2007 / 2008 Season

Jeffrey Swann concert, September 1, 2007: Swann Information Flyer. and Swann Press Announcement.

2006 / 2007 Season

Wagner in der Wildnis (Lohengrin), annual weekend retreat in West Virginia, June 1-3, 2007: information and reservations .

Die Walküre, Washington National Opera, Opening Night, March 24, 2007: Events Information Flyer.

Thomas May, Visualizing Die Walküre, March 22, 2007: May Information Flyer, bottom.

Donald Crosby, Wagner in Switzerland, February 15, 2007: Crosby Information Flyer, top.

Program honoring Thomas Stewart, with Tim Page, Washington Post, January 19, 2007: Press Announcement and Information Flyer.

Donald Collup, Producer, December 7, 2006: Collup Information Flyer.

Robert Bailey, Professor of Music at New York University, and Graduate Faculty member at the Juilliard School, November 8, 2006: Bailsy Information Flyer and Bailey Press Announcement.

Jeffrey Swann, Concert pianist and estimed lecturer, August 3, 2006, at the German Embassy Swann Press Announcement.

2005 / 2006 Season

The 12th Emerging Singers Concert, June 14, 2006, with the McLean Orchestra:  ESP Press Announcement and ESP Information Flyer.

Wagner in der Wildnis, June 2-4, 2006, The Wagner Society's 6th weekend in West Virginia, focusing on Parsifal;  Wildnis Information Flyer.

Carolyn Abbate, Professor of Music, Harvard University, May 18, 2006: Abbate Press Announcement.

Wagner Society Banquet, May 12, 2006: Banquet Information Flyer.

John Edward Niles, WSWDC Board Member and Music Director, Opera Theater of Northern Virginia; April 13, 2006: Niles Press Announcement.

Frabcesca Zambello, Director, Das Rheingold; March 18, 2006:  Zambello Press Announcement.

Simon Williams, Professor of Dramatic Arts, February 23, 2006:  Williams Press Announcement.

Events: Winter, Spring 2006:   Events Information Flyer.

Irwin Shainmen, professor, musician, and conductor, at the German Embassy; January 19, 2006:  Shainman Press Announcement.

Jeffrey Swann, musician, pianist, and lecturer, at the German Embassy; December 7, 2005:  Jeffrey Swann Flyer.

Alan Walker, McMaster Professor Emeritus; November 10, 2005:  Walker Press Announcement and Walker Flyer.

Phil Raines, Lecturer and WSWDC Board member, October 20, 2005:  Raines Press Announcement.

Emerging Singers Concert, October 14,2005:  ESP Press Announcement and ESP Flyer.

Iain Scott, educator and lecturer, September 15, 2005:   Scott Press Announcement.

2004 / 2005 Season

Gala Benefit, June 8, 2005, at the Hyatt Regency Hotel:   Gala Benefit details.

Wagner in der Wildnis, V: Die Meistersinger weekend: June 3-5. 2005, in West Virginia:  Wildnis Information Flyer.

The Tenth Evelyn Lear and Thomas Sewart Emerging Singers Concert, Friday, May 27, 2005:  10th ESP Concert Press Announcement.

Hugh Macdonald, Professor of Music, Washington University, May 12, 2005:  Macdonald Information Flyer or the Macdonald Press Announcement.

William Berger, lecturer and author, April 14, 2005:   Berger Information Flyer.

Dana Gioia, Chairman, National Endowment for the Arts, on creating poetry and opera libretti, March 17, 2005:   Gioia Press Announcement.

Simon Morrison, Music Faculty, Princeton University, on "Tchaikovsky's Miracle" Decomber 9, 2004:  Morrison Press Announcement.

Oswald Georg Bauer, the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts in Munich, on "The False Prophet: The Premiere Production of Le Prophète in Paris and Wagner's Strategy of Denunciation", October 21, 2004:  Bauer Press Announcement.

Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart Emerging Singers Program Concert, at the German Embassy, October 08, 2004:  ESP Press Announcement.

