From 7.30pm ANTHONY NEGUS: Treading the Wagnerian Road at Longborough through the Ring to Tristan und Isolde 2000-2015
Anthony Negus writes: "My talk will lead us through preparing and performing a reduced version of the Ring with an ensemble of 18, then 24 players, to embarking in 2007 on the full Rheingold with an enlarged pit, and an orchestra of 62. Between then and 2013 we gradually built the whole Ring cycle which we performed 3 times in the bicentenary year of Wagner's birth. A concert in 2014 which included the Wesendonck Lieder sung by Rachel Nicholls paved the way for our Tristan und Isolde this year.
With regard to myself:' I decided that I wanted to be a conductor,inspired by Toscanini recordings, when aged 14, and went down the Opera Repetiteur route whilst also concentrating on my clarinet playing. Meeting Else Mayer-Lismann and taking part in her Workshop as pianist and conductor in London 1963 onwards,helped to open the way that I pursued. After a few years in Germany, I spent 35 years on WNO Music Staff where I conducted a wide range of operas by Beethoven,Berg,Gluck, Janacek,Martinu, MacMillan,Mozart,R.Strauss,Verdi,Wagner and Weber. Now as a freelance coach and conductor I am free to take up whatever may come my way, and am happy to spread my wings a little!"
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