WAGNER SOCIETY IN NSW
EVENTS IN 2026
COMING EVENTS
Starting times and venues may vary so please check this webpage closer to the dates.
Members are advised of changes via e-news.
| OCTOBER | |
| Sunday 11 October St Columba Community Centre | 2.00pm: L’invitation au voyage – a recital by mezzo-soprano Deborah Humble & Associate Artist Sharolyn Kimmorley AM – with works by Brahms, Schumann, Wagner, de Falla, Guastavino, Dvorak & Bernstein Read more |
| Wednesday 28 October via zoom | 7.00pm [AEDT]: Dr Thomas Launius presents Part 3 of his talk on Parsifal: Language, Sound and the Aesthetic Archaic Register – via zoom Read more |
| NOVEMBER | |
| Saturday 21 November Goethe Institut | 10.30am – 4.00pm: WSNSW Symposium on Götterdämmerung with Maestro Simone Young AM, Daniel Linton-France, Dr David Larkin, Professor Michael Ewans, Dr Antony Ernst & Alexander Voltz |
| DECEMBER | |
| Sunday 13 December St Columba Community Centre | 2.00pm: Christmas concert and party |
PAST EVENTS
| Wednesday 4 February via zoom | 7.00pm: Dr Thomas Launius’ talk – Parsifal: The Mythological Sources of the Masterpiece – via zoom Read more |
| Sunday 8 February Goethe Institut | 12.00 noon: DVD – Inbrunst Im Herzen: Great arias and scenes from Mozart, Wagner and Strauss 2.00pm: Talk by mezzo-soprano Deborah Humble – how to learn an opera score Read more |
| Sunday 1 March Goethe Institut | 12.00 noon: DVD – Tony Palmer’s TV classic Wagner – Part 1 [Episodes 1 & 2] 2.00pm: Talk by Mike Day – Wagner’s painter contemporaries Read more |
| Sunday 29 March Willoughby Uniting Church | 2.00pm: Talk by conductor Toby Wong – the Shaumet Music Das Rheingold Read more |
| Sunday 19 April Goethe Institut | 1.00pm: AGM 2.00pm: Talk by Dr Antony Ernst – Die Meistersinger von Nürnbergis not the comedy you think it is Read more |
| Wednesday 22 April via zoom | 12.00 noon: Talk by F. Peter Phillips, President of the Wagner Society of New York – on the book Performing Wagner: A Singer’s Perspective on the Major Tenor Roles which he co-authored with American Heldentenor Stephen Gould – via zoom Read more |
| Wednesday 6 May via zoom | 6.00pm: Talk by Belgian Bass Tijl Faveyts on his life with singing Wagner – via zoom Read more |
| Sunday 17 May Mosman Art Gallery | 2.00pm: Wagner’s Birthday concert, with heldenbaritone Warwick Fyfe & soprano Lee Abrahmsen, and Glenn Amer at the piano Read more |
| Wednesday 17 June via zoom | 7.00pm: Dr Thomas Launius’ talk on Parsifal continued – How Wagner Developed His Own Mythic Storyline – via zoom Read more |
| Sunday 21 June Goethe Institut | 12.00p noon: DVD – Tony Palmer’s Wagner Part 2 2.00pm: Presentation by Dr Chris Sorrell – Early Wagner recordings on Cylinder and Disk Read more |
| Thursday 9 July via zoom | 7.00pm: Christopher Cook’s talk – Tristan und Isolde – Whose Love Story? – via zoom Read more |
| Sunday 19 July Goethe Institut | 12.00 noon: DVD – Tony Palmer’s Wagner Part 3 2.00pm: Talk by Professor Peter Roennfeldt on Wagner and Schumann – Parallels and Mutual Influences Read more |
| Sunday 2 August St Columba Community Centre | 2.00pm: Life, Love and Opera – with sopranos Jessica Harper, Laura Scandizzo, Eleanor Greenwood and Jane Ede, tenors Brad Cooper and Kent McIntosh, baritones Eugene Raggio and Michael Lampard, and accompanist Bradley Gilchrist Read more |
| Sunday 16 August Goethe Institut | 12.00 noon: DVD – Tony Palmer’s Wagner Part 4 2.00pm: Talk by conductor Sarah Penicka-Smith – The Future of Opera and what Wagner has to do with it Read more |
| Sunday 13 September Goethe Institut | 12.00 noon: DVD – Tony Palmer’s Wagner Part 5 (final) 2.00pm: Talk by Associate Professor Ross Anderson on Wagner Anew: Adolphe Appia & the Beginnings of Modern Scenography Read more |
Venues:
Goethe Institut
Event Hall (upstairs)
90 Ocean Street (cnr Jersey Road)
Woollahra NSW
Mosman Art Gallery
1 Art Gallery Way
Mosman NSW
Willoughby Uniting Church
10-12 Clanwilliam Street
North Willoughby NSW
St Columba Community Centre
53A Ocean Street (cnr Forth Street)
Woollahra NSW