John DiGaetani, Professor, Hofstra University, on "Wagner and Suicide", September 23, 2004:  DiGaetani Press Announcement.

2003 / 2004 Season

Irmgard Wagner, Professor Emerita of German, on "Where is Wagner's Faust?", May 13, 2004:  I.Wagner Press Announcement.

Jeffrey Swann, prize-winning pianist and lecturer, on "Tristan and the Mystic Experience", April 15, 2004:  Swann Biography;  Swann Press Announcement.

Edward R. Haymes, Professor and author, on "The Two Rings" (Tolkien's and Wagner's), March 18, 2004:  Haymes Information Flyer.

James McCourt, author, on "The Wagnerian Femme Fatale", February 19, 2004:  McCourt Press Announcement.

Jeffrey L. Buller, scholar, author, and Dean of Mary Baldwin College on "Siegfried: The Wurm Turns", January 22, 2004:  Buller Information Flyer.

Nicholas Vazsonyi, author, on "The Wagner Industry and the Audience of the Future: Another Look at Die Meistersinger", Decenber 11, 2003:  Vazsonyi Press Announcement.

Wagner Night at the Movies!  "The Golden Ring -- the Making of Solti's Ring" and "Anna Russell -- The (First) Farewell Concert", November 13, 2003:  Movies Press Announcement.

Opening night of Die Walküre at The Washington Opera, November 5, 2003:  Opera Information Flyer.

Cory Ellison, Dramaturg, NY City Opera on "A Ride with the Valkyries" October 30, 2003:  Ellison Press Announcement.

Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart Emerging Singers Program Concert -- September 21, 2003, at Baird Auditorium, following the WSWDC-Smithsonian 3-day Seminar on Wagner's Ring:   ESP Press Announcement.

2002 / 2003 Season

Wagner in der Wildnis, III (Die Walküere) -- the Wagner Society's third weekend in West Virginia:  Wildnis Information Flyer.

John Pohanka, Businessman, Philanthropist, and WSWDC Board member, on "Wagner, The Mystic" May 29, 2003:  Pohanka Press Announcement;  Pohanka Flyer.

Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart Emerging Singers Program Concert -- May 2003, at the German Embassy:  ESP information flyer.

Carol Berger, Musicologist, "At the Heart of Die Walküere, March 13, 2003:  Berger Press Announcement.

Dean Jeffrey Buller, Mary Baldwin College, "Sleep in the Ring", February 20, 2003:  Buller Press Announcement.

Professor Carolyn Abbate, Princeton University, "Die Walküre and the Dream of the Secret", January 16, 2003:  Abbate Press Announcement.

Phillip W. Raines, "A Productional Ride through Die Walküre", December 12, 2002:   Raines Press Announcement.

Saul Lilienstein, "Die Walküre: On the Mind of Mann: the Influence and the Insight", November 14, 2002:   Lilienstein Press Announcement.

An October Weekend of Wagner Events:  See Events Information Flyer,
    and the Virginia Opera matinée performance of Die Walküre, October 13, 2002:  Opera Events Flyer.

Evelyn Lear, "All about Evelyn: An Evening with Evelyn Lear",  September 19, 2002:  Lear Press Announcement.

2001 / 2002 Season

Carol Berger, "The Dialectics in Die Meistersinger: Sacred Rituals",  March 14, 2002:  Berger Press Announcement.

Prof. Donald Crosby, "Origins of Originality: Richard Wagner and the German Tradition",  February 14, 2002:  Crosby Press Announcement.

Dr. Elise Kirk, "Wagnerism and the American Muse",  January 17, 2002:  Upcoming Programs Flyer or Kirk Program.

Phillip W. Raines, "Human Dramatic Elements and Events in Die Meistersinger",  December 2001:  Raines Press Announcement.

Saul Lilienstein, "Die Meistersinger in Historical Perspective",  November 2001:   Lilienstein Press Announcement.

Emerging Singers Program, October 2001:  Concert Press Announcement.

Iain Scott, "Baptism of the Morning Dream: The Quintet from Die Meistersinger",  October 2001:   Scott Press Announcement, and Scott information Flyer.