Prior to the production of Tristan und Isolde at Longborough Festival Opera this summer, Anthony Negus and Carmen Jakobi present an analysis and discussion of  the Tagesgespraech in Act 2. They will be joined by the understudies for Isolde and Tristan for the Longborough production: Jenufa Gleich and Brian Smith Walters.
This summer sees the start of Grange Park Opera’s Der Ring Des Nibelungen with their first instalment – Das Rheingold. Director and Set Designer, Charlie Edwards and Conductor Harry Sever, will be joining us at Swedenborg Hall on 3rd June to share insights into background concepts behind the production, from themes created by the set […]
Tuesday 9th June at 7pm via Zoom "How Wagner Developed his own Mythic Storyline", Part 2 of the series with Dr Thomas Launius: "Listening to Parsifal: Contexts, Sources, and Open Questions" In his last opera, Wagner created not simply an opera but a new myth — one that ever since has provoked rich and sometimes […]