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.
Updated 1 February 2026
| FEBRUARY | |
| Wednesday 4 February via zoom | CHANGED TIME 7.00pm: Dr Thomas Launius talks about 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 on how to learn an opera Read more |
| MARCH | |
| Sunday 1 March Goethe Institut | 12.00 noon: DVD – Tony Palmer’s TV classic Wagner – Episodes 1 & 2 2.00pm: Talk by Mike Day about Wagner’s painter contemporaries Read more |
| Sunday 29 March Willoughby Uniting Church | 12.00 noon: DVD – Tony Palmer’s Wagner Part 3 2.00pm: Talk by conductor Toby Wong about the Shaumet Das Rheingold Read more |
| APRIL | |
| Sunday 19 April Goethe Institut | 1.00pm: AGM 2.00pm: Talk by TBA |
| Wednesday 22 April via zoom | 12.00 noon: Talk by F. Peter Phillips, President of the Wagner Society of New York – via zoom |
| MAY | |
| Wednesday 6 May via zoom | 12.00 noon: Talk by Belgian Bass Tijl Faveyts – via zoom |
| Sunday 17 May Mosman Art Gallery | 2.00pm: Wagner’s Birthday concert, with heldenbaritone Warwick Fyfe & soprano Lee Abrahmsen, and Glen Amer at the piano |
| JUNE | |
| Sunday 21 June Goethe Institut | 12.00p noon: DVD – Tony Palmer’s Wagner Part 4 2.00pm: Talk by Chris Sorrell about early Wagner recordings |
| JULY | |
| Sunday 19 July Goethe Institut | 12.00 noon: DVD – Tony Palmer’s Wagner Part 5 2.00pm: Talk by TBA |
| AUGUST | |
| Sunday 16 August Goethe Institut | 12.00 noon: DVD – Tony Palmer’s Wagner Part 6 2.00pm: Talk by conductor Sarah Penicka-Smith |
| SEPTEMBER | |
| Sunday 13 September Goethe Institut | 12.00 noon: DVD – TBA 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 |
| 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 |
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