The Wagner Society of Scotland

NEXT EVENTS

Please note, all monthly talks are being delivered online via Zoom, except the AGM (Zoom for members only) and talk by Laurence Dreyfus on 8th December, and the talk by Hans Rudolf Vaget on 30th March, both of which will be in-person events at the Edinburgh Society of Musicians.  A link to join each Zoom meeting will be sent to members closer to the event, and to non-members once you have obtained your ticket for the event.

29th October – 7.00 pm.  Please note this is a Tuesday.  This will be a joint Zoom event with the Wagner Societies in London and Manchester, hosted by London.  Members  will receive the Zoom link from their own society.

Ulrich Jagels – “View Behind the Scenes at the Bayreuth Festspiele”

Managing Director of the Bayreuth Festival.

View behind the scenes of Bayreuther Festspiele covering the changing Audience, Sales and Marketing initiatives, Finance, and Building renovations.

Jagels, who is a business economist, has held positions at the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival Foundation, Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre gGmbH Berlin (roc berlin), Städtische Theater Chemnitz gGmbH and, most recently, as Administrative Director of the Leipzig Opera, where he was responsible for several construction projects with an estimated total volume of 30 million euros – including the elaborate renovation of the Musikalische Komödie, one of the few German theaters specifically for the operetta genre.

29^th October 2024
Ulrich Jagels
View Behind the Scenes at the Bayreuth Festspiele

24^th November 2024
Rachell Nicholls (Soprano)
in conversation with Derek Williams

8^th December 2024

Annual General Meeting (Members only)
followed by Laurence Dreyfus
Wagner and the Erotic Impulse in Munich