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…

CONDUCTING WAGNER’S RING

A discussion with

Maestro Ben Woodward

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”

AND MORE TO COME!

“SINGING SIEGFRIED”

A discussion with

Klaus Florian Vogt

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.

DIE FEEN

An exploration of Wagner’s first

opera.

Sun., Jan. 19th 2025, @ 2 PM PST

In person at the Colburn School

In the world of opera, one of the most dynamic and demonstrative titans, Richard Wagner, had to start somewhere. Wagner’s first opera Die Feen was completed in 1883, when he was just 20 years old. Yet, within its other worldly setting and its early musical structure, one can hear the melodic presence of embryonic leitmotifs to be heard in his later works. In this stage presentation, the opera is condensed to approximately 48 minutes and partially fashioned for children. Yet, we can still sense the music genius of the Der Ring Des Nibelungen taking his first flight from the nest. It is performed by the Stage Orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, conducted by Kathileen Kelly.