Dear members
Here are some assorted
reminders and some news about forthcoming external events to keep you going
over the festive period:
First the reminders:
The first annual
dinner hosted by the Liszt, Alkan, Berlioz and Wagner Societies on January 24th.
Alkan,
Berlioz, Liszt and Wagner Societies dinner to inaugurate,
celebrate
and promote the closer working of these Societies
7 to 10pm
(approx) on Thursday 24th January
A piano recital
by Mark Viner followed by a two course dinner
Cara Mchardy
will also perform the Liebestod accompanied by Ben Woodward
The Forge
Restaurant, 3-7 Delancey Street, Camden Town, London NW1 7NL
Price : £40
per head including wine. Non-member guests welcome
http://www.forgevenue.org/visit-the-forge
Requests for attendance to: Jim Vincent, The
Liszt Society, 3 Offlands Court, Reading Road, Moulsford, Oxon OX10 9EX Tel:
01491 651842 e-mail: jim.vincent@hotmail.co.uk
Payment by Paypal (destination address: treasurer@lisztsoc.org.uk ) or by cheque payable to The
Liszt Society. Applications must be received before 3rd January 2013. No
tickets will be issued and a list of attendees will be held on the door.
Members applying for places electronically will be notified by e-mail. Members
applying by post are requested to provide a self-addressed stamped envelope if
they require written confirmation.
Second reminder - please renew your
membership before January 1st 2013 if you have not already done so. The
cost of membership will increase by £5 per person (£10 for joint membership) on
the first day of next year. We are holding our prices for all current members
who renew in time. Please don't forget to do this. All new members will pay the
increased fees, so there is every reason to ensure you take advantage of last
year's prices.
And now some news about events, recordings
etc.
1. Click on the link
below to hear an encore broadcast from La Scala's new Lohengrin, with Jonas
Kauffmann. Irritatingly for us in the UK, this was broadcast live on French/German
TV channel Arte, but was not shown at many, if any, cinemas in the UK! If you
hunt around on YouTube, you can find it.
http://sites.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/_c/php/emission/popupMP3.php?e=80000056&d=515004063
Irritatingly for us in
the UK, this was broadcast live on French/German TV channel Arte, but was not
shown at many, if any, cinemas in the UK! If you hunt around on YouTube, you
can find it. Try this link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYt64nBUM38
2. Dress Rehearsal of
WNO's Lohengrin - Monday May 20th 2013 - for members who live in the Birmingham
area
Please see the note
below from Andy Taylor, Manager of the Friends of WNO :
We thought you
might like to know that the Birmingham Friends of WNO are organising a coach trip to the Wales Millennium Centre for the
dress rehearsal of Lohengrin. Please see the attached booking form for more information. It occurred to Dorothy Tesh the Branch
Chairman that Society members around Birmingham might be interested
in the trip? Can you perhaps liaise directly with Dorothy if you think there
might be takers. Her contacts are
· Email jt004i6253@blueyonder.co.u
3. Tickets on sale now
for the new film "Quartet" featuring Dame Gwyneth Jones - opening
January 1st in London at Curzon cinemas (and doubtless elsewhere)
I will send details in
a separate email shortly.
4. Dijon Opera's Ring
in 2 days...
Dijon Opera announce new Ring Cycle in
2013 - in two days!
Dijon Opera
have announced that in 2013 they will perform an entirely new, fully staged
Ring Cycle in a festival lasting just two days! Each day will see performances
of two of Wagner's Dramas: Rheingold and Walkure on day one followed by
Siegfried and Götterdämmerung on day two.
In an laudable attempt to make Wagner accessible to more people, seats prices
will range from 5 euros to 25 euros for a full cycle. Top seat prices at 150
Euros for a full cycle. What looks like a fine cast will include Daniel Brenna
- a performer whose lyrical Siegfried we have enjoyed greatly on the past.
And the "concept and theme" that informs this cyclce? A very
interesting one it would seem In the words of Dijon Opera:
Friedelind, freedom fighter
The project as a whole adopts the reading of Wagner’s works defended by
his grand-daughter during her American exile: humanism, defence of liberty
against barbarity, poetry of the luminescent characters invented by
Wagner.
As a mirror to these performances, the Dijon Opera is organizing an exhibit
devoted to the unpublished archives of Friedelind Wagner (letters, photographs,
notes taken during rehearsals by Maestro Toscanini, writings
during the Second World War).
Within such time frames there will of course be obvious
cuts to the text.
Cast:
Dijon Bourgogne Orchestra
Choir of the Dijon Opera
Musical director Daniel Kawka
Stage director Laurent Joyeux
Dramatist & co- stage director Stephen Sazio
Scenography Damien Caille-Perret
Scenography assistant Roberta Chiarito
Costumes Claudia Jenatsch
Brünhilde Sabine Hogrefe
Siegfried Daniel Brenna
Wotan Thomas Bauer
Sieglinde | Gutrune | 3rd Norne Joséphine Weber
Siegmund Andrew Rees
Fricka | Waltraute | schwertleite | 2nd norne Manuela Bress
erda | 1st Norne Katja Starke
loge Andrew Zimmerman
mime Florian Simson
alberich | Gunther Nicholas Flowell
fafner | Hunding | Hagen Christian Hübner
fasolt Francisco-Javier Borda
WOGLIN DE | ORTLIN DE | HELMWIGE | FREIA Hanne Roos
Flosshilde | Siegrune | grimgerde Anna Wall
WELLGUN DE | GERHILDE | ROSS WEISE Cathy van Roy
Dates:
October 2013
Sat 5 4 p.m. Das Rheingold 7 p.m. Die Walküre
Sun 6 4 p.m. Siegfried 8 p.m. G ötterdämmerung
Wed 9 6:30 p.m. Das Rheingold 9:30 p.m. Die Walküre
Sat 12 4 p.m. Das Rheingold 7 p.m. Die Walküre
Sun 13 4 p.m. S iegfried 8 p.m. Götterdämmerung
Tues 15 6 p.m. Siegfried 10 p.m. Götterdämmerung
More information and Tickets: Dijon
Opera
THE COMMITTEE OF THE WAGNER SOCIETY WISH YOU ALL A VERY PEACEFUL
AND JOYFUL CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR
ANDREA BUCHANAN
Secretary
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