“Art is what matters here”\nDie Meistersinger\n\nFollowing her husband’s death in 1883\, Cosima Wagner ruled over the Bayreuth Festival with an iron will for 20 plus years. She was succeeded by her son\, Siegfried\, who maintained the family tradition until his death in 1930. His wife\, Winifred\, then took up the reins and directed the Festival through the tumultuous years of World War II. Faced with ruin in 1945\, Winifred’s sons\, Wieland and Wolfgang\, shared the job bringing the Festival back to life. At Wieland’s death\, Wolfgang took over and led the Festival for 50 years. Today the Festival is run by Katharina Wagner\, Wolfgang’s daughter\, . . . . . . The saga continues.\n\nMs Mays talk follows this line of succession in terms of the production values and changes over the years looking at the practical and creative responses of different family members to the great works of their forbear. The talk includes images and music excerpts.\nDesirée Mays\, the Preview speaker for The Santa Fe Opera for 20 years is a storyteller\, radio interviewer and producer\, reviewer and writer. She is the author of the Opera Unveiled book series\, Desirée lectures internationally for opera companies and Wagner Societies. Her radio shows include interviews with singers\, directors and conductors.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/the-wagner-dynasty-changing-philosophies-at-bayreuth-webinar-2681/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200606T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200606T143000
DTSTAMP:20261028T110518
CREATED:20200512T205300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250322T012303Z
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SUMMARY:Der fliegende Holländer and Wagner's Flight from Riga with Scott Foglesong
DESCRIPTION:HERE IS THE LINK TO THE ARCHIVAL RECORDING OF THIS EVENT: https://youtu.be/64u2Hi05EQ8 \nIn 1839\, Wagner’s fled Riga on the Thetis\, a smuggler’s ship. Richard and Minna dreamed of getting to Paris. Riga’s farewell to them was an enormous sea storm. It was this storm that the composer commemorated later in the famous overture to the Der fliegende Holländer. Using Wagner’s own writings and music\, Professor Foglesong will trace the route they took\, followed by a dissection of the overture’s themes and orchestration. \nScott Foglesong is a pianist\, musician\, teacher\, writer\, cat-lover\, music history devotée\, occasional computer geek and sometime programmer. In addition to San Francisco Conservatory of Music\, Foglesong teaches in the Fall Freshman program at UC Berkeley and the Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/flying-dutchman-webinar-2680/
LOCATION:Zoom Meeting
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200404T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200404T103000
DTSTAMP:20261028T110518
CREATED:20200210T234400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T192228Z
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SUMMARY:Das Liebesverbot (No Love Allowed) - EVENT CANCELED
DESCRIPTION:Saturday April 4\, the Wagner Society welcomes Jonathan Khuner for a presentation to acquaint us with Wagner’s rarely performed opera Das LIebesverbot (No Love Allowed) based on William Shakespeare’s play Measure for Measure. This program is timed to coincide with Pocket Opera’s presentation of “No Love Allowed” in there 2020 opera season. Pocket’s driving force of nature\, Donald Pippin\, translated Das Liebesverbot into English many years ago\, but it seems that the opera was never revived in the intervening years. Khuner will familiarize us with the plot and provide musical examples from the opera. \nWhen Pocket Opera stages “No Love Allowed” Jonathan Khuner will lead the Pocket Philharmonic in two performances scheduled for Sunday April 21st and Sunday May 3rd. You can find out more about the production and purchase tickets by visiting the Pocket Opera webstie  http://pocketopera.org/season/ \nConductor Jonathan Khuner resides in Berkeley but has worked for major opera companies across the USA and abroad. Khuner has been Musical Director of  West Edge Opera (formerly Berkeley Opera) in the East Bay since 1985 and was its artistic director between 1994 and 2009. He has led over seventy productions\, most recently Breaking the Waves (Mazzoli) \, Pelléas et Mélisande (Debussy)\, Frankenstein (Larsen) \, Hamlet (Thomas) and for the Claude Heater Foundation Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and Verdi’s Nabucco. Khuner has worked as Assistant Conductor and prompter for San Francisco Opera\, the Metropolitan Opera\, and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. In 1996 he was also the