Fall 2026 Opera Course

You're Invited to Ten Tuesday Afternoon Classes On Operas That Will Be Performed During The 2026-2027 Season!

Enhance your enjoyment of operas that will be performed during the 2026-2027 opera season by signing up for the fall 2026 opera appreciation course offered by Margie Satinsky, President, Triangle Wagner Society. We'll focus on operas by different composers and hear directly from three guests who are important in today's opera world: Francesca Zambello, Artistic Director of Washington National Opera; Will Berger of the Metropolitan Opera; and Eric Mitchko, General Director of NC Opera.

What's so special about the course? You get more for your money! All class participants receive background information in advance of each class, including links to the music we will hear and suggested reading and listening. All classes are recorded. If you miss a class or would like to listen again, you can do it at your convenience.

The classes are on Tuesday afternoons, 1:30 -3:00 p.m. Eastern time. The first class is September 8, 2026, and the last class is November 10, 2026.

Margie Satinsky, Instructor

Margie has been an opera devotee since she was nine years old. As she later discovered, her summer camp songs were written to operatic arias. Since 2012, she has taught opera appreciation courses at OLLI at Duke and independently, focusing on highlights of the current opera season; Russian opera; different voice types; women in the operas of Mozart, Verdi, and Wagner; black singers at the Metropolitan Opera, and family relationships in opera. Margie is one of the founders and long-time President of Triangle Wagner Society. Her love for Wagner's music has been a life-changing experience. Margie is a native of Philadelphia. She is a graduate of Brown University (B.A. in European History) and University of Pennsylvania (M.A. in Political Science and M.B.A. from the Wharton School). As President of Satinsky Consulting, LLC, she provides business consulting to physicians in private practice. She has taught yoga for more than 20 years, is an avid hiker, and the mother of teacup poodle Danny Boy, who loves all opera except Act III of Tristan und Isolde!