WAGNER SOCIETY IN NSW
EVENTS IN 2026

COMING EVENTS

Starting times and venues may vary so please check this webpage closer to the dates.

	FEBRUARY
Wednesday 4 February via zoom	12.00pm: Dr Thomas Launius talks about the origins of the Grail legends via zoom Read more
Sunday 8 February Goethe Institut	12.00pm: DVD – Inbrunst Im Herzen: Great arias and scenes from Mozart, Wagner and Strauss 2.00pm: Talk by mezzo-soprano Deborah Humble
	MARCH
Sunday 1 March Goethe Institut	12.00pm: DVD – Tony Palmer’s TV classic Wagner Parts 1, 2 & 3
Sunday 29 March Goethe Institut	12.00pm: DVD – Tony Palmer’s Wagner Part 4 2.00pm: Talk by conductor Toby Wong about the Shaumet Das Rheingold
	APRIL
Sunday 19 April Goethe Institut	1.00pm: AGM 2.00pm: Talk TBA
Wednesday 22 April via zoom	12.00pm: Talk by F. Peter Phillips, President of the Wagner Society of New York via zoom
	MAY
Wednesday 6 May via zoom	12.00pm: Talk by Belgian Bass Tijl Faveyts via zoom
Sunday 17 May St Columba	2.00pm: Wagner’s Birthday concert
	JUNE
Sunday 21 June Goethe Institut	12.00pm: DVD – Tony Palmer’s Wagner Part 5 2.00pm: Talk by Chris Sorrell about early Wagner recordings
	JULY
Sunday 19 July Goethe Institut	12.00pm: DVD – Tony Palmer’s Wagner Part 6 2.00pm: Talk by TBA
	AUGUST
Sunday 16 August Goethe Institut	12.00pm: DVD – TBA 2.00pm: Talk by conductor Sarah Penicka-Smith
	SEPTEMBER
Sunday 13 September Goethe Institut	12.00pm: DVD – TBA 2.00pm: Talk by Associate Professor Ross Anderson on his book The Appian Way
	OCTOBER
Sunday 11 October Goethe Institut	12.00pm: DVD – TBA 2.00pm: Talk by Mike Day about Wagner’s painter contemporaries
	NOVEMBER
Saturday 21 November Goethe Institut	10.30 am – 4.00pm: WSNSW Symposium on Götterdämmerung
	DECEMBER
Sunday 6 December St Columba	2.00pm: Christmas concert and party

Venues:

Goethe Institut
Event Hall (upstairs)
90 Ocean Street (cnr Jersey Road)
Woollahra NSW

St Columba Community Centre
53A Ocean Street (cnr Forth Street)
Woollahra NSW