OUR NEXT EVENT - ON SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2024
'LOLA MONTEZ - FROM SPAIN TO SYDNEY VIA SAXONY'
BY DR GEOFFREY SEIDEL
'LOLA MONTEZ - FROM SPAIN TO SYDNEY VIA SAXONY'
BY DR GEOFFREY SEIDEL
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Our members are lovers of the music and operas of Richard Wagner and also support Wagnerian productions in Australia and emerging Wagnerian performers from NSW.
Celebration of the Wagner Society NSW's 40th anniversary |
The Wagner Society NSW's 40th anniversary |
The Bicentenary of Wagner’s birth |
Celebration of the Wagner Society NSW's 20th Anniversary |
The Wagner Society in NSW established as an unincorporated association. |
9.30am: Seminar on Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg held in the Goethe Insitut
Speakers:
- Dennis Hennig, musician-academic (Conservatorium of Music): Analysis of the opera
- Dr Ken Moulden (Department of Germanic Studies, Sydney University): Analysis of the libretto
- Brian Taylor (Department of Germanic Studies, Sydney University): Historical mastersingers
- Sir Charles Mackerras: The opera’s demands on a musician and how he would be approaching conducting the opera.