prompter for the Ring Cycle at the Bayreuther Festspiele. In the Wagner bicentennial year 2013\, Khuner conducted a mini-Ring-Cycle for Minnesota Concert Opera (Minneapolis\, MN) and in 2019 for Pacific Northwest Opera (Skagit\, WA). Khuner conducted  the nation of Albania’s first ever Wagner production – Tannhäuser\, at their National Opera in Tirana. Besides appearing frequently as guest conductor with various California opera companies\, Khuner also initiated an opera workshop performance course for the University of California at Berkeley (2001 – 2004). \nJonathan Khuner is a native of the San Francisco Bay Area and earned degrees from U.C. Berkeley in Mathematics and Musicology. \nWe meet at the JCC-SF 3200 California Street San Francisco\, CA \nThis meeting is free to members and there is a suggested donation of $10 for non-members
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/das-liebesverbot-no-love-allowed-2665/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200321T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200321T103000
DTSTAMP:20261028T110518
CREATED:20200210T230800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250312T192532Z
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SUMMARY:The Wagner Dynasty and Changing Philosophies at Bayreuth - EVENT CANCELED
DESCRIPTION:Our March guest is Desiree Mays and she will present an objective look at the Wagner family since Wagner’s death in 1883\, 136 years ago.  Mays will draw from original first-hand sources where possible and attendees will be provided with a Wagner Family tree handout. \nDesirée is a globetrotter for opera; she lectures both live and on radio across the States\, she writes books on the subject\, accompanies groups of people world-wide in search of that perfect opera in that perfect opera house somewhere on planet Earth. \nWinters find her lecturing coast to coast from the Metropolitan Opera in New York to the Los Angeles Opera in California. \nMays has spoken to Wagner Societies in Los Angeles\, New York\, Washington DC\, and Dallas and was the lead speaker for the Kirov Ring in Orange County in 2006. \nDesirée hosted two radio shows: “Our Arts” in Salt Lake City where she co-produced the award-winning series “Life is a Creative Process.”  She also produced and interviewed arts personalities on “CenterStage” for KSFR 101.1 in Santa Fe.  Currently she produces “Yoga Moments” for KSFR. \nDesirée holds a Masters of Arts degree in the Humaniites from the University of Utah.  She taught a class there and at the University of New Mexico entitled “What is Opera.” \nDesirée directs Art Forms Inc.\, an educational\, non-profit organization whose motto is: “Art forms through awareness.” \nThis program is free to WSNC Members\, Guests are welcome for a suggested donation of $10 per guest \nJCC-SF \n3200 California Street \nSan Francisco\, CA
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/the-wagner-dynasty-and-changing-philosophies-at-bayreuth-2664/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200208T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200208T113000
DTSTAMP:20261028T110518
CREATED:20200111T172100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T225634Z
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SUMMARY:Wagner in his Youth: How Beethoven and Bellini won his heart - EVENT CANCELED
DESCRIPTION:Dramaturg Emeritus of the San Francisco Opera and Musicologist\, Kip Cranna\, will present a talk Wagner In His Youth:  How Beethoven and Bellini Won His Heart. \nThe Young Richard Wagner was influenced by many different styles in his early years.  San Francisco Opera’s Dramaturg Emeritus  Kip Cranna will explore the life and works of the teenage and twenty-something composer and conductor\, with video excerpts to illustrate the early influences on the future operatic giant\, sampling early compositions inspired by Beethoven and the Bel Canto Composers. \nDr. Clifford (Kip) Cranna is Dramaturg Emeritus for San Francisco Opera.   Dr. Cranna served the company since 1979 and for over 30 years was Director of Music Administration dealing with educational and community outreach projects\, commissions of new operas\, and musicological support to the staff.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/wagner-in-his-youth-how-beethoven-and-bellini-won-his-heart-2660/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T103000
DTSTAMP:20261028T110518
CREATED:20191031T032500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T101034Z
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SUMMARY:2019 Cosima Wagner Holiday Party
DESCRIPTION:The Deadline has passed and Registration closed on November 27th.
