The Wagner Society of Ireland, furthering the understanding of the music of Richard Wagner

The Wagner Society of Ireland is a not for profit organisation devoted to furthering the understanding of the music of Richard Wagner through such events as seminars, lectures, recitals, interviews, films, and assistance to promising young artists.

The Wagner Society of Ireland is Affiliated to the International Richard Wagner Verband.

June 2017

Events:

Our 2016/17 season finished with the well-attended and -received talk by John Allen on "Heil Dir, Hans Sachs".

Your Committee is working hard on assembling another set of interesting events for you for our 2017/18 season. Our second trip for 2017, to Berlin in mid-November, is already firmly planned. Watch this space for news of what else is coming up for 2017/18.

Meanwhile members are scattering far and wide in pursuit of performances of Wagner operas - to Wiesbaden, Prague, Budapest and, of course Bayreuth.

RWVI Website:

The Richard Wagner Verband International has created an excellent new website - www.richard-wagner.org - in English, French and German. It's worth a look.

Wagner Operas on the Internet:

The are a number of websites (particularly www.youtube.com ) where one can watch complete operas on demand and free of charge on the internet.

Of particular interest is the website www.theoperaplatform.eu/en which is is currently (until 31/10/2017) showing the Dutch National Opera production of Die Walküre, with Thomas J Mayer, Christopher Ventris, Catherine Foster and Catherine Naglestad. Also available are the Wiener Staatsoper productions of Parsifal and Götterdämmerung as well as Der Fliegende Holländer from the Finnish National Opera.

Links:

Remember to click on Useful Links above for information on what other Wagner Societies are doing; on travel and accommodation; on past and future performances and reviews of Wagner's works.

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