SUNDAY 19 APRIL 2026

AGM & PRESENTATION BY DR ANTONY ERNST
ON ‘DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG’

1.00pm
Annual General Meeting

2.00pm
Presentation by Dr Antony Ernst on ‘Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg’

Venue:
The Goethe Institut
90 Ocean Street (cnr Jersey Road)
Woollahra NSW

Tickets:
$35 members, $45 non-members, $15 full-time students

ABOUT DR ANTONY ERNST

Dr Antony Ernst is a director, dramaturg, lecturer and arts administrator who has worked with companies and universities in Australia, New Zealand, Europe and America. He started as a dramaturg with Opera Australia, has worked as a house director in Dresden, Düsseldorf and Rome, has completed a doctorate and directed Opera Australia’s new production of Salome (2003). More recently, Antony was Manager of Artistic Planning for the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra in France for 6 years, and between 2017 and 2019 was Director of the Royal Danish Orchestra in Copenhagen. He was the Executive Director of the Chamber Orchestra of Lausanne, Switzerland until May 2024.

He is one of our most popular presenters. Members may be interested in Antony’s presentations since 1995:

• 2024 – a speaker in the Die Walküre Symposium – Law and Power in Die Walküre
• 2019 – a seminar on Parsifal 
• 2018 – a seminar on Tristan und Isolde 
• 2017 – a seminar on Lohengrin
• 2016– a seminar on Bach to the Future: Wagner’s Roots and the German Nation 
• 2014 – a talk on Beyond the twilight of the gods: Wagner’s musical legacy 
• 2013 – a workshop on Forging Meaning out of Music: Heritage, Complexity and Vision of the Ring, introduced by Lyndon Terracini, Artistic Director of Opera Australia
• 2009 – a talk on From Malediction to Valediction – curses and dramatic resolution in Wagner
• 2007– a talk on Tristan und Isolde – Wagner, the Appian Way, and the General Theory of Relativity.
• 2005 – an interview with Jessica Pratt 
• 2004 – a survey of Ring Cycle production styles
• 2003: 
  • a talk on Parsifal – a number of possible interpretations, including Kundry’s Jewish past as Herodias, the sin of mixed blood (Kundry’s with Parsifal’s pure Aryan), Titurel as God the Father (and his Nietzschean death), Amfortas as Christ, the Redeemer redeemed.
  • a talk on Historical and then interpretational aspects of Meistersinger, as part of the Joint Art Gallery of NSW and Wagner Society Meistersinger Seminar
• 2002:
  • a talk on Die Feen and Das Liebesverbot 
  • a talk on Rienzi 
• 1998: 
  • a lecture on ‘Das Rheingold and Wagner the man’a Lecture on ‘Die Walküre and Wagner’s musical sources’a Lecture on ‘Siegfried and Wagnerian voices – why are they different?’
  • a lecture on ‘Götterdämmerung and some production difficulties in staging the Ring’

• 1997:
  • a talk on The beginning of the Endless Melody – the first sixty years of performance of Tristan und Isolde
  • a speaker in the Tannhäuser Seminar co-hosted by the AGNSW and the Wagner Society covering opera, history and art. 
• 1996 – a speaker in the Seminar on Die Walküre
• 1995 – a speaker in the Seminar on Das Rheingold