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FOUNDED 1953
President: Dame Gwyneth Jones DBE, Kammersängerin
Vice President: Sir John Tomlinson CBE
Chairman: Jeremy D Rowe B.Ed.
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Plácido Domingo Esq., and Sir Antonio Pappano
receiving their Reginald Goodall awards
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Ralph Wells is greeted by Dame Gwyneth Jones
Kelvin Lim
The President, Chair and Hon Secretary with guests from Ute Armanski vice-president of the Munich Wagner Society and Professor Hans-Michael Schneider, vice-president of Richard Wagner Verband International.
The President and Chair with guests from the Munich Wagner Society
The President and Chair with Zoe South
Zoe South and Kelvin Lim
Friday 6th January 2012
Annual Dinner
The Wagner Society Annual Dinner, hosted by our President Dame Gwyneth Jones and our Chair, Jeremy D Rowe.
Please click this link to see a video of an extract of the performance
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Thursday 5th January 2012
LIEDERABEND
ST PAUL’S CHURCH, COVENT GARDEN
ALISON PEARCE (soprano) DAVID SYRUS (piano)
Please click this link to see a video of an extract of the performance
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Saturday 3rd December
BAYREUTH BURSARY COMPETITION
Please click on link from the highlighted text below to see an excerpt of Helena Dix's chosen winning aria.
Helena Dix
BAYREUTH BURSARY COMPETITION WINNER
Further images can be seen by
clicking here
14:30 Mastersingers presented SCENES FROM GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG with
Alwyn Mellor Brünnhilde, Stuart Pendred Hagen, Andrew Mayor Gunther,
Niamh Kelly First Norn, Catherine Young Second Norn, Meta Powell Third Norn.
Directed by Christopher Cowell, with David Syrus, Piano
16:00 The Wagner Society annual Bayreuth Bursary competition
Finalists : Justine Viani, Thomas Humphreys, Helena Dix, Simon Lobelson,
Jonathan Stoughton, Ione Cumming, Charne Rochford and Miriam Sharrad
Panel:
Dame Anne Evans (Chair), David Syrus (Head of Music ROH)
and James Rutherford
Kelvin Lim, piano
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SCENES FROM GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
Stuart Pendred (Hagen) Andrew Mayor (Gunter) Elaine McKrill (Brünnhilde) Kimberley Myers (Gutrune)
Catherine Young (Second Norn) Naimh Kelly
(First Norn) Meta Powell (Third Norn)
Stuart Pendred Naimh Kelly Catherine Young Meta Powell Kimberley Myers
Elaine McKrill Stuart Pendred
Stuart Pendred Andrew Mayor Elaine McKrill
Stuart Pendred Elaine McKrill Andrew Mayor
Stuart Pendred Kimberley Myers
Naimh Kelly Elaine McKrill Catherine Young Kimberley Myers Meta Powell
Meta Powell
Stuart Pendred Naimh Kelly Elaine McKrill Catherine Young Meta Powell Kimberley Myers
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Wednesday 16th November 2011
Prof Tim Blanning
"Richard Wagner, Frederick the Great and the Sacralisation of Art"
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Sunday October 16th 2011
The Rehearsal Orchestra
Alwyn Mellor and her Siegfried, Jonathan Stoughton
Miriam Sharrard as Waltraute The conductor, David Syrus.
Scenes from Götterdämmerung
with the Rehearsal Orchestra, Conductor: David Syrus
Presented by The Mastersingers Supported by the Wagner Society
With our great thanks to photographer Peter West who has taken these images. He can be contacted by clicking here: Donnington Art
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Thursday 29th September 2011
"I still owe the world a Tannhäuser."
A talk by Ross Alley
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Wednesday 6th July 2011
"AN EVENING WITH LOTTE LEHMANN"
Chairman Jeremy D Rowe
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Tuesday 7th June 2011
The Annual General Meeting
and
"Wann färht die nächste Schwan?" (Slezak)
President Dame Gwyneth Jones. Ross Alley, Neil Howlett.
President Dame Gwyneth Jones prepares to address the AGM Malcom Rivers immediate past Chairman of Society delivers his report to the AGM
Mike Morgan (Treasurer) delivers his report to AGM
With our great thanks to photographer Peter West who has taken these images. He can be contacted by clicking here: Donnington Art
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Judy and George Cooper, who provide the refreshment service for events, to whom our special thanks goes out.
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With our great thanks to photographer Peter West who has taken the majority of these images. He can be contacted by clicking here: Donnington Art,
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Thanks also to Ben Rowe for images taken of Placido Domingo Ben Rowe Photography and lastly, to the web master Ian Jones, for other shots webmaster@wagnersociety.org
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