Weekend Wagner

Weekend Wagner

The NSW Wagner Society presents composer, writer and broadcaster, Andrew Ford in a talk entitled After Wagner. Wagner’s legacy, musical and otherwise, has long been an unavoidable issue for the composers who followed him. There were those who embraced his example, like Bruckner, Schoenberg, Debussy; and those who rejected it, like Stravinsky, Satie . . . and Debussy…

NSW Wagner Society Presents Russian Wagnerians

NSW Wagner Society Presents Russian Wagnerians

Writer, scholar, translator and lecturer Dr Rosamund Bartlett presents Zigfrid and Bryungilda, a presentation on Russian Wagnerians for the Wagner Society of New South Wales. Rosamund Bartlett has a doctorate from Oxford University on Wagner and Russia. Her most recent books include Tolstoy: A Russian Life and a new translation of Anna Karenina.   She has also written a biography of…