SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2026 | 7 PM
CARY HALL | LEXINGTON, MA
Join us in celebrating the culmination of the American Wagner Festival students’ hard work this summer!
This will be an all-Wagner concert featuring each student performing memorized, fully-staged Wagner scenes, directed by Jane Eaglen. Each scene is accompanied by the magnificent American Wagner Festival Orchestra, directed by Maestro Jonathan McPhee.
FREE to Boston Wagner Society members and students with ID.
$25 general admission.
Support for this festival was provided by a grant from the Community Endowment of Lexington, an endowed fund of the Foundation for MetroWest.
The Community Endowment of Lexington enhances the quality of life for Lexington citizens. CEL, an endowed fund of the Foundation for MetroWest, awards grants to nonprofits and town agencies working in the areas of health and human services, arts and culture, the environment, and community building; provides ways for donors to give back and leave a legacy; and encourages innovative and collaborative solutions to issues facing Lexington, MA. For more information, visit www.lexingtonendowment.org.
American Wagner Festival combines the forces of soprano and director, Jane Eaglen, and conductor Jonathan McPhee; together, they present an education-forward program for singers with the potential to sing Wagner. With McPhee's American Wagner Festival Orchestra, and Eaglen's vocal and dramatic training, singers will perform semi-staged Wagnerian scenes with a full orchestra. Hosted in Lexington, Massachusetts, with all rehearsals, coachings, classes, and performances held in town.
With a career spanning the roles of Wagner’s heroines in opera houses around the world, Ms. Eaglen has first-hand knowledge of what it takes to build vocal stamina and maintain dramatic interest to fill the expansive music and staging of this style. Ms. Eaglen is committed to passing on the benefit of her extensive experience to the Wagner singers of the future.