The Wagner Society committee are hosting the next informal get-together on Wednesday 31st January from 7pm at The Punchbowl, 41 Farm Street, Mayfair. Students and those under 30 are particularly encouraged, but anyone is welcome to join! Please sign up by emailing secretary@wagnersociety.org to let us know you will be attending. Do come along and […]

The talk will cover the key events leading up to the death of Richard Wagner and try to understand what exactly happened on the day of his death (13th February 1883).

If the legacy of Richard Wagner is chiefly musical and theatrical, in France, the composer’s innovations arguably had an even bigger impact on literature. From Baudelaire to Mallarmé, to Colette and Proust, the most important French writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century all produced influential commentary on Wagner in their essays, poetry, […]