On this page, will be adding events that are being put on by other North American Wagner Societies.

The Boston Wagner Society has announced a line-up of upcoming meeting for its’ 2023-2024 season:

December 9th 2023 2pm Boston Public Library Rabb Hall

Wendy Bryn Harmer (Soprano) in Recital

January 6th 2024 2pm Boston Public Library Commonwealth Salon

Kip Cranna presents ‘Wagner in his Youth: How Beethoven and Bellini won his heart’

January 14th 2024 2pm

Saul Lilienstein presents ‘Richard Wagner: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ (Zoom presentation)

Mid-March 2024 (Time and venue tbd)

Katherine Goforth (Tenor) in Recital

Katherine is the first winner of the True Voice Competition.

More events to follow!

All events free to members.

Please consider joining the Boston Wagner Society

For more information, please check out their website: https://www.bostonwagnersociety.org/

TRIANGLE WAGNER SOCIETY

Triangle Wagner Society Program Featuring Michael Steinberg,
Professor of History and Music and German Studies at Brown University

 “Richard Wagner and the Nationalization of Feeling:
An Exhibition in the German Historical Museum”

Join the Triangle Wagner Society on Sunday, December 3, 2023 for a Zoom program featuring Michael Steinberg. The topic will be “Richard Wagner and the Nationalization of Feeling: An Exhibition in the German Historical Museum.” The program is sponsored by Richard Sarles, MD and Virginia Clark.
 

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Richard Wagner inspires a unique combination of admiration and disgust. He is known for both his brilliant operas and for his flagrant antisemitism. His legacy includes both his music drama and his nationalist political writings. Although Wagner was long dead by the time the Nazis celebrated his musical works as symbolic of the pure German culture that they hoped to promote, Hitler greatly admired his music, which was often played at party rallies.
 
In 2022, Michael Steinberg, cultural historian at Brown University, curated an exhibition at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin called “Richard Wagner and the Nationalization of Feeling.” Describing Wagner as a “technician of emotions,” the show followed a series of four key emotions—alienation, eros, belonging, disgust—through which the composer’s work can be understood. The show included objects from collections all over Europe, an audio installation from Barrie Kosky, General Director of the Komische Oper Berlin, and video interviews with Waltraud Meier and Stefan Herheim. Michael’s talk will focus on the development of the exhibition and on the reaction to it, with a segue to a new Wagner project currently underway.
 

ABOUT MICHAEL P. STEINBERG

Michael P. Steinberg is the Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, and Professor of Music and German Studies at Brown University in Providence, RI. From 2016 to 2018, he served as President of the American Academy in Berlin. At Brown, he served as the founding director of the Cogut Institute for the Humanities (2005–2015), as Vice Provost for the Arts (2015–16), and on the Academic Priorities Committee in 2019–20. He was member of the Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI) between 2006 and 2016. He serves as a board member of Bard College Berlin, as well as the Barenboim-Said Foundation (USA).
 
Steinberg’s books include The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal (Stanford, 2022), The Trouble with Wagner (Chicago, 2018) as well as the edited volume Makers of Jewish Modernity (Princeton, 2016; winner of the National Jewish Book Award for non–fiction); Listening to Reason: Culture, Subjectivity, and Nineteenth-Century Music (Princeton, 2004), and Austria as Theater and Ideology: The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival (Cornell, 2000), of which the German edition (Ursprung und Ideologie der Salzburger Festspiele, Verlag Anton Pustet, 2000) won Austria’s Victor Adler–Staatspreis in 2001.

Educated at Princeton University and the University of Chicago, Steinberg has been a visiting professor at these two schools as well as at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. He was a member of the Cornell University Department of History between 1988 and 2005, as well as a fellow of the American Academy in Berlin in 2003 and at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin in 2015–16. He is the recipient of fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Between 2009 and 2013, he served as dramaturg on a co-production of Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung at the Berlin State Opera and the Teatro alla Scala, Milan. He curated the exhibition “Richard Wagner and the Nationalization of Feeling” at the German Historical Museum in Berlin (April–September 2022).
 

PROGRAM DETAILS

The program will be by Zoom. It will begin at 2:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time and conclude by 3:30 p.m. Members and guests who have registered and paid can log in at 1:30 p.m. eastern time for informal conversation.
 
We will record the program and send the link to all Triangle Wagner Society members who have paid 2023 and/or 2024 dues and to guests who register and pay in advance.
 

REGISTRATION AND GUEST PAYMENT

If you have not already done so and plan to participate on the day of the event or would like to receive a link to the recording of the program, please register with Martha Dimes: marthadimes@gmail.com or (919) 368-0542.

The event is free for Triangle Wagner Society members who have paid 2023 and/or 2024 dues. The guest fee is $15. There are several options for payment:

• Pay online by using PayPal (credit cards accepted), plus the PayPal fee.
• Mail a check made out to Triangle Wagner Society to our Treasurer, Richard Falvo, at 427 Wild Rose Lane, Pittsboro, NC 27312.

TRIANGLE WAGNER SOCIETY UPCOMING PROGRAMS

• January 7, 2024, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Zoom program with Barry Millington on “Edward Burne-Jones, George Eliot, and Richard Wagner: A Collision of Like-Minded Souls”
   
• January 28, 2024, 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. Live program with Francesca Zambello on “Wagner’s Ring Cycle and Rossini’s Barber of Seville [being performed at NC Opera]”
   
• February 11, 2024, 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Zoom program with Kirsten Paige on “Richard Wagner’s Political Ecology”