Wagner as a Bridge: Singing Beyond Boundaries

Katherine Goforth will showcase her powerful, award-winning tenor voice in concert this spring!

Katherine is the first winner of the True Voice Competition for transgender and non-binary singers. Katherine is undeterred by historical barriers in the performing arts and is finding new ways to show up authentically on stage, in the rehearsal room, and as a creative artist.

FREE for BWS members. Nonmembers may purchase tickets here for $35. Student tickets are $10.

Katherine is the recipient of Washington National Opera’s inaugural True Voice Award for transgender and non-binary singers and the Career Advancement Award from the fourth Dallas Symphony Orchestra Women in Classical Music Symposium. She won critical acclaim as part of the cast that premiered Philip Venables and Ted Huffman’s The Faggots and Their Friends Between Revolutions at the Manchester International Festival, Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, and Bregenzer Festspiele. Based in Portland, OR, she has appeared extensively as a soloist with Pacific Northwest-based arts organizations, including Portland Opera, Bozeman Symphony, Walla Walla Symphony, Yakima Symphony, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Opera Bend, Opera Theater Oregon, Sound Salon (formerly Byron Schenkman and Friends), Artists Repertory Theatre, Fuse Theatre Ensemble, and Pink Martini.

Katherine was most recently part of the team that developed and produced Nu Nah-Hup: Sacajawea’s Story, a collaboration with Rose Ann Abrahamson, Sacajawea’s familial descendant, Hovia Edwards, Native American flutist, and Justin Ralls, composer and artistic director of Opera Theater Oregon, starring mezzo-soprano Marion Newman and baritone Richard Zeller. She has written for Opera Canada, and spoken at Boston Conservatory, Whitman College, and Renegade Opera.

Katherine was a member of the International Opera Studio of Oper Köln, received her Bachelor’s degree from St. Olaf College, her Master’s degree from the Juilliard School, and attended the Franz-Schubert-Institut, Britten Pears Young Artist Programme, Heidelberger Frühling Liedakademie, Georg Solti Accademia, and Boston Wagner Institute.

Wendy Bryn Harmer is a young dramatic soprano from Northern California, best known for her roles in Der Ring des Nibelungen.

She will sing in a recital at Rabb Hall at the Copley Square (Central) branch of the Boston Public Library. The concert will be free and open to everyone, BWS members and the public. No tickets necessary.

In the 2023-24 season, she sings her first performances of Brünnhilde in Die Walküre with Atlanta Opera. She also returns to the Metropolitan Opera as Kitty Hart in the new production of Dead Man Walking and sings Ravel’s Shéhérazade with the Utah Symphony. Last season, she returned to Utah Opera for further performances of Senta and sang Sieglinde in Die Walküre in concert with Michigan Opera Theater in addition to returning to the Metropolitan Opera roster for its productions of Lohengrin and Der fliegende Höllander.

Sought-after in German repertoire, she has also recently excelled as Chrysothemis in Elektra with the Metropolitan Opera, Leonore in Fidelio with Opera Omaha and Boston Baroque, the title role of Ariadne auf Naxos with Palm Beach Opera, and Eglantine in von Weber’s rarely-performed Euryanthe at the Bard Music Festival. She previously joined Seattle Opera as well as the Metropolitan Opera, San Francisco Opera, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the Tanglewood Music Festival for operas the Ring Cycle. Her countless performances within the epic work encompass the roles of Sieglinde, Gerhilde, and Orltinde in Die Walküre; Freia in Das Rheingold; and Gutrune and Third Norn in Götterdämmerung.

Join us in celebrating the culmination of the BWI students’ hard work this summer! This will be an all-Wagner concert featuring each student performing memorized, fully-staged Wagner scenes.

Overseen and coached by Jane Eaglen, directed and staged by Danielle Wright, with the orchestral Brett Hodgdon and Robert Mollicone accompanying singers on piano.

The event will be from 4-6pm in Seully Hall at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, who are our gracious hosts for the Institute.

FREE to Boston Wagner Society members and Students with valid ID.

$20 to all others, payable in advance on our website, or at the door.

Boston Wagner Institute will announce more events soon, so join the Boston Wagner Society to take advantage of unlimited free access to all BWI and BWS events!

International Wagnerian Mark Delavan will work with the young singers of the Boston Wagner Institute.

The event will be from 2-4pm in Houston Hall at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, who are our gracious hosts for the Institute.

FREE to Boston Wagner Society members and Students with valid ID.

$20 to all others, payable in advance on our website, or at the door.

Boston Wagner Institute will announce more events soon, so join the Boston Wagner Society to take advantage of unlimited free access to all BWI and BWS events!

International and local Wagnerian Renée Tatum will work with the young singers of the Boston Wagner Institute.

The event will be from 2-4pm in Houston Hall at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, who are our gracious hosts for the Institute.

FREE to Boston Wagner Society members and Students with valid ID.

$20 to all others, payable in advance on our website, or at the door.

Boston Wagner Institute will announce more events soon, so join the Boston Wagner Society to take advantage of unlimited free access to all BWI and BWS events!

Internationally-recognized Wagnerian, founder of BWI, and Boston Wagner Society President Jane Eaglen will work with the students of the Boston Wagner Institute in a public masterclass.

The event will be from 2-4pm in Houston Hall at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, who are our gracious hosts for the Institute.

FREE to Boston Wagner Society members and Students with valid ID.

$20 to all others, payable in advance on our website, or at the door.

Boston Wagner Institute will announce more events soon, so join the Boston Wagner Society to take advantage of unlimited free access to all BWI and BWS events!

Internationally-recognized Wagnerian Ben Heppner will work with the young singers of the Boston Wagner Institute.

The event will be from 2-4pm in Houston Hall at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, who are our gracious hosts for the Institute.

FREE to Boston Wagner Society members and Students with valid ID.

$20 to all others, payable in advance on our website, or at the door.

Boston Wagner Institute will announce more events soon, so join the Boston Wagner Society to take advantage of unlimited free access to all BWI and BWS events!

In collaboration with Boston Opera On Tap, BWS and BWI shall present music, merriment, & merlot with young dramatic voices and budding Wagnerian singers from around the world in your favorite local pub! This evening is a program of singers involved with Boston Wagner Institute, whether as BWI students, staff, or volunteers of BWS.

Join us with an ale and an aria!

$12 in advance. $16 at the door.
Enter the code Valhalla for $10 tickets!

Doors are at 5:30pm. Showtime is 6pm.

Dinner and drinks are available at all tables.

(NO REFUNDS OR EXCHANGES)

More info and tickets can be purchased here!

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Introduced by Jane Eaglen, an all-Wagner program featuring excerpts from Die Walküre, Tannhaüser, and art songs including his Wesendonck Lieder!

FREE to all! No ticket required.

Featuring artists:

Brett Hodgdon, piano

Mark Tempesta, tenor

Tara Jamshidian, soprano

Allyson Bennett, soprano

Katerina Skafidas, soprano

Calandra Damouras, soprano

Alexandra Wiebe, soprano

Join us as we experience the lovely Wagnerian mezzo-soprano, Renée Tatum in recital at Boston Public Library’s Rabb Hall. She has been up and coming for a long time, now a dazzling star in the opera world, and is bringing in the next generation of Wagnerian singers. She will also have a brief Q&A with our president, Jane Eaglen.

All are welcome, and the concert is FREE to attend regardless of membership.

Did we mention… Renée Tatum… in concert… for FREE??

Save the date!

Join us as we hear our President Jane Eaglen coach young dramatic singers on Wagnerian scenes.

This workshop will be streamed LIVE and available for in-person guests via RSVP ONLY. REGISTER HERE!

Registration deadline: June 16

NEC’s COVID security and safety protocols require registration of all guests for this event, with proof of vaccination by JUNE 15. No day-of entry, unless with valid NEC student, faculty, or alumni ID.

This event is free, we just kindly ask for donations for future educational programming for young Wagnerians!

For more info on BWI programming or audition information for future programs, email bwi@bostonwagnersociety.org for updates.

Opera Maine presents in Boston in anticipation of their July 2022 performance of The Flying Dutchman!

Artistic Director Dona D. Vaughn, Maestro Israel Gursky, set designer German Cardenas-Alaminos, and costume designer Millie Hiibel will share some of their plans for Maine’s first presentation of a Wagner opera, The Flying Dutchman. Soprano Maureen Brabec, who covers the role of Senta will perform, with Noriko Yasuda at the piano.

This event is free and open to all and will be live-streamed on our Boston Wagner Facebook.
It can also be viewed later on-demand via the same link.

The Commonwealth Salon is accessible from the Boylston St. entrance of the Boston Public Library.

Online concert dedicated to Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

With soprano Jenna Rae and pianist Hugh Keelan.

Excerpts of Brūnnhilde, including the Immolation Scene.

Tickets $12