Birmingham Opera Company's RhineGold A talk by Richard Willacy, the executive director of the company. Monday 13th December 2021
Category: Meetings
Society meetings, usually held at Friends’ Meeting House Manchester.
Wagner in Venice
Wagner in Venice Simon Rees Monday 8th November Richard Wagner spent two significant periods in Venice, the first in 1858 when he went there from Zurich after the breakdown of his marriage over his friendship with the poet Mathilde von Wesendonck, and the second in 1883, when he and Cosima, his second wife, wintered… Continue reading Wagner in Venice
Wagner and ‘Metamotives’
A Survey of motives which appear in more than one of Wagner's works Wagner’s metamotives Riichard Wagner used a number of motives, or musical ideas, in more than one work. In the early, pre-'Ring' works, they are used as simple melodic ideas, but in the later works they are often developed and used in… Continue reading Wagner and ‘Metamotives’