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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
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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
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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
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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/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200912T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200912T143000
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191208T103000
DTSTAMP:20261028T114741
CREATED:20191031T032500Z
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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/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191102T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191102T103000
DTSTAMP:20261028T114741
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/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191019T103000
DTSTAMP:20261028T114741
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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/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190928T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190928T103000
DTSTAMP:20261028T114741
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190727T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190727T100000
DTSTAMP:20261028T114741
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SUMMARY:Parsifal - Two Films
DESCRIPTION:Saturday July 27\, 2019 1:00 p.m. JCC-SF 3200 California Street\, San Francisco\, CA \nFor this meeting we will screen two films: Parsifal\, Indiana Jones and Richard Wagner (2004) and Parsifal – Porter/Edison Film (1904). What a difference 100 years makes! \nParsifal\, Indiana Jones and Richard Wagner by documentary filmmaker Werner Boote traces the journey of the Holy Grail from the Holy Land to Spain under the guardianship of the Knights Templar. The 2004 Vienna Staatsoper Parsifal production by Christina Mielitz\, conducted by Donald Runnicles provides the back drop for the film. Running time is approximately 60 minutes \nParsifal (1904) Parsifal is a 1904 American silent film produced by the Edison Manufacturing Company and directed by Edwin S. Porter. It is based on the 1882 opera Parsifal by Richard Wagner\, and stars Adelaide Fitz-Allen as Kundry and Robert Whittier as Parsifal. Running time is approximately 24 minutes \n  \n 
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/parsifal-two-films-2643/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190601T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190601T110000
DTSTAMP:20261028T114741
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SUMMARY:Will Berger - Technology\, Opera and Wagner
DESCRIPTION:The Wagner Society of Northern California is pleased to welcome back Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcaster Will Berger. \nBerger will talk about a topic he has been researching: how technology affects music – what we like\, what we think we should like and what we dislike. The subject ranges around the globe and from the ancients to the very latest in gadgetry… and yet Wagner keeps coming up all throughout the narrative.  \nBerger will discuss how technology and material considerations of the day affected what Wagner wrote (ie.\, how different is Parsifal from previous works\, and how much of that is a function of logistics and technical realities of his day)\, and how Wagner’s art and thought in turn affected subsequent technology (eg.\, movies\, the recording industry\, sound engineering).  \nWhat emerges is a vast picture of our relationship to music today\, and of how deeply – and surprisingly – Wagner is a part of that.  \nWilliam Berger grew up in Los Angeles in a bilingual (Spanish and English) and multicultural (Mexican\, Italian\, and Jewish) home where everyone listened to opera and had strong opinions about it. After spending time during his teen years in various places around the U.S. and Europe\, he earned degrees in Latin and Italian Literature at University of California at Santa Cruz. During college\, Berger got his first taste working in the opera world at the San Francisco Opera in various capacities\, including merchandising and translating for artists who didn’t speak English. In 1984\, Will moved to New York\, worked in architecture/design\, taught Romance Languages at Baruch College and became a constant presence in audience of the Metropolitan Opera.  \nBerger has worked at the Metropolitan Opera since 2006 as a writer\, producer\, and on-air commentator with host Margaret Juntwait\, for the live\, weeknight broadcasts on Met Opera Radio. He is also a writer and producer for the Metropolitan Opera’s famed Quiz\, heard as part of its live\, international Saturday broadcasts. His recent articles have appeared in the publications of the opera companies of Seattle\, Washington D.C.\, and Barcelona’s Theatre de Liceu. \nWidely published\, Berger’s publications include:  Wagner Without Fear\, Verdi With a Vengeance\, and Puccini Without Excuses\, (Vintage Books)\, and the tribute “Chris De Blasio” in Loss Within Loss: Artists in the Age of AIDS (University of Minnesota Press). \n  \nThis meeting is free to WSNC Members. Suggested $10.00 donation for non-members \n  \nJCC-SF \n3200 California Street – 2nd Floor Gallanter Hall \nSan Francisco\, CA \n  \n  \n\n	 
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/will-berger-technology-opera-and-wagner-2636/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190525T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190526T123000
DTSTAMP:20261028T114741
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SUMMARY:2019 Richard Wagner Birthday Party
DESCRIPTION:SAVE THE DATE! \nThe Wagner Society of Northern California is pleased to announce that we will hold the Annual Richard Wagner Birthday Celebration on Saturday May 25th at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church 1111 O’Farrell Street\, San Francisco\, CA \nOur musical guests for the concert are Steven Bailey and Mai-Linh Pham who will be playing the music of Richard Wagner for piano and piano four hands. Steven will also play his fantastic\,  20-minute Tannhaeuser Overture which was the talk of our concert recital last year. \nImmediately following the concert we will have a dessert reception in the lower level Community Hall featuring birthday cake and champagne. \nMark your calendars\, you will not want to miss this concert. \nTHIS IS A FREE CONCERT – PLEASE R.S.V.P. AT : wagnersocnc@gmail.com \nTHE PROGRAM: \nPiano Four Hands: \n\n	Der fliegende Holländer – Vorspiel \n\n	Lohengrin – Vorspiel\n\n	Die Meistersinger- Vorspiel\n\n	 \n\n	Steven Bailey and Mai-Linh Pham\, pianists \n\n	 \n\n	PAUSE\n\n	 \n\n	Tannhäuser – Vorspiel (Paris)\n\n	Steven Bailey – soloist\n\n	 \n\n	PLUS a surprise selection to be announced from the piano \nSaturday May 25\, 2019 3:00 p.m. (doors open at 2:30) \nSt. Mark’s Lutheran Church \n1111 O’Farrell Street \nSan Francisco\, CA \n  \nhttp://www.stmarks-sf.org/about/directions
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/2019-richard-wagner-birthday-party-2622/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190406T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190406T103000
DTSTAMP:20261028T114741
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SUMMARY:Parsifalmania: The early history of Wagner’s final opera in America
DESCRIPTION:Parsifalmania: The early history of Wagner’s final opera in America \nApril 6\, 2019  1:00 p.m. JCC-SF 3200 California Street\, San Francisco\, CA \n\nBy Jeffery S. McMillan \nRichard Wagner’s Parsifal was intended by the composer to be experienced exclusively by audiences at his festival theater in Bayreuth. Undeterred\, American impresarios began programing music from the opera in concerts immediately after the 1882 unveiling and gave the United States stage premiere in 1903 ushering in a robust\, if unauthorized\, performance tradition in the new world. The American “Parsifalmania” was encouraged primarily by New York’s Metropolitan Opera which established Parsifal in the repertory through memorable performances\, cross-country tours\, and consistency; after the first World War\, the Met presented Parsifal every season for 30 consecutive years. Utilizing an array of early recordings\, photographs\, and archival resources\, this presentation will trace the explosion of American interest in Wagner’s final stage work from first exposure to the golden era of Wagnerian performance in New York during the late 1930s. A 2019 restoration by Marston Records of the Met’s 1938 broadcast of Parsifal starring Lauritz Melchior and Kirsten Flagstad—a grail to record collectors and one of the earliest complete recordings of the opera—will be featured as an example of the musical standards and vocal splendor enjoyed by the American public after their long acquaintance with the work. \nJeffrey McMillan is a member of the Board of Directors of the WSNC and Editor of Leitmotive. McMillan is Senior Communications Manager for San Francisco Opera. He has written for Opera News\, Musical America\, and is the author of Delightfulee: The Life and Music of Lee Morgan. \nThis event takes place at the JCC-SF 3200 California Street\, San Francisco\, CA 1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.   Program is free to members and a suggested donation of $10.00 for non-members \n\n 
