Past Events
Lecture – Wagner, Technology, and Environment
June 9, 2019, Sunday
Will Berger, producer and author, lecture on Wagner, Technology, and Environment.
Will Berger — Excerpts from Wagner, Technology, and Environment.
Lecture – Tristan und Isolde: Hearing the Light and Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Wagner Goes for Baroque
May 18, 2019, Saturday 10am – 2:30pm
Half-Day Program David B. Levy, PhD, Professor of Music, Wake Forest University, lectures on Tristan und Isolde: Hearing the Light and Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Wagner Goes for Baroque.
Lecture – Wagner and Religion: Salvation and Redemption
April 14, 2019, Sunday 2pm
James Holman, Chairman, The Wagner Society of Washington DC, lecture on Wagner and Religion: Salvation and Redemption.
James Holman — Excerpts from Wagner and Religion: Salvation and Redemption.
Brunch and Lecture – Die Walkure
March 30, 2019, Saturday, 10:30am – 11:30am
In collaboration with Silverspot Cinema in Chapel Hill, lecture by Margie Satinsky prior to the Live in HD performance at noon.
Recital – Wagner, Verdi and Liszt: Contemporaries of Composition with a Divergence in Design
February 3, 2019, Sunday, 2pm – 3:30pm
Recital by Local Artist Jason Karn accompanied by pianist David Heid, Wagner, Verdi and Liszt: Contemporaries of Composition with a Divergence in Design.
Lecture and Demonstration with Musicologist and Pianist Jeffrey Swann
January 20, 2019, Sunday 1pm – 4pm
Musicologist and pianist, Jeffrey Swann, lecture and demonstration on The Ring Cycle: How the Music Works.
Dr. Jeffrey Swann — Excerpts from “Motive Families: How the Music of the Ring is Organized”.
Lecture – Saul Lilienstein on Wagner in the 1840s: Der Fliegende Hollander, Tannhauser, and Lohengrin
November 17, 2018, Saturday 10am – 4pm
Saul Lilienstein lectures on Wagner in the 1840s: Der Fliegende Hollander, Tannhauser, and Lohengrin.
Lecture – So viel der Helden: Wagner Invents a Tenor by Nick Malinowski
October 28, 2018, Sunday 2pm
Nick Malinowski, Executive Director of KidzNotes and former Director of Education for the Seattle Opera, leture on So viel der Helden: Wagner Invents a Tenor.
Lecture and Song – Mezzo-soprano Victoria Livengood
September 30, 2018, Sunday 2:30pm
Mezzo-soprano Victoria Livengood lecture on “An Afternoon with the Divine Dixie Diva”.
Lecture – Susan Dakin, PhD: How the Ring Became a Cycle (and Revolutionized Opera)
May 20, 2018, Sunday 2pm
Susan Dakin, PhD, lecture on How the Ring Became a Cycle (and Revolutionized Opera).