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/2019-cosima-wagner-holiday-party-2656/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191102T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191102T103000
DTSTAMP:20261028T110518
CREATED:20190618T230000Z
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SUMMARY:The French Wagnerians
DESCRIPTION:November 2\, 2019 1:00 p.m. JCC-SF 3200 California Street\, San Francisco\, CA \nThe French Wagnerians \nDr. Simon Williams\, Professor Emeritus Dept. of Drama and Dance\, University of California Santa Barbara \nThe French Wagnerians  –  Although Wagner was rarely performed in France during the late 19th century\, several composers were strongly influenced by his music\, his dramatic situations or his theory. This talk will focus upon some of the most prominent French Wagnerian composers and their operas\, including Saint-Saens\, Lalo\, Chabrier\, Chausson and Charpentier. \nSimon Williams was a Professor in the Department of Theater and Dance for thirty years. He has taught at universities on four continents\, including the University of Regina\, of Alberta\, Cornell University and\, since 1984\, UCSB. He has published widely in the fields of European continental theatre\, the history of acting\, Shakespearean performance\, and operatic history. His major publications include German Actors of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries (Greenwood\, 1985)\, Shakespeare on the German Stage\, 1586-1914 (Cambridge\, 1990)\, Richard Wagner and Festival Theatre (Greenwood\, 1994)\, and Richard Wagner and the Romantic Hero (Cambridge\, 2004). He has contributed numerous articles in his fields of specialty in edited volumes and leading periodicals. He is also an active director and reviewer of opera. His current projects include co-editing A History of the German Theatre for Cambridge University Press and studies of Shakespeare in the eighteenth century and European opera in the nineteenth.  \n  \nThis meeting is free for WSNC Members and a suggested donation of $10 for non-members
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/the-french-wagnerians-2642/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T103000
DTSTAMP:20261028T110518
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SUMMARY:What to Hansel and Gretel have to do with Siegmund and Sieglinde?
DESCRIPTION:What do Hansel and Gretel have to do with Siegmund and Sieglinde?  \nSaturday\, October 19\, at 1:00 p.m. at the JCC-SF in San Francisco.  \nOur guest is WSNC member Brad Wade\, speaking on Hansel and Gretel\, by Wagner disciple and one-hit wonder Engelbert Humperdinck. The opera is\, of course based on the Grimm brothers’ fairy tale\, but Humperdinck cleaned it up somewhat for the stage. Brad will tell us about Humperdinck’s association with Wagner\, and his part in the Bayreuth premiere of Parsifal; refresh our memories about the fairy tale; and present a guided tour of the opera with musical examples. Look for a Wagnerian range of colors and textures applied to music of melodic and rhythmic appeal\, but without Wagnerian philosophical undertones.  \n	Our speaker Dr. Bradford Wade\, has been a member of the Wagner Society since 2012 and his love of Wagner goes back to his second performance of Die Walküre\, in 1976\, with Jon Vickers and Janis Martin as Siegmund and Sieglinde.  What was significant about that second performance was that\, this time\, Wade had learned how to do his homework before attending the opera. Very gradually\, over many years\, Wade has recruited a group of Opera San Jose patrons who come to his home for illustrated preview lectures for upcoming Opera San Jose productions. Recognizing that both Opera San Jose and San Francisco Opera are presenting Hansel and Gretel this fall\, and that Engelbert Humperdinck was closely associated with Richard Wagner\, we’ve invited Wade to share his Opera San Jose lecture with the Society. Brad Wade holds a B.A. in mathematics from Pomona College and a Ph.D. in computer science from Purdue University\, and worked for IBM Research for 40 years. Now retired\, Wade counts “opera lecturer” as his second career. \nJCC-SF  3200 California Street – San Francisco\, CA    This program is free to members and a suggested $10 donation for non-members. \n\n	 
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/what-to-hansel-and-gretel-have-to-do-with-siegmund-and-sieglinde-2640/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190928T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190928T103000
DTSTAMP:20261028T110518
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SUMMARY:Parsifal\, a true religious opera?
DESCRIPTION:Saturday September 28\, 2019 1:00 p.m.   JCC-SF 3200 California Street\, San Francisco\, CA \nThe Wagner Society of Northern California is proud to welcome returning guest speaker Dr. John Mastrogiovanni\, Chairman of the Wagner Society of Southern California.  \nParsifal\, a true religious opera? In his talk Mastrogiovani will consider the concept of redemption in Parsifal: are they Christian or Buddhist beliefs? He will consider what ways Wagner’s operas evidence Wagner’s own Christian belief. This could range from mocking abstinence in Das Liebesverbot all the way to the battle of Elsa and Ortrud in Lohengrin. \nJCC-SF 3200 California Street San Francisco\, CA 2nd Floor Gallanter Hall \nProgram is free to WSNC members and there is a suggested donation of $10 for non-members \nImage is “Parsifal” by Cal Pedranti (1961)
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/parsifal-a-true-religious-opera-2641/
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