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/parsifalmania-the-early-history-of-wagners-final-opera-in-america-2611/
LOCATION:CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190323T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190323T103000
DTSTAMP:20261028T114741
CREATED:20190210T200000Z
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SUMMARY:Birgit Nilsson - A League of Her Own
DESCRIPTION:March 23\, 2019 1:00 p.m.  \nFilmmakers Thomas Voigt and Wolfgang Wunderlich have created this fascinating documentary about the magnificent Birgit Nilsson. This documentary includes highlights from performances\, concerts\, talk shows and rare archive materials. Also included are interviews with today’s singers\, conductors and artists who share their thoughts about Ms. Nilsson. \nThe Wagner Society has received special permission to screen this documentary for our members. The Society wishes to thank the Birgit NIlsson Foundation for the opportunty to share this fascinating documentary about the one and only Birgit Nilsson. \nThis event takes place at the JCC-SF 3200 California Street\, San Francisco \n 
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/birgit-nilsson-a-league-of-her-own-2619/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190209T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190209T113000
DTSTAMP:20261028T114741
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SUMMARY:Jasmin Solfaghari - Director\, Odense Denmark Ring
DESCRIPTION:Saturday February 9\, 2019 1:00 pm to 3:30 pm \nJCC-SF – 3200 California Street \nSan Francisco\, CA \nFree to WSNC Members\, suggested donation of $10 for guests \nThe Wagner Society of Northern California invites you to meet and hear: \nJasmin Solfaghari\, Director and Master Teacher will discuss her career as an Assistant Director for the many of the greatest opera directors and as a Director in her own right. \nTo read a review of Solfaghari’s RING in Odense here is a link to a review with photos of the production: \nhttps://www.klaus-billand.com/english/opera-reviews/ring-des-nibelungen… \n\n\n\nBio and CV: Jasmin Solfaghari was born in Freiburg/Germany in 1963 as daughter of German-Persian parents. After having spent the first six years of her childhood in Teheran/Iran she got her school and musical education in Freiburg. In 1989 she graduated in stage directing at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg in the class of Prof. Götz Friedrich (diploma).  \n Positions and leading Positions \n 2018 Leadership department Opera/Musicaltheatre at PAMY Mediaproductions\, Switzerland. www.pamy.ch \n2004 – 2006: Oberspielleiterin at Deutsche Oper Berlin with revivals of “Rheingold”\, “Siegfried” (Götz Friedrich)\, “Lulu” (Götz Friedrich)\, “Die Tote Stadt” (Philippe Arlaud)\, “La Bohème” (Götz Friedrich)\, “Pelléas et Mélisande” (Marco Arturo Marelli)\, “Der Rosenkavalier” (Götz Friedrich)\, “Cav/Pag” (David Pountney). \n2001 – 2004: Oberspielleiterin Musiktheater” at Stadttheater Bremerhaven: main director opera. \n1994 -1998: assistant stage director of Hamburgische Staatsoper and has worked among others with Christine Mielitz\, Harry Kupfer\, Günther Krämer\, Achim Freyer\, Marco Arturo Marelli a.o. She was responsible for revivals such as: “Der Ring des Nibelungen”\, “Il Trittico”(also for TV)\, “Die Fledermaus”\, “Tristan und Isolde”\, a.o.  \nDuring this period Jasmin Solfaghari collaborated with conductors such as Christian Thielemann\, Sir Simon Rattle\, Philippe Augin\, Jacques Lacombe\, Daniel Oren\, Marc Albrecht\, Antonello Allemandi\, Gerd Albrecht\, Donald Runnicles\, Markus Stenz\, Lothar Zagosek\, a.o. \nJasmin Solfaghari worked with singers as Deborah Voigt (Debut Marschallin)\, Veronique Gens\, Sophie Koch\, Agnes Baltsa\, Helga Dernesch\, Gabriele Schnaut\, Hanna Schwarz\, Lisbeth Balslev\, Angelika Kirchschlager\, Monserrat Caballé\, Barbara Daniels\, Linda Watson\, Evelyn Herlizius\, Olga Romanko\, Piotr Becala\, Toopi Lehtipuu\, Jean Marc Ainsley\, Lioba Braun\, Graham Clarc\, Lance Ryan\, Stefan Vinke\, José Cura\, Franz Grundheber\, Simon Estes\, Matti Salminnen\, René Pape\, Kurt Moll\, Torsten Kerl\, Gerhard Siegel\, Catherine Foster\, Jennifer Wilson\, Ricarda Merbeth (Role debut Brünnhilde\, Deutsche Oper)  a.o. \n Teaching and more \n Jasmin Solfaghari is giving masterclasses and is holding lectures in Italy\, Brasil\, Israel\, Germany\, USA and China. \n 2012-2016 Teaching assignment at Hochschule für Musik Dresden. \n2006-2011 Professor at Hochschule für Musik und Theater Leipzig (interimistic). \n\n\n\n\n				 \n\n\n\n				 \n\n\n 
