Our next event is: In conversation with Maestro Anthony Negus [Conductor & Musical Director for Melbourne Opera's Ring Cycle] & his wife Carmen Jakobi [chief German language coach for the Ring]
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IT'S MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL TIME! We would like to encourage members to renew their membership subscriptions for 2023, DUE BEFORE 31st March 2023. 2023 is an exciting year in Australia with two full Ring Cycles and a concert performance of Das Rheingold by the SSO, as well performances of Tannhäuser by OA in Melbourne and excerpts from Die Walküre in Perth (WASO). |
| 21 January | 2pm: An Afternoon with Australian tenor Samuel Sakker |
Our members are lovers of the music and operas of