Season 2023/2024
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.
11th September 2023 at 19.00
‘Wagner’s Music in Classic Hollywood Cartoons’
Daniel Goldmark
9th October 2023 at 19.00
‘Fricka – Goddess, Sister, Wife Mother’
Derek Blyth
This is a live meeting at the Friends’ Meeting House,
6, Mount Street,
Manchester,
M2 5NS
It will be followed by supper at a local restaurant, details to follow.
13th November 2023 at 19.00
An evening in Conversation with Christopher Maltman,
Wotan, in the Royal Opera’s new Das Rheingold
11th December 2023 at 19.oo
An evening in Conversation with Catherine Foster,
Bayreuth’s current Brunnhilde.
26th February 2024 at 19.00
Please note the revised date of this meeting
An evening in Conversation with Amy Lane,
Director of Longborough Opera’s Ring Cycle
12th February 2024 at 19.00
Wagner’s Melodies, Bellini’s Sinnlichkeit
David Trippett
11th March 2024 at 19.00
Passion or Fashion?
British Female Wagnerites ‘Out and About ‘ around 1900.
Charlotte Purkis
8th April 2024 at 19.00
From Meistermerker to Meistersinger.
The Swiss background to Wagner’s comic opera.
Chris Walton
13th May 2024 at 19.00
TBC
TBC
A Study day on Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
Derek Blyth
10th June 2024 at 19.00
Wagner and Luther
Susi Liles
Please be aware that views expressed by our speakers do not, necessarily, reflect the views of the society.