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/jasmin-solfaghari-director-odense-denmark-ring-2599/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190119T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190119T113000
DTSTAMP:20261028T114741
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SUMMARY:"But of course\, the real villain is Wagner! - or\, Wagner in the novels of E.M. Forster"
DESCRIPTION:Saturday January 19th\, 2019 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. \nJCC-SF 3200 California Street \nSan Francisco\, CA \n2nd Floor Gallanter Hall \nThe Wagner Society of Northern California is pleased to welcome scholar Claudia Stevens: \n“But of course\, the real villain is Wagner! – or\, Wagner in the novels of E.M. Forster” \nBritish and American authors of the nineteenth century\, frustrated and annoyed by the perceived dullness\, restraint and hypocrisy of their own cultures\, were drawn to fanciful\, passionate and rebellious elements in German literature and music. The young E. M. Forster carried this tradition into the early twentieth century\, embracing German Romanticism literally with shouts of joy.  Inspired by Schumann’s fantastical musical and literary synaesthesia\, and most particularly by Wagner’s operas with their artistic synthesis and cult of the hero\, Forster attempted to create a new kind of literature that would be infused by his own love for\, and considerable knowledge of\, music.  What happens when the culture war between German passion and English restraint  – epitomized ironically by British Wagner exponent Shaw\, vs. Austrian anti-Wagnerian Hanslick – erupts onto the pages of Forster’s novels?  That is the subject of Claudia Stevens’ presentation. She explores how Forster’s early novel\, The Longest Journey\, not only extolled Wagner’s operas but tried to BE one. That experiment was a major flop and an embarrassment.  But in the two novels that followed – A Room with a View and Howards End\, he arrived at a new\, more successful way of infusing and depicting music: by describing and counterposing his characters’ responses to it.  Rather than attempting to encompass and incorporate the whole of Wagner\, Forster converted the influence of Wagner into metaphor – a war waged between passion and restraint\, imagination and banality.  Claudia goes on to explore what this Forsterian dialectic meant for her creation with composer Allen Shearer of the new opera Howards End\, America\, which will premiere in San Francisco at Z Space Feb. 22-24\, 2019.  Her scholarly research on Classic-Romantic dualism in German music pours into her presentation\, which also will include demonstration at the piano. \nAbout Claudia Stevens: \nClaudia Stevens\, born in Redding\, California to Czech and Austrian Jewish parents\, has received many honors over her long career. As a pianist\, her teachers included Leonard Shure\, Martin Canin and Leon Fleischer\, and she was awarded various fellowships\, including the Alfred Hertz prize from UC\, Berkeley. Among career highlights were sponsored solo recitals at Carnegie Recital Hall and the National Gallery\, performances of dozens of world premieres\, residencies at Tanglewood and several full “Performance Today” broadcasts on NPR. In her second career as a monologue artist and playwright\, her work came to wider attention\, recognized by a dozen grants from the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the NEA (“New Forms”)\, tour support from the International Theater Institute\, residencies at theaters and art centers from Baltimore to Rangoon and Budapest\, and numerous television appearances. A number of her solo plays appear in the avant-garde literary journal Exquisite Corpse. Now based in Oakland\, Claudia’s third career is as the librettist of seven chamber operas (an eighth is in progress) in collaboration with distinguished Bay Area composer Allen Shearer. All have been produced. Their one-act opera The Dawn Makers premiered at Herbst Theater in 2009 and was a finalist in the Dominick Argento Chamber Opera Competition. Their internationally acclaimed 2015 chamber opera Middlemarch in Spring\, based George Eliot’s Middlemarch\, was selected a top ten opera of the year by the SF Chronicle and has had two subsequent East Coast productions. Their newest full-length opera\, Howards End\, America\, a production by San Francisco’s Earplay\, will premiere at Z Space Feb. 22-24\, 2019\, featuring an all-star cast. Also a scholar\, her writings on nineteenth and twentieth century music are published in Musical Quarterly and Perspectives of New Music. More recent articles about adapting of the novel for the opera stage appear in journals including George Eliot/George Henry Lewes Studies (about her libretto on Middlemarch) and Polish Journal of English Studies\, in association with the International E.M. Forster Society (about adapting Howards End).  Claudia holds degrees in music from Vassar College (summa cum laude)\, UC\, Berkeley\, and the DMA from Boston University. Previously an Adjunct Associate Professor of Piano at the College of William & Mary and presently a Visiting Scholar there\, she has been a guest performer and lecturer at over two hundred colleges and universities \nJCC-SF – 2nd Floor Gallanter Hall \n3200 California Street \nSan Francisco\, CA \nFree to members\, A suggested $10 donation for non-members \n 
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/but-of-course-the-real-villain-is-wagner-or-wagner-in-the-novels-of-e-m-forster-2596/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181209T073000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181209T103000
DTSTAMP:20261028T114741
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SUMMARY:Cosima Holiday Champagne Brunch
DESCRIPTION:The Society is delighted to complete our year with the Cosima Birthday Party \nOur musical guests are: \nMarina Harris\, soprano  Marina Harris was a San Francisco Opera Merola Participant and Adler Fellow. Harris is a Wagner Society William O. Cord Grant recipient. In 2015 Harris was a participant and award winning finalist in the 8th International Singing Competition for Wagner Voices\, Karlsruhe Germany. \nPeter Grunberg\, piano  The Australian-born musician Peter Grunberg moved to California in the early 1990’s to take up the position of Head of Music Staff at the San Francisco Opera.  Since then\, he has collaborated frequently with the San Francisco Symphony\, where he has been conductor\, pianist\, and recently also pre-concert lecturer. \nMarina Harris and Peter Grunberg will perform a program of Wagner\, Strauss and Liszt \nOur event begins with a champagne welcome and then our recital program of selections from Richard Wagner\, Richard Strauss and Franz Liszt \nFollowing the recital we will enjoy a brunch served with select red wine and more champagne \nMeals are served with a Salad of Baby Arugula with Feta Cheese\, Roasted Peppers\, Red Onions and Fresh Herb Vinaigrette \nChoice of two gourmet entrees: \nA) Mary’s Natural ChIcken Breast with Wild Mushrooms\, Fingerling Potatoes\, Baby Kale\, Jus & Roasted Garlic Aioli \nor \nB) Roasted Eggplant filled with Moroccan Spiced Vegetables and Chick Peas topped with Cashew Cream\, accompanied by Saffron Rice Pilaf (Vegan and Gluten Free) \nThe meal is completed with a dessert of Chocolate Trilogy and served with Coffee or Tea \nPrice per person is $100 (open seating) \n  \nAttire: Festive/Holiday Attire or Wagner themed costume \n  \n 
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/cosima-holiday-champagne-brunch-2584/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181117T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181117T110000
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SUMMARY:Wagner's theories of "Gesamtkunstwerk" vs. his own practices
DESCRIPTION:Professor Thomas Grey\, Stanford University– Wagner’s theories of “Gesamtkunstwerk” vs. his own practices Professor Grey will speak about Wagner’s concept of the total work of art as it relates to theatricality and movement. Grey will emphasize the Tannhäuser experiment of including ballet within the opera and modern theatrical  trends in “choreographic” staging. The discussion will give examples of such staging from the Tannhäuser Bacchanale\, Ride of the Valkyries\, the dancing in Meistersinger Act 3\, and the Flower Maidens in Parisfal. \nWe meet at the JCC-SF at 3200 California Street (at Presidio) San Francisco\, CA \nMeetings begin at 1:00 p.m/ \nThomas Grey is a Professor of Musicology and by courtesy\, German Studies at Stanford University.  \nHis special fields of study are: Wagner\, 19th-century opera\, history of musical aesthetics and criticism\, Romantic music and visual culture. Professor Greys Publications include Wagner’s Musical Prose: Texts and Contexts\, 1995. Editor and co-author of Richard Wagner: The Flying Dutchman\, 2000\, and Cambridge Companion to Wagner\, forthcoming. Articles and reviews in JAMS\, 19th Century Music\, Music Library Association Notes\, Current Musicology\, Opera Quarterly\, Cambridge Opera Journal\, Beethoven Forum\, Wagner\, 19th-Century Studies; Analyzing Opera\, 1989; Music Theory in the Age of Romanticism\, 1996; The Arts Entwined (2000); Music and German Identity\, 2001; The Don Giovanni Moment (2005); International Dictionary of Opera\, Revised New Grove Dictionary\, and ENO Opera Handbooks. Chapters contributed to The Wagner Compendium\, 1992; The Mendelssohn Companion\, 2001; Cambridge Companion to Grand Opera\, 2003; Cambridge History of 19th Century Music; New History Of German Literature; and Cambridge Opera Handbooks: Tristan und Isolde\, forthcoming. Editor-in-Chief\, Journal of the American Musicological Society (1999-2001). Grey is on the editorial/advisory boards of the Cambridge Opera Journal\, Nineteenth-Century Music Review\, Wagner Spectrum. \nPrograms are free to members and for guests a donation of $10 is recommended \n 
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/wagners-theories-of-gesamtkunstwerk-vs-his-own-practices-2592/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181013T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181013T103000
DTSTAMP:20261028T114741
CREATED:20180716T015000Z
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SUMMARY:Isolde's Dream - A Biography of Mathilde Wesendonck
DESCRIPTION:This biography of Mathilde Wesendonck is the untold and fascinating story of this woman’s inspiring influence on the major works of Richard Wagner\, based on facts related in their correspondence and other authentic documents. Under the influence of her aura\, Wagner composed Tristan and Isolde\, Rhinegold\, The Walkyrie\, the first two acts of Siegfried\, The Meistersinger\, the outline for Parsifal\, and the music for the Wesendonck Lieder on Mathilde’s poems. \n\n	Join us in welcoming Judith Cabaud\, who will discuss the extensive research she conducted on the important and illusive muse of Richard Wagner – Mathilde Wesendonck.\n	French-based JUDITH CABAUD\, was born in Brooklyn\, New York\, received her BA (Phi Beta Kappa) from New York University. Then\, after studying at the Sorbonne in Paris and in Clermont-Ferrand where she obtained her licence es lettres\, she settled in France. For many years\, she worked as a teacher\, a writer\, a journalist\, and a music critic at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany.\n\n	JCC-SF\n	3200 California Street (at Presidio)\n	San Francisco\, CA\n\n	Free to Members; Non-Members $10 suggested donation\n 
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/isoldes-dream-a-biography-of-mathilde-wesendonck-2583/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180922T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180922T103000
DTSTAMP:20261028T114741
CREATED:20180716T013600Z
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SUMMARY:Bernstein at 100 - Lenny's Lifelong Obsession with Tristan und Isolde
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URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/bernstein-at-100-lennys-lifelong-obsession-with-tristan-und-isolde-2582/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180721T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180721T103000
DTSTAMP:20261028T114741
CREATED:20180716T012300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231004T103459Z
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SUMMARY:Centennial Celebration of Birgit NIlsson and Astrid Varnay
DESCRIPTION:Join the Society in celebrating two Golden Age Godesses of the Wagnerian repertory. We will screen two documentary films and get a closer look at their careers. \nWe will screen “Bayreuth Primadonnas” – a television interview with Astrid Varnay\, Birgit Nilsson and Martha Mödl and also “Never before – The Life and first New York career of Astrid Varnay” \nProgram is free to WSNC Members\, non-members $10.00 suggested donation \nJCC-SF – 2nd Floor Gallanter Hall \n3200 California Street (at Presidio) \nSan Francisco\, CA 
URL:https://wagnersf.org/events/centennial-celebration-of-birgit-nilsson-and-astrid-varnay-2581/
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