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 2024
THE WAGNER SOCIETIES OF THE WORLD & THE GESELLSCHAFT DER FREUNDE VON BAYREUTH Das Rheingold Gala 2024 Tuesday, August 20th after the performance at the New Festival Restaurant. For pricing and information, click the button below…
A NEW GESAMTKUNSTWERK?
with Michael Hackett, PhD
Available in the WSSC Media Archives In this unique lecture, Dr. Hackett discusses the concept of Gesamtkundstwerk in the mind of Wagner and beyond. Exploring together how this has impacted past and current productions with its continuing impact on theater at large. Dr. Hackett is Professor Emeritus of directing and theater of UCLA. He has directed for the Royal Opera, Covent Garden; the Royal Theatre at The Hague, Santa Fe Short Story Festival; Los Angeles Philharmonic at the Hollywood Bowl and much more.More to come…
FROM THE WATERS TO THE TREES
with Baryeuth Soprano
Alexandra Steiner
Recorded Sun., April. 21st
A discussion with a sassy Rhine maiden, gentle squire, young shepherd, and lovely wood bird fluttering the Bayreuth Festival for almost a decade. Alexandra Steiner is a premiere soprano in Wagner world, as well as in chamber music with the Munich's Gärtnerplatztheater, singing on the SACD recording as Gretel in Engelbert Humperdinck’s Handsel und Gretel, and much more. In this discussion, we will explore characterization, singing diverse roles in one season, and the discovery of one’s own voice.
QUEERING WAGNER
with Dr. Patrick S. Cheng
Sat., June 15th @ 1 PM PDT
In honor of Pride Month, Dr. Patrick S. Cheng will give a Zoom talk about the life and works of Richard Wagner from a queer perspective. Topics will include LGBTQ+ Wagnerites from the 19th century to today, the homosexuality of key people in Wagner’s life (including his patron King Ludwig II as well as his son Siegfried), Wagner’s fetishes with respect to satin and perfume, and the transgressive sexual relationships in Wagner’s operas. Dr. Patrick S. Cheng is the Visiting Professor of Anglican Studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. A Wagnerite as well as an Episcopal priest.
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
Please refer to our full website
for more events throughout
2024.
FROM THE WATERS TO THE TREES
with Baryeuth Soprano
Alexandra Steiner
Recorded Sun., April. 21st
A discussion with a sassy Rhine maiden, gentle squire, young shepherd, and lovely wood bird fluttering the Bayreuth Festival for almost a decade. Alexandra Steiner is a premiere soprano in Wagner world, as well as in chamber music with the Munich's Gärtnerplatztheater, singing on the SACD recording as Gretel in Engelbert Humperdinck’s Handsel und Gretel, and much more. In this discussion, we will explore characterization, singing diverse roles in one season, and the discovery of one’s own voice.
GALA DINNER 2024
THE WAGNER SOCIETIES OF THE WORLD & THE GESELLSCHAFT DER FREUNDE VON BAYREUTH Das Rheingold Gala 2024 Tuesday, August 20th after the performance at the New Festival Restaurant. For pricing and information, click the button below…
QUEERING WAGNER
with Dr. Patrick S. Cheng
Sat., June 15th @ 1 PM PDT
In honor of Pride Month, Dr. Patrick S. Cheng will give a Zoom talk about the life and works of Richard Wagner from a queer perspective. Topics will include LGBTQ+ Wagnerites from the 19th century to today, the homosexuality of key people in Wagner’s life (including his patron King Ludwig II as well as his son Siegfried), Wagner’s fetishes with respect to satin and perfume, and the transgressive sexual relationships in Wagner’s operas. Dr. Patrick S. Cheng is the Visiting Professor of Anglican Studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. A Wagnerite as well as an Episcopal priest.
