Our zooms
27/09/2020: Tabatha McFadyen, director of both opera & theatre, talks about singing and directing
18/10/2020: Dr David Larkin – senior lecturer in musicology at the SydneyConservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, specialising innineteenth-century music – spoke about ‘Beyond the opera house: CS Lewis & Wagner reception in Edwardian Britain’
22/11/2020: Speak, Memory! Baritone Warwick Fyfe talks about his first Wotan… amongst other things
28/01/2021: British dramatic soprano Susan Bullock CBE in conversation from London with Dr Robert Mitchell
11/02/2021: American dramatic soprano Lise Lindstrom in conversation with Dr Robert Mitchell.
21/03/2021: Professor Heath Lees talked to us from New Zealand about ‘Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music’ by Alex Ross
6/06/2021: American music critic & author Alex Ross in conversation with Dr David Larkin about Alex’s book ‘Wagnerism, Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music’
8/08/2021: Stephen Mould [a Sydney-based conductor, opera, teacher & writer] on his book ‘Curating Opera – reinventing the past through museums of opera and art’
12/09/2021: Soprano Anna-Louise Cole who later sang Brünnhilde in the 2023 Brisbane Ring, Third Cycle, in conversation with Dr Robert Mitchell
10/10/2021: Dr Rachel Orzeck [Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne] on France’s Wagner: 1840s to WWI
19/01/2022: Documentary film makers Wayne Groom & Dr Carolyn Bilsborow talked to us from Adelaide about and showed excerpts from their latest production ‘Marjorie Lawrence: The World at her Feet’
2/03/2022: BBC broadcaster Christopher Cook, via zoom – ‘Amfortas! Die Wunde … Two Wounded Disciples’
4/05/2022: Erica Miner [Award winning author, scriptwriter, lecturer and journalist] talked to us from Seattle about Wagner and Berlioz
29/01/2023: Suzanne Chaundy, Director, Melbourne Opera Ring, in conversation live from Melbourne with Esteban Insausti
29/01/2023: Andrew Bailey, Designer, Melbourne Opera Ring, in conversation live from Melbourne with Esteban Insausti
21/02/2024: German soprano Alexandra Steiner in conversation from Germany with Ross Whitelaw
20/03/2024: British Broadcaster Christopher Cook in conversation with Ross Whitelaw via zoom about ‘Wagner & Britain’
16/06/2024: Alex Ross [American music critic and author] from Los Angeles about Joyce & Wagner on Bloomsday
26/06/2024: Dr John Mastrogiovanni, Chairman of the Wagner Society of Southern California, on Parsifal: The Will and Redemption, Part 1
19/01/2025: Director of Regents Opera Ben Woodward in conversation on the slimmed down Regents Opera Ring Cycle
29/01/2025: Opera & theatre director Suzanne Chaundy in conversation about the upcoming production of Melbourne Opera’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
12/02/2025: Dr John Mastrogiovanni, Chairman of the Wagner Society of Southern California, on Parsifal: The Will and Redemption, Part 2
12/03/2025: German tenor Mirko Roschkowski in conversation with Ross Whitelaw about his career
7/05/2025: Mezzo-soprano Margaret Plummer in conversation with Ross Whitelaw
27/09/2020: Tabatha McFadyen, director of both opera & theatre, talks about singing and directing
18/10/2020: Dr David Larkin – senior lecturer in musicology at the SydneyConservatorium of Music, University of Sydney, specialising innineteenth-century music – spoke about ‘Beyond the opera house: CS Lewis & Wagner reception in Edwardian Britain’
22/11/2020: Speak, Memory! Baritone Warwick Fyfe talks about his first Wotan… amongst other things
28/01/2021: British dramatic soprano Susan Bullock CBE in conversation from London with Dr Robert Mitchell
11/02/2021: American dramatic soprano Lise Lindstrom in conversation with Dr Robert Mitchell.
21/03/2021: Professor Heath Lees talked to us from New Zealand about ‘Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music’ by Alex Ross
6/06/2021: American music critic & author Alex Ross in conversation with Dr David Larkin about Alex’s book ‘Wagnerism, Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music’
8/08/2021: Stephen Mould [a Sydney-based conductor, opera, teacher & writer] on his book ‘Curating Opera – reinventing the past through museums of opera and art’
12/09/2021: Soprano Anna-Louise Cole who later sang Brünnhilde in the 2023 Brisbane Ring, Third Cycle, in conversation with Dr Robert Mitchell
10/10/2021: Dr Rachel Orzeck [Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne] on France’s Wagner: 1840s to WWI
19/01/2022: Documentary film makers Wayne Groom & Dr Carolyn Bilsborow talked to us from Adelaide about and showed excerpts from their latest production ‘Marjorie Lawrence: The World at her Feet’
2/03/2022: BBC broadcaster Christopher Cook, via zoom – ‘Amfortas! Die Wunde … Two Wounded Disciples’
4/05/2022: Erica Miner [Award winning author, scriptwriter, lecturer and journalist] talked to us from Seattle about Wagner and Berlioz
29/01/2023: Suzanne Chaundy, Director, Melbourne Opera Ring, in conversation live from Melbourne with Esteban Insausti
29/01/2023: Andrew Bailey, Designer, Melbourne Opera Ring, in conversation live from Melbourne with Esteban Insausti
21/02/2024: German soprano Alexandra Steiner in conversation from Germany with Ross Whitelaw
20/03/2024: British Broadcaster Christopher Cook in conversation with Ross Whitelaw via zoom about ‘Wagner & Britain’
16/06/2024: Alex Ross [American music critic and author] from Los Angeles about Joyce & Wagner on Bloomsday
26/06/2024: Dr John Mastrogiovanni, Chairman of the Wagner Society of Southern California, on Parsifal: The Will and Redemption, Part 1
19/01/2025: Director of Regents Opera Ben Woodward in conversation on the slimmed down Regents Opera Ring Cycle
29/01/2025: Opera & theatre director Suzanne Chaundy in conversation about the upcoming production of Melbourne Opera’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
12/02/2025: Dr John Mastrogiovanni, Chairman of the Wagner Society of Southern California, on Parsifal: The Will and Redemption, Part 2
12/03/2025: German tenor Mirko Roschkowski in conversation with Ross Whitelaw about his career
7/05/2025: Mezzo-soprano Margaret Plummer in conversation with Ross Whitelaw
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