Events

We are delighted to welcome back both Patrick Carnegy and Christopher Cook to the Wagner Society.  In Wagner’s Theatre, Patrick Carnegy presents the turbulent story of Wagner and his interpreters over the course of the twentieth century. Carnegy gives vivid accounts of Gustav Mahler’s radical reinvention of the Wagnerian stage, and of the post-war rehabilitation of […]

Tuesday 8th September at 7pm via Zoom "Language, Sound, and the Aesthetic Archaic Register", Part 3 of the series with Dr Thomas Launius: "Listening to Parsifal: Contexts, Sources, and Open Questions" In Parsifal, Wagner creates more than characters, music, and drama: he creates an entire mythic language. Using archaic expressions, biblical cadences, liturgical echoes, and poetic […]