WSNSW e-news 26

WSNSW — NEW ON OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL 

— Richard King’s ABC Radio interview by Leo Schofield in 1989
In 1989 Leo Schofield interviewed Richard King, immediate past President of the Wagner Society in NSW (1985-89), about the Society.

https://youtu.be/Cc58PznHgGs 

— A memento of our 2020 Memorial Concert for The Hon Jane Mathews AO
A brief memento filmed by a member of the audience on 27 February 2020 at the Wagner Society in NSW’s Memorial Concert for The Hon Jane Mathews AO – by Maestro Anthony Negus (pianist), Emily Turner (soprano), Eleanor Greenwood (soprano), Laura Scandizzo (soprano), Timothy Nunn (baritone) & Hamish James (tenor). 

https://youtu.be/NHSVqc7x6sc

WSNSW — STREAMING IN JULY

— 5-11 July 2021: The Met’s Richard Strauss week
The operas in streaming order are Der Rosenkavalier, Elektra, Ariadne auf Naxos, Capriccio, Salome, Arabella and Der Rosenkavalier.

— 10 July 2021, 1 – 2.30pm [PDT]: WS Northern California’s Discussion with Jane Eaglen, one of WSNC’s favorite Brünnhildes
Retired from her singing career, Ms. Eaglen is very busy teaching and coaching the singers at the New England Conservatory of Music. In addition to her full-time teaching role at NEC, Eaglen is cofounder and artistic director of the Wagner Intensive summer program held at Baldwin-Wallace University Conservatory of Music. She has also served as Senior Artist in Residence at the University of Washington School of Music, Principal Vocal Instructor for the Young Artist Program of the Seattle Opera. Eaglen teaches periodically at the Cardiff International Academy of Voice, and returns annually to teach and mentor young artists for the Merola Program at the San Francisco Opera.

Ms Eaglen also founded the Boston Wagner Institute (BWI) which will be training future Wagnerian singers this July 2021 along with a stellar team of Wagnerians including Katarina Dalayman, Ben Heppner and Greer Grimsley. The Boston Wagner Institute is supported with a grant from the WSNC William O. Cord Memorial Grant Fund. 

https://www.wagnersf.org/index.php/node/2749

— 24-25 July 2021 [PDT]: San Francisco Opera’s ‘Elektra’
Free streaming. 

Starring Christine Goerke, Adrianne Pieczonka, Michaela Martens, Alfred Walker, and Robert Brubaker. Henrik Nánási conducted the 2017 production.

https://sfopera.com/online/streaming/

— 25 July 2021, 1pm [PDT]: WS Southern California’s webinar ‘Birgit Nilsson: A League of Her Own’
Nilsson may be one of the greatest Wagnerian Sopranos of all time. Born in Västra Karup in southern Sweden to a farming family on 17 May 1918. She sang a wide variety of dramatic soprano roles, but her reputation was based on her mastery of some of the most punishing in the repertory, whether excelling as the fire-and-ice heroine of Puccini’s Turandot, or in the roles of Isolde, Brünnhilde or Sieglinde, which confirmed her as a successor to Kirsten Flagstad, and second to none. This documentary traces her life, career and most importantly her vocal technique that made her into glorious power-singer of our time.

ZOOM Events are a members preferred attendance, then guests on come first serve basis.

http://www.wagnersociety.us/events.htm

WSNSW — 2021 BAYREUTH FESTIVAL STREAMING, JULY – AUGUST 2021