Meetings

2021 AGM

2021 AGM

Our AGM will be held on Tuesday 18th May at 19.30 over Zoom.  If you wish to attend, and you are most welcome to do so, please complete the contact form, below and our secretary will send you an invitation link.  John Payne, our chairman, has produced a number of questions relevant to our future, which are attached below. If you have views on any or all of these, we would love to hear from you, either at the AGM or, again, using the contact form, below.

We wish all of our friends a happy and musical summer after such a strange year. Some of us are going to ‘Die Walküre’ at Longborough in June and to ‘Tristan und Isolde’ at Glyndebourne in August and we hope to see some of our friends there.

Otherwise, until September, ‘Ho Jo To Ho!.

 

AGM Agendum

  1.  Welcome from Chairman
  2. Chair/Secretary report
  3. Treasurer’s Statement of Finance
  4. Outline of 21/22 season
  5. Nominations for Secretary post
  6. Feedback from consultation questionnaire
  7. Any other business/questions

 

Questions for discussion at the Wagner Society Manchester AGM and consultation by email

If you are not able to come to the Wagner Society Manchester’s AGM, or do not live within travelling distance from Manchester but have enjoyed attending our programme this year

Question Response
1.     Would you be prepared to pay £5 for a Wagner Society Zoom talk if you were not a member of the Society and were coming as a guest?

 

2.     Would you want all live events to be filmed/recorded so that you can watch/listen at home if you were unable to attend because you live too far away or for other reasons?

 

3.     How many of you would be interested in becoming members of the Wagner Society Manchester next season? If you were only able to attend via Zoom this would be at a reduced fee rate that would be more beneficial than attending Zoom events as guests

 

4.     Many singers, conductors, orchestral musicians and opera house and concert hall staff associated with Wagner productions are in a state of financial crisis at present after 15 months of the pandemic. They may need a fee if they come and talk to us. Are you happy to bear a membership cost which reflects the payment of fees to artists?

 

5.     This year we have had a mix of conductors, Society members, Wagner academics, and a theatre director talking about aspects of Wagner’s work. What are your suggestions for future talks the Society could give? What sort of things would particularly attract you to come to a live or Zoom event?

 

6.     Zoom has allowed people from all over the world to attend our talks. How could collaboration between the Manchester Wagner Society and other Wagner Societies be developed and in what ways?

 

 

 

If you are able to come to the Wagner Society Manchester’s AGM, or live within travelling distance from Manchester, and have enjoyed attending our programme this year

1.     Would you be happy to have a 21/22 programme which combined some Zoom and some live events?

 

2.     Would you be happy coming to live events, run according to whatever Government Covid-19 regulations were in force at that time?

 

3.     Would you want all live events to be filmed/recorded so that you can watch/listen at home if you were unable to attend?

 

4.     Would you be prepared to pay £5 for a Wagner Society Zoom talk if you were not a full member of the Society and were coming as a guest?

 

5.     How many of you would be interested in becoming members of the Wagner Society Manchester next season? If you were only able to attend via Zoom this would be at a reduced fee rate that would be more beneficial than attending Zoom events as guests

 

6.     Many singers, conductors, orchestral musicians and opera house and concert hall staff associated with Wagner productions are in a state of financial crisis at present after 15 months of the pandemic. They may need a fee if they come and talk to us. Are you happy to bear a membership cost which reflects the payment of fees to artists?

 

7.     This year we have had a mix of conductors, Society members, Wagner academics, and a theatre director talking about aspects of Wagner’s work. What are your suggestions for future talks the Society could give? What sort of things would particularly attract you to come to a live or Zoom event?

 

8.     Zoom has allowed people from all over the world to attend our talks. How could collaboration between the Manchester Wagner Society and other Wagner Societies be developed and in what ways?