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Newsletter |
Wagner Society of Ireland Events (updated 18 January 2012)
Current Events (please click)
Previous Years (please click)
- Programme of Events 2010/2011 Season
- Programme of Events 2009/2010 Season
- Programme of Events 2008/2009 Season
Reports
Please click below to see the reports in Microsoft Word (.doc) format:
- Commemoration Service for Dr Wolfgang Wagner
- Report on the Richard Wagner Verband 2003
- Report on the Richard Wagner Verband 2004
- Report on the Richard Wagner Verband 2007
- Report on the Richard Wagner Verband 2009
- Report on the Richard Wagner Verband 2010
- Bayreuth 2003
- Limerick Ring Cycle
- Paul McNamara - Review
- Ian Fox's Book List - "Joyce & Wagner"
- Our trip to the Ring in Karlsruhe in April 2011
- Chris McQuaid's List of Wagner Voices
- Chris McQuaid's Review of Tannhäuser - Bayreuth 2011
Programme of Events 2011/2012 Season (Back to top of page)
Date |
Event |
Location |
Time |
| Thursday, Sep 22nd 2011 | Bruce Arnold Bayreuth 1959 and 2011 - My Two Visits,
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United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| Saturday, Oct 15th 2011 | Lohengrin Study Day with Derek Watson
|
The Herbert
Park Hotel, Ballsbridge |
9:30 a.m. |
| Thursday, Nov 24th 2011 | A Reluctant Singer - talk by Padraig O'Rourke
|
United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| Thursday, Dec 15th 2011 | Christmas Event and Bayreuth Draw
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United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| Tuesday, Jan 24th 2012 | Singing Wagner - talk by Paul McNamara
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United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| Thursday, Feb 23rd 2012 | 2012 AGM, followed by John Allen- "The Wagner Legacy - German Opera in the wake of the Master"
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United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | AGM 7.00 p.m. followed by John's talk @ 8.00 p.m. |
| Saturday/Sunday, Mar 31st / Apr 1st 2012 | Tristan Study Days
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United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | 9:30 a.m. |
| April 2012 | Wagner Society 2012 Trip to Würzburg for Tristan & Isolde with Paul McNamara as Tristan - April 15 onwards to Nürnberg for Der Fliegende Holländer - April 16
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Würzburg & Nürnberg Germany |
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| Thursday May 17th, 2012 | Ian Fox - "Irish Visitors to Bayreuth"
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United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| May 17th - 20th 2012 | International Wagner Congress in Prague
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Prague Czech Republic |
Programme of Events 2010/2011 Season (Back to top of page)
Date |
Event |
Location |
Time |
| Sep 23rd 2010 | John Allen The Road to Valhalla - a survey of German Opera before Wagner |
United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| Oct 21st 2010 | Anthony Linehan Parsifal - the final evolution in Wagner's concept of "redemption" |
United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| Nov 18th 2010 | Ian Fox Wagner and Joyce |
United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| Dec 16th 2010 | Christmas Event and Bayreuth Draw | United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| Sunday Jan 9th 2011 |
Special Concert Sponsored by the Wagner Society:
Exploring links between Wagner Meyerbeer and Stanford: Paul McNamara, tenor; Colette McGahon, mezzo-soprano; and Philip Mayers, piano.
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Dublin City Gallery-
The Hugh Lane Parnell Square, Dublin 1 |
12.00 noon |
| Wednesday January 26th 2011 | Fergus O'Carroll of the NSO will give a talk on the Wagner Tuba, prior to the use of these instruments in a performance of Bruckner's 8th Symphony in the NCH on Friday, January 28th. | United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| Saturday Feb 5th 2011 |
Day-long event:
Talk by Derek Watson on Tannhäuser – followed by optional dinner and DVD viewing of the opera.
|
The Herbert
Park Hotel, Ballsbridge |
9.30 a.m. |
| Wednesday Feb 23rd 2011 | Annual General Meeting A DVD on Max Lorentz's Life will also be shown |
United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| Thursday Mar 24th 2011 |
"Recordings of Wagner's
Parsifal" A personal appraisal by our Honorary Vice President Christopher McQuaid |
United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| April 20th - 25th 2011 | Group Trip to the Ring Cycle produced by Denis Krief | Karlsruhe, Germany | |
| Thursday Apr 28th 2011 |
Derek Scally "Culture and cultural publics in Germany" |
United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
Programme of Events 2009/2010 Season(Back to top of page)
Date |
Event |
Location |
Time |
| September 17th 2009 | Anthony Linehan - The History of Wagner Performances in Ireland | United Arts Club,3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street,Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| October 13th 2009 | Ian Fox - “The Imperfect Wagnerite” - George Bernard Shaw's views and comments on Wagner and Wagnerian performances in his day | United Arts Club,3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street,Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| November 21st 2009 | Derek Watson will give a talk before this evening's performance of Das Rheingold | Probably in the Merrion Hotel | 2.00 p.m. |
| December 17th 2009 | Supper and Ballot for Bayreuth Tickets 2010 | United Arts Club,3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street,Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| January 16th 2010 | Derek Watson - Day long talk on The Flying Dutchman | Herbert Park Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 | All day |
| January 31st 2010 | Recital by Paul McNamara
(Part-sponsored by ourselves) |
Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin 1 | 12 noon |
| February 10th - 15th 2010 | Trip to Berlin | Berlin | |
| March 8th 2010 | Annual General Meeting | United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| March 31st 2010 | Muiris O’Keeffe Old Bayreuth recordings (1904–43) |
United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| May 6th 2010
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Paddy Brennan Performances by DGOS/Opera Ireland of Wagner operas since the 1950s |
United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| May 20th 2010 | Deirdre Tinney Wagner and French Symbolist Poets of the Nineteenth Century |
United Arts Club, 3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| February 25th 2010 | 6th Annual General Meeting | United Arts Club,3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street,Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| March 26th 2010 | Derek Watson - An illustrated talk on “Richard Wagner's Arthurian Quest” | Herbert Park Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 | 8.00 p.m. |
| September 17th 2010 | Anthony Linehan - The History of Wagner Performances in Ireland | United Arts Club,3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street,Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| October 13th 2010 | Ian Fox - “The Imperfect Wagnerite” - George Bernard Shaw's views and comments on Wagner and Wagnerian performances in his day | United Arts Club,3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street,Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| November 21st 2010 | Derek Watson will give a talk before this evening's performance of Das Rheingold | Probably in the Merrion Hotel | 2.00 p.m. |
| December 17th 2010 | Supper and Ballot for Bayreuth Tickets 2010 | United Arts Club,3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street,Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
Programme of Events 2008/2009 Season (Back to top of page)
Date |
Event |
Location |
Time |
| January 30th 2008 | Bernard Clarke, Lyric FM "Wagner & 20th Century Music" |
United Arts Club,3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street,Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| February 27th 2008 | Special General Meeting | United Arts Club,3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street,Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| March 26th 2008 | Piano Recital by Deborah Armstrong- Transcriptions of Wagner's Music. | The Royal Irish Academy of Music, 36-38 Westland Row, Dublin 2 | 7.00 p.m. |
| October 29th 2008 | Col. Brendan Power, Honorary Member Director of Defence Forces School of Music "Wagner Forces" |
United Arts Club,3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street,Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| December 17th 2008 | Dinner and Ballot of Tickets, Bayreuther Festspiele 2009. | United Arts Club,3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street,Dublin 2 | 7.30 for 8.00 p.m. |
| January 29th 2009 | Dr Veronica Dunne will speak on "The Art of the Voice | United Arts Club,3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street,Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| February 25th 2009 | 6th Annual General Meeting | United Arts Club,3 Upper Fitzwilliam Street,Dublin 2 | 8.00 p.m. |
| March 26th 2009 | Derek Watson - An illustrated talk on “Richard Wagner's Arthurian Quest” | Herbert Park Hotel, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 | 8.00 p.m. |