Events

The WSSC plans unique events

throughout the calender year…

Our events occur in several regular places throughout the year and sometimes in special locations which will be noted:

NOTE: ZOOM Events are for WSSC

members and guests who purchased

a $10,00 entry fee.

The Colburn School 200 S. Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 Directions Parking The Chairman’s Home: 1630 South Barranca Ave.. #167 Glendora, CA 91740 Directions Bayreuth Festival Festspielhügel 1-2 85445 Bayreuth

GALA DINNER 2025

THE WAGNER SOCIETIES OF THE WORLD & THE GESELLSCHAFT DER FREUNDE VON BAYREUTH Das Rheingold Gala 2025 Friday, August 15th after the performance at the New Festival Restaurant. For pricing and information, click the button below…

THE PERILS OF WAGNER

with Erica Miner

Recorded Sun., May. 29th

A discussion with award winning author and former Metropolitan Opera violinist, Erica Miner, shares with us “The Perils of Wagner.” While Wagner’s operas, and particularly his Ring, are large and grand to watch, they are also quite dangerous to perform. Erica takes us behind the scenes of several productions which had no small calamity and why.

CONDUCTING WAGNER’S RING

A discussion with

Maestro Ben Woodward

Saturday, Nov. 16h @ 11 AM PST

Live via Zoom from Berlin

After the immense success of Regents Opera’s first three instalments of Wagner’s Ring Cycle beginning with Das Rheingold in 2022, followed by Die Walküre in 2023, and earlier this year with Siegfried, for their final installment in 2025 they are performing two complete Ring Cycles in February and March. Not only has this Ring been compacted to make it accessible to the newbie to Wagner, it is also being performed in the round, making it possible for each person to experience these amazing works up-close and personal. Maestro Woodward, is the artistic director of the Regents Opera, in London, England and is the master mind behind this undertaking. He started as a student of organ, piano and viola at Chetham’s School of Music in Manchester, was organ scholar at Trinity College, Cambridge, and then an organist at Christ Church, Greenwich, CT, USA and Director of Music at St Mary RC Church, Stamford, CT. During this time he was Assistant Artistic Director of the New Baroque Soloists, for whom he played continuo harpsichord, including several performances of Bach’s 5th Brandenburg concerto, organ and also edited many baroque works for performance across New England.

Dates to Be Announced

KATHARINA WAGNER

“A discussion and Q & A”

ALEXANDER VON DEM

BOTTLENBERG

“The Characters Behind the

Charaters”

DIE FEEN

A discussion and

Screening of the Opera

AND MORE TO COME!

“SINGING SIEGFRIED”

A discussion with

Klaus Florian Vogt

Saturday, Dec. 21st @ 11 AM PST

Live via Zoom from Germany

Klaus Florian Vogt is one of the finest Wagner tenors of our time. His repertoire covers the dramatic roles such as Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tannhäuser, Stolzing, Siegmund and Siegfried. He also sings beyond Wagner like Florestan (Fidelio), Paul (Die tote Stadt) and Hoffmann (Les Contes d’Hoffmann). It extends furthermore to lyric- dramatic roles such as Erik (Der fliegende Holländer), and more. Born in Holstein, in the North of Germany, Klaus Florian Vogt studied horn and played for several years with the Philharmonic State Orchestra Hamburg. Later he studied at the Conservatory in Lübeck and gave up his position as a horn player in the orchestra to become a tenor. He made his debut in Flensburg and then became a member of the company at the Opera in Dresden. Since 2003 he has been a freelance artist.