Celebrating 41 years as a society!
© 2024 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 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.
Dates to Be Announced
KATHARINA WAGNER
“A discussion and Q & A”
ALEXANDER VON DEM
BOTTLENBERG
“The Characters Behind the
Charaters”
KLAUS FLORIAN VOGT
“A discussion Singing Siegfried”
DIE FEEN
A discussion and
Screening of the Opera
AND MORE TO COME!
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.
Celebrating 41 years as a society!
© 2024 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 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
Dates to Be Announced
KATHARINA WAGNER
“A discussion and Q & A”
ALEXANDER VON DEM BOTTLENBERG
“The Characters Behind the Charaters”
KLAUS FLORIAN VOGT
“A discussion Singing Siegfried”
DIE FEEN
A discussion and
Screening of the Opera
AND MORE TO COME!
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…
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.
