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TICKET EXCHANGE SERVICE

This page has been created for members to benefit from a service to allow them to exchange, gift, sell or buy unwanted opera tickets, or items they wish to sell related to the world of Richard Wagner in the section entitled Trading Post (see below).

To feature your tickets on this page, please send full details of what you have to dispose of, including cost, position of the seats to: webmaster(at)wagnersociety.org

The society gives no warranty as to the bona-fide nature of these sales and members must make their own investigations as to whether sellers have the right to sell them in this manner.

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DIE MEISTERSINGER 17 July 2010

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TRADING POST SERVICE

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The Wagner Society of New York

The Wagner Society of New York would like to include our Society to a special offering that was first made available during the Metropolitan Opera’s final performances of the Schenk/Schneider-Siemssen Ring.

Some of our members may have seen the book that WSNY recently published, either at various Society functions or in the Met Gift Shop. This 48-page soft-cover book of excerpts from “The Stage – My Life” by the renowned designer Günther Schneider-Siemssen has 27 colour production photos, including from his Met productions (not only Wagner), 25 black- and- white photos, sketches and discussion of his remarkable career with his innovative lighting and stage designs, and his extensive work with Herbert von Karajan and Otto Schenk, among other giants of opera. It includes contributions from Plácido Domingo, August Everding, Götz Friedrich and Hans Hotter. Few people are aware that Mr. Schneider-Siemssen has done productions in ten U.S. cities and has done seven different Ring productions.

The complete book, a conversation with Kurt Pahlen, was originally published in 1996 in German (“Die Bühne – Mein Leben”) and has never before been published in English. The translation is by James Mulder.

Given the enduring appeal of Mr. Schneider-Siemssen's productions, both here and abroad, some who didn’t have the opportunity to visit the Met during these or earlier Ring cycles may wish to purchase the book, of which there is a limited number of copies remaining. The New York Wagner Society would like to invite London members to purchase the book via credit card. The book price, $29, is cheaper than the Met’s price, which was $35. And for this offer to U.S. and London societies, we are extending a special price of $25, a saving of $4 off the price stated in the order form.

The book, we feel, is a wonderful, collectible memento of the final Schneider-Siemssen Ring at the Met, and of all his great productions.

Contact the The New York Wagner Society

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A member of the society  has a collection of Bayreuth Year Books from 1966 to 1993; (1984 is  missing) Enquiries to:

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WAGNER, Richard  1813-1883. Tannhäuser [WWV 70]. Important autograph musical manuscript sketch leaf.

The first 12 measures of the "Old Pilgrim's Chorus" from Act III Scene I of Tannhäuser. Unsigned and undated, but probably 1842-1843. Notated in red ink on 18-stave paper measuring approximately 355 x 270 mm., the music scored for tenor and bass. Preserved in a custom-made linen clamshell archival box with printed paper label to spine.

With titling in Wagner's hand: "Venusberg [the original name of the opera] Hymne der Pilger." With numerous additional autograph musical notations, numeric lists, and the address of a writer to right-hand margin extending into lower portion of leaf in both ink and pencil.

Provenance and References

Formerly in the famed Louis Koch collection as documented by Dr. Georg Kinsky in his Manuscripte Briefe Dokumente von Scarlatti bis Stravinsky Katalog der Musikautographen-Sammlung Louis Koch, Stuttgart, 1953, catalogue no. 249, pp. 246-247. Deathridge, Geck & Voss: Wagner Werk-Verzeichnis, p. 269 (b).

Slightly worn and soiled; inconsequential narrow ink smudge to lower portion of leaf not seriously affecting musical notation; some paper loss to corners not affecting text; several small tears professionally repaired not affecting musical notation. Creased at central horizontal fold. 

The music in this sketch is particularly interesting as it includes the nucleus of the melody found in the overture. Earlier descriptions date this leaf at 1842; Millington, however, states that the textual sketches date from the summer of 1842 and that the earliest musical sketches date from 1843.

"The idea of basing an opera on the Tannhäuser story had already occurred to Wagner during his ill-fated stay in Paris (1839-42), but it was during a summer holiday in Bohemia, shortly after he had returned from France, that the work began to take shape. The first, detailed prose draft (28 June - 6 July 1842) was followed in the spring of 1843 by the libretto itself; then after a number of sketches for individual sections of the work came two complete drafts apparently worked on in tandem (summer/autumn 1843 to January 1845). The first of these two drafts, less developed than the second, exists only in fragmentary form, but it has been painstakingly pieced together by scholars (most, but not all, of the fragments are in the Bayreuth archives). The Overture was written last and the full score completed on 13 April 1845." Millington, ed.: The Wagner Companion, p. 281.  (19081)     

Price asked $12,000.

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The newly opened Palau de les Arts Opera House and arts centre in Valencia

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