Celebrating 39 years as a society!
© 2022 Wagner Society of Southern California
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 a members
preferred attendance, then guests
are on a first come first serve basis.
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 2022
THE WAGNER SOCIETIES OF THE WORLD & THE GESELLSCHAFT DER FREUNDE VON BAYREUTH Das Rheingold Gala 2022 Sunday, August 20th before and after the performance at the New Festival Restaurant. When booking your dinner, please specify in the section, “Specific Requets” please state “Wagner Society”
THE SUSPENSION OF TIME IN
WAGNER’S OPERAS
Wagner's operas abound with scenarios in which a character enters an altered state of consciousness and thereby experiences something different--often radically so--than what other characters experience. Gurnemanz's provocative remark to Parsifal about time becoming space as they journey to the land of the Grail has invited much commentary. Katherine will explore how Wagner's text and music navigate suspensions of time for individual characters, and the ways we recognize and experience them. In the bigger picture, she will reveal how such scenarios help Wagner link ordinary and extraordinary worlds, and manifest ideas core to his dramatic enterprise throughout his stage works.
SINGING ERDA
with Nadine Weissman
Sat., June. 4th @ 12:00 PM PST
via Zoom
Nadine Weissmann came to international prominence in 2013 as Erda in Frank Castorf’s Bayreuth Festival production of Der Ring des Nibelungen under Kirill Petrenko, a role she sang at Bayreuth in five consecutive seasons. In demand for Wagnerian roles worldwide, such as Erda, Flosshilde, Waltraute, Schwerlliete, and Mary, she is also known for her comedic talent, in past seasons jumping in five times at the Opéra Bastille alongside the Falstaff of Sir Bryn Terfel. She sang at the Salzburg Festival in Barrie Kosky's sensational Orphée aux enfers and shortly afterwards at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in David McVicar's legendary Magic Flute.
WAGNER OUT WEST
with Jeffery McMillan
Sunday, July. 17th @ 1:00 PM PST
via Zoom OR Location TBA
It’s hard to believe its been 100 years since the San Francisco Opera was “officially” born and Wagner was among the first visit the newly founded opera company. Well, not in person, but in the form of a complete “Der Ring Des Nibelungen”! From there the shadow of Wagner continue to travel through the California west, to San Diego, Los Angeles and some smaller awesome opera companies. “Wagner Out West” is a survey both in photo and musical example, of the impact of Wagner’s music and theater in the California plains. “Hojotojo-yee-ha!”
Celebrating 39 years as a society!
© 2022 Wagner Society of Southern
California
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 a members
preferred attendance, then guests are on a
first come first serve basis.
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 2022
THE WAGNER SOCIETIES OF THE WORLD & THE GESELLSCHAFT DER FREUNDE VON BAYREUTH Das Rheingold Gala 2022 Sunday, August 20th before and after the performance at the New Festival Restaurant. When booking your dinner, please specify in the section, “Specific Requets” please state “Wagner Society”
THE SUSPENSION OF TIME IN
WAGNER’S OPERAS
Wagner's operas abound with scenarios in which a character enters an altered state of consciousness and thereby experiences something different--often radically so--than what other characters experience. Gurnemanz's provocative remark to Parsifal about time becoming space as they journey to the land of the Grail has invited much commentary. Katherine will explore how Wagner's text and music navigate suspensions of time for individual characters, and the ways we recognize and experience them. In the bigger picture, she will reveal how such scenarios help Wagner link ordinary and extraordinary worlds, and manifest ideas core to his dramatic enterprise throughout his stage works.
SINGING ERDA
with Nadine Weissman
Sat., June. 4th @ 12:00 PM PST
via Zoom
Nadine Weissmann came to international prominence in 2013 as Erda in Frank Castorf’s Bayreuth Festival production of Der Ring des Nibelungen under Kirill Petrenko, a role she sang at Bayreuth in five consecutive seasons. In demand for Wagnerian roles worldwide, such as Erda, Flosshilde, Waltraute, Schwerlliete, and Mary, she is also known for her comedic talent, in past seasons jumping in five times at the Opéra Bastille alongside the Falstaff of Sir Bryn Terfel. She sang at the Salzburg Festival in Barrie Kosky's sensational Orphée aux enfers and shortly afterwards at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden in David McVicar's legendary Magic Flute.
WAGNER OUT WEST
with Jeffery McMillan
Sunday, July. 17th @ 1:00 PM PST
via Zoom OR Location TBA
It’s hard to believe its been 100 years since the San Francisco Opera was “officially” born and Wagner was among the first visit the newly founded opera company. Well, not in person, but in the form of a complete “Der Ring Des Nibelungen”! From there the shadow of Wagner continue to travel through the California west, to San Diego, Los Angeles and some smaller awesome opera companies. “Wagner Out West” is a survey both in photo and musical example, of the impact of Wagner’s music and theater in the California plains. “Hojotojo-yee-ha!”
