Season 2021/2022
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.
13th September 2021 at 19.00
‘Die Meistersinger von Bayreuth’
A Survey of famous singers who have trodden the boards on the Green Hill
Derek Blyth
11th October 2021 at 19.00
Wagner and ‘Metamotives
Motives which span more than one work in slightly different guises.
Kevin Stephens
8th November 2021 at 19.00
Wagner in Venice
Simon Rees
13th December 2021
Birmingham Opera Company’s production of ‘Das Rheingold’
a talk to be confirmed.
10th January 2022 at 19.00
The Perfect Wagnerite
George Bernard Shaw on opera and Wagner from 1876-1898
David Gosling
14th February 2022 at 19.00
Roger Scruton and Wagner
John Payne
21st March 2022 at 19.00
Conducting Das Rheingold and Die Walküre
Anthony Negus.
We hope that this will be a live event in Manchester as well as on Zoom
11th April 2022 at 19.00
Frank Castorf’s Bayreuth Ring
Mark Berry
9th May 2022 at 19.00
Wagner and Cinema Techniques
Peter Franklin
TBC
A Study day on Parsifal
Live, we hope, or on Zoom
Derek Blyth
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.
Please be aware that views expressed by our speakers do not, necessarily, reflect the views of the society.