Saturday, June 1, 2013, 8:00 pm
Music Center at Strathmore
5301 Tuckerman Ln, North Bethesda, MD
Metro to Grosvenor-Strathmore on Red Line

Attention Wagner novices and aficionados alike! The National Philharmonic, under the direction of Conductor Piotr Gajewski, presents selections from each of Richard Wagner’s 10 best-known operas to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the composer’s birth.

Call 301-581-5100 and mention promotion code NPWagner for a 20% discount on tickets! For online purchases, please use source code 3066. Kids 7-17 Free (available for purchases made by phone or in person). Offers not applicable to previously purchased tickets.

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Sunday, June 2, 2013, 6:00 p.m.
Kennedy Center, Millennium Stage, Washington, DC
Metro to Foggy Bottom on Orange and Blue Lines

One of America’s most promising young tenors, Issachah Savage, a native of Philadelphia and a resident of Washington DC, has enjoyed a performing and teaching career for many years. He is just beginning his Wagner career and was the winner of the Wagner Division in the Liederkranz Competition and has numerous other prestigious awards such as the Grand Prize of the Marcello Giordani Foundation Vocal Competition. He has studied most recently with the Dolora Zajick Institute for Young Dramatic Voices and is a protégé of the Wagner Society of Washington DC.

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This event is FREE and open to the public.

Tuesday, June 18, 2013, 7:30 p.m.
Goethe-Institut, 812 7th Street, NW, Washington, DC
Metro to Gallery Place/Chinatown on Red, Green, and Yellow Lines
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Israeli-born conductor Asher Fisch will discuss his career with particular attention to the works of Wagner. Maestro Fisch appears with many of the world’s most renowned opera companies and symphony orchestras. With a vast repertoire that spans three centuries stylistically from Gluck to Adams, Maestro Fisch is particularly known and appreciated for his interpretive command of core German Romantic and post-Romantic repertoire, from Beethoven through Berg, including virtually the entire canon of Wagner and Strauss.He is currently conducting Parsifal at the Metropolitan Opera and will conduct three Ring Cycles in Seattle this summer.

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This event is FREE and open to the public.

Presented by the Wagner Society of Washington DC in partnership with the Goethe-Institut.

Our 13th Annual Weekend Retreat (a Members-only event)

An electronic version of our latest newsletter is now available. Click here to download it.

The Wagner Society of Washington DC is proud to publish Chairman Jim Holman's latest book, Quo Vadis, Wagner? Approaching the Bicentennial. A collection of essays by distinguished Wagner analysts, the book examines the question of Wagner's place in the 21st century from a number of different perspectives. Contributor's include Leon Botstein, Barry Millington, Thomas Grey, Saul Lilienstein and a dozen others. The book is a significant contribution to Wagner studies as we approach the bicentennial of the composer's birth.

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The book is available through the Wagner Society of Washington DC. Use the payment form below to get your copy!

A little Wagner music for your stocking? No politics—no Freudian analysis—no arcane discussions of wives, sweethearts, petty hatreds, financial dealings, egocentricities—vegetarianism or choices in satin underwear distracts from the essential core that keeps us going back to Wagner’s Music Dramas: the greatness within the music, the majesty of his artistic conceptions.

Long awaited recording of Saul Lilienstein’s all-day seminar at the Goethe Institut on March 19, 2011.

$40 for the set of four CDs
(includes shipping and handling)

AVAILABLE ONLY THROUGH WSWDC

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