The Wagner Society Zoom Events 2021

Richard Wagner: Wahn! Wahn!

Events cost £5 to all members (including all non-UK Wagner Societies), £10 for
non-members (refundable on joining) and free for students/under 30s.

Please book here: https://wagnersociety.org

January

• 19th Jan: Sir Willard White in conversation with Christopher Cook
• 20th January: “The new ‘Gurl’” with Stephen Brown (prt 3/7 of “Wagner at the Met
from 1901-present”)
• 22nd January: Nadine Secunde in conversation with Stephen Brown
• 24th January: Doris Soffel in conversation with Christopher Cook
• 27th January: Ben Heppner in conversation with Stephen Brown
• 29th January: Michael Volle in conversation with Christopher Cook

February

• 1st February: Ann Murray DBE in conversation with Stephen Brown
• 2nd February: Lise Davidsen in conversation with Christopher Cook
• 3rd February: “Bingo” with Stephen Brown (prt 4/ 7)
• 6th February: Grace Bumbry in conversation with Christopher Cook
• 10th February: “TE Lawrence and Wagner” with Susan Vincent
• 12th February: Reminisces of Lohengrin at Bayreuth in the 1960s, with Eduardo
Bennaroch
• 13th February: Eva Randova in conversation with Christopher Cook
• 17th February: “One down, three to come”, with Stephen Brown (prt 5/7)
• 19th February: Petra Lang in conversation with Christopher Cook
• 24th February: Sir Graham Vick CBE in conversation with Christopher Cook
• 26th February: Jane Eaglen in conversation with Christopher Cook

March

• 3rd March: “Choosing the Jews” with Stephen Brown (prt 6/7)
• 5th March: Andrew Shore in conversation with Christopher Cook
• 10th March: "The spectre of success: Wagner, Mendelssohn and anti-Semitism in
19th-century music" with Dr Barbara Eichner
• 12th March: "The flowing stream from wire-less to video” with Stephen Brown (prt 7/
7)
• 17th March: Robert Lloyd CBE in conversation with Stephen Brown
• 19th March: Dunja Vejovic in conversation with Christopher Cook
• 24th March: “Wagner’s Prayers” with Helena Matheopolous
• 26th March: Sir David Pountney CBE in conversation with Christopher Cook

April

• 2nd April: “Parsifalmania for Good Friday”, with Jeffery McMillan
• 7th April: "Two Rings Revisited: Wagner and J.R.R. Tolkien" with Dr Jamie
McGregor (prt 1/ 4 of Wagner and Literature)
• 9th April: Lotte Lehmann (as singer), with Gary Hickling
• 10th April: Sir Mark Elder CH CBE in conversation with Christopher Cook
• 14th April: "Hört ich oft von Engeln sagen": Wagner Lieder on record with Professor
Laura Tunbridge
• 16th April: Lotte Lehmann (as teacher), with Gary Hickling
• 21st April: “Oed’ und leed das Meer”: Wagner and T.S. Elliot with Dr Jamie
McGregor (prt 2/ 4)
• 28th April: Wagner in Victorian England, with Eduardo Bennaroch

May

• 5th May: “The Sea, music and death”: Wagner and Virginia Woolf with Dr Jamie
McGregor (prt 3/ 4)
• 7th May: Frida Leider, with Eva Rieger
• 12th May: Roger Neill, topic tbc
• 14th May: From Goodall to Longborough, with Anthony Negus
• 19th May: Dr Mark Berry, topic tbc
• 21st May: Wagner in Buenos Aires, with Eduardo Bennaroch
• 26th May: “Nothung up my sleeve”: Wagner and James Joyce with Dr Jamie
McGregor McGregor (prt 4/ 4)

June

• 2nd June: Hans Richter, with Christopher Fifield (part 1)
• 9th June: Hans Richter, with Christopher Fifield (part 2)
• 16th June: Wagner's Italianism, Bellini's Norma, and melody's Sinnlichkeit, with Dr
David Trippett
• 23rd June: Professor Emma Sutton, topic tbc
• 25th June: James Rutherford in conversation with Christopher Cook

July

• 7th July: Richard Jones in conversation with Christopher Cook
• 14th July: The Met Database, with Jeffery McMillan