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
A Theology of Wagner’s Ring Cycle Professor Richard H. Bell 12th April 2021 at 19.00 Richard is Professor of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Nottingham. Having prepared and taught modules on the theology of Parsifal and on Brünnhilde from Die Walküre, he wrote a two-volume work on the theology of the Ring.… Continue reading A Theology of Wagner’s Ring Cycle
Wagner and Revolution John Payne, a Wagner enthusiast for many years and currently the Chair of our Society, says: 'The talk I’m giving is not an academic study, though it does make use of a number of different studies and I will quickly allude to them at the end of the talk. Rather it is… Continue reading Wagner and Revolution
