Season 2020/2021
Our events include talks, study days and the occasional social gathering.
We are always pleased to see new faces as well as former and current members of course!
Please feel free to contact our Secretary if you have any queries.
Our lectures take place online using Zoom technology. Please use the contact form, below, to request an invitation.
14th September 2020 at 19.00
Amfortas – the wound!
The concept of injury and recovery in Wagner and in medieval legend and literature.
Derek Blyth
12th October 2020 at 19.00
Post-war ‘Ring’ productions at Bayreuth
Derek Blyth
14th December 2020 at 19.00
Götterdämmerung: The Beginning of the End of the Ring
A talk on the prologue to Act 1 of the music-drama
Ian McLennan
11th January 2021 at 19.00
Wagner and Revolution
John Payne
22nd February 2021 at 19.00
Adrian Boult and Wagner: What Might Have Been.
Adrian Brown
8th March 2020 at 19.00
Opus Metaphysicum :an empty phrase
Michael Fend
12th April 2021 at 19.00
A Theology of Wagner’s Ring Cycle
Prof. Richard H. Bell
10th May 2021 at 19.00
From Page to Stage – Directing Tristan un Isolde at Longborough
Carmen Jacobi
The illustration is from ‘The Dawn of Time’ by Theresa Newham. The original is in the possession of our president and is used with kind permission of the artist.