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!”