Recital:

Kathryn Harries (soprano), Michael Pollock (piano)

Lectures:

The Operas of Benjamin Britten: Sir Peter Pears
Singers of Bayreuth: Norman White
Wagnerism in France: Prof Hugh MacDonald (University of Glasgow)
Wagner and the Dance: Prof Raymond Furness (University of St Andrews)

Liszt Centenary Recital:

Sally Scott-Jupp (soprano), Ronald Stevenson (piano)

Lectures:

Wagner's Politics and Wagner's Music: Dr Anthony Arblaster (University of Sheffield)
Wagner Literature and Wagner Research: Dr John Deathridge (University of Cambridge)

Study Weekend:

Das Rheingold (Whithorn, Galloway)

Study Day:

Der fliegende Holländer, with director John Cox

Recital:

Suzanne McLaren (soprano)

Lectures:

The Origins of 'The Flying Dutchman': Prof Anthony Stanforth (University of Edinburgh)
Wagner as Music: Bryan Magee
Wagner and British Music: Malcolm MacDonald

Lectures:

Berlioz, Liszt and Wagner: reappraisals of the 'New German School': Derek Watson
Wagner and Conducting: Neil Mackay

Study Weekend:

Die Walküre (University of St Andrews)

Recitals:

Annabelle Cheetham (mezzo-soprano)
An Evening with Alberto Remedios

Lectures:

Puccini the Wagnerian: Rodney Milnes
The Shakespearian Wagner: Margaret Inwood

Recitals:

Denise Mulholland (soprano), Derek Archer (baritone)
An Evening with Pauline Tinsley

Study Weekend:

Siegfried (University of Stirling)

Lectures:

Wagner and Liszt: the Transcriptions: Dr Kenneth Hamilton (University of Birmingham)
Elgar and Wagner: Prof Ian Parrott (University of Aberystwyth)
Ludwig, a Royal Mystery: Trevor Ransley

Recital:

Barbara Brodie (soprano)

Study Weekend:

Götterdämmerung

Recital:

Margaret Archibald (soprano)

Study Weekend:

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Newbattle Abbey)

Lectures:

Wagner and the Italian Opera: Prof David Kimbell (University of Edinburgh)
Wotan's Spear: Malcolm Fox (University of Adelaide)

Lecture:

Hans Richter Christopher Fifield

Study Days:

Tristan und Isolde; Lohengrin

Lectures:

Wagner and Pfitzner: Dr John Williamson (University of Liverpool)
The Music of Siegfried Wagner: Will Scott

Study Weekend:

The Music of Tristan (Scottish Opera, Glasgow)

Study Day:

Das Liebesverbot
An Afternoon with Anne Evans and Jeffrey Lawton

Recital:

Kenneth Hamilton (piano)

Study Weekend:

Parsifal (University of Stirling)

Lectures:

On Singing and Interpretation: John Mitchinson
Wagner and Russia: Dr Stuart Campbell (University of Glasgow)

Study Day:

Wagner's Version of Iphigenie in Aulis

Study Weekends:

Rienzi (Newbattle Abbey)
Der fliegende Holländer (Newbattle Abbey)

Lectures:

Images of Wagner in the Third Reich: Dr Erik Levi (University of London)
Love in Wagner: Dr Michael Tanner (University of Cambridge)
Exploring the lesser-known Wagner: Barry Millington

Lectures:

Lohengrin: Alexander Crowe (Royal Northern College of Music)
The Staging of  Die Meistersinger: Patrick Carnegy
The Geography of the Ring: Malcolm Fox (University of Adelaide)

Study Weekends:

Tannhäuser (College of Education, Dundee)
Lohengrin (Newbattle Abbey)

Other events:

An Afternoon with Mike Ashman (director of the Norwegian National Opera Ring)
Piano recital by Colin Kingsley
Christmas Party talk by James MacMillan

Recital:

Linda Finnie (mezzo-soprano)

Lectures:

Wagner in Russia: Dr Rosamund Bartlett (University of Manchester)
Wolfgang Wagner's Bayreuth: Penelope Turing
Wagner and Redemption: Dr Michael Tanner (University of Cambridge)

Study Weekend:

Das Rheingold (Newbattle Abbey)

Other events:

'Tristan' Congress (Theatre Royal, Glasgow)
Tony Palmer introducing his film Parsifal
Christmas Party talk by Gian Carlo Menotti

Lectures:

Wagner and Mallarmé: Dr Mary Breatnach (University of Edinbugh)
Wagner and Delius: Derek Watson
Wagner and Bruckner: Stephen Johnson
Wagner and Scriabin: Dr Rosamund Bartlett (University of Manchester)

Study Weekend:

Die Walküre (Newbattle Abbey)

Christmas Party:

Talk by Sir Brian McMaster CBE

Lectures:

Conducting Wagner: Sir Richard Armstrong
The Divided Soul: Dr John Warrack
Wagner and Film: Graeme Arnott
Wagner and Philosophy: Brian Magee

Study Courses:

Parsifal (Newbattle Abbey)
Das Rheingold (Newbattle Abbey)

Lectures:

Wagner, Coins and History: Nick Holmes (National Museums of Scotland)
Samuel Beckett and Wagner: John Calder
'Das ist kein Mann!' - problems with virility in Siegfried: Barry Millington

Study Course:

Tonality in Act 1 of Die Walküre: Ian Beresford Gleaves

Other Events:

An Evening with Raimund Herincx
A Conversation with Donald Runnicles
Christmas Party talk by Linda Esther Gray

Lectures:

Fifty Years of Bayreuth Festivals: Penelope Turing
Voicing Mathilde: Money and the Muse: Prof Chris Walton (University of Pretoria)
Hans Sachs - the problem of the final address: Dr Ian Robertson

Study Weekend:

Siegfried (Newbattle Abbey)

Other Events:

An Evening with Matthew Best
Christmas Party talk by Tim Alberry and Hildegard Bechtler

Lectures:

Tonality in the Ring: Derek Watson
Structural Parallels between Das Rheingold and Götterdämmerung: Graeme Arnott
Six talks by members of the Scottish Opera Ring company: Piers Maxim, Peter Sidhom, Graham Sanders, Elizabeth Byrne, Peter Savidge, Alasdair Eliot

Other events:

Festival Receptions for International Wagner Societies during Scottish Opera's Ring cycles
Christmas Party talk by Pauline Tinsley
Recital to celebrate Ronald Stevenson's 75th Birthday Jonathon Scott (organ), Phillida Bannister (contralto) and Christopher Ovenden (tenor)

Study Course:

Götterdämmerung (University of Stirling)

Lectures:

Schopenhauer and Wagner: Dr Kenneth Hutton
Wagner, Schoenberg and the Dissolution of Tonality: Dr Ian Robertson
What Tristan means to us: Prof Roger Scruton
Wagner and the Greeks: Lewis Morgan-Klein
Mathilde Wesendonck: the Controlling Muse: Professor Chris Walton (University of Pretoria)
The Ring at Manaus: Aidan Lang

Study Weekend:

Die Feen and Das Liebesverbot  (University of Stirling)

Other events:

Scottish Opera: Past Present and Future: Christopher Barron, Chief Executive. Scottish Opera
Christmas Party talk 'Early Bayreuth Singers' by Sandy Matheson (McAlister Matheson Music)

Recital:

Phillida Bannister (mezzo-soprano), Derek Watson (piano) [Schubert, Strauss, Wagner]

Lectures:

Wagner and Brass: John Wallace (Principal, Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama)
The Fateful potion in Tristan: Aphrodisiac or Placebo: Dr Ian Robertson
Richard Wagner and his Native City of Leipzig: Derek Watson
'The Voice Doctor': Prof Arnold Maran FRCS

Study Weekend:

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg  (The College, Isle of Cumbrae)

Recital: 

Shuna Scott-Sendall (soprano), Wai Sum Chong (piano) [Debussy, Wagner, Gershwin]

Other events:

An Evening with Sir Donald McIntyre [including a performance of the two Wotan/Erda scenes from the Ring with Phillida Banister as Erda]
Richard Wagner and the Dresden Semperoper: an audio-visual presentation
Jane Eaglen in Coversation

Lectures:

Wagner and Houston Stewart Chamberlain:  Dr Roger Allen (University of Oxford)
Nietzsche's Ideas of History and the Ring: Prof Simon Williams (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Richard Strauss and Wagner: Michael Kennedy
Richard Wagner and the 'Satire of Art': Scottish Wagnerism, George Bernard Shaw, and the Religon/Science Dialectic: Gulliver Ralston

Study Weekend:

Lohengrin (Carberry Tower)

Other Events:

Wagner and Venice: an audio-visual presentation: Derek Watson

Lectures:

Wagner and Mallarmé: Music and Poetic Language: Prof Heath Lees (University of Auckland)
Wagner and Weimar: Derek Watson
Wagner and Elgar: Ian Beresford Gleaves
Richard Wagner's Zurich: Prof Chris Walton (University of Pretoria)

Study Weekend:

Rienzi (Carberry Tower)

Lectures:

Siegfried's Amnesia - an attempt at an explanation: Dr Ian Robertson
Die Walküre - a psychotherapist's perspective: Dr Robin Hobbes

Study Weekend:

Tristan und Isolde (University of Stirling)

Other Events:

An Evening with Keith Warner
A talk by sculptor Alexander Stoddart on the influence of Schopenhauer and Wagner on his work
An Evening with Prof John Deathridge (Imperial College, University of London)
A Recital by postgraduate singing students from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama
An Evening with Donald Macleod (BBC Radio 3)

Lectures:

Wagner and the revolutions of 1830 and 1848: Roderick Swanston
Richard Wagner and the Faeries - an introduction to 'Die Feen': Derek Watson
The Artistry of David Ward: Will Scott
Das Rheingold on Record: Hilary Finch

Study Weekend:

Der fliegende Holländer (University of Stirling)

Other Events: