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.
| AUGUST | |
| Sunday 2 August St Columba Community Centre | 2.00pm: Love, Life 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 pianist Bradley Gilchrist Read more GET TICKETS HERE |
| 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 |
| SEPTEMBER | |
| Sunday 13 September Goethe Institut | 12.00 noon: DVD – Tony Palmer’s Wagner Part 5 2.00pm: Talk by Associate Professor Ross Anderson on his book The Appian Way |
| OCTOBER | |
| Sunday 11 October St Columba Community Centre | 2.00pm: Concert with mezzo-soprano Deborah Humble and Sharolyn Kimmorley at the piano |
| NOVEMBER | |
| Saturday 21 November Goethe Institut | 10.30am – 4.00pm: WSNSW Symposium on Götterdämmerung |
| 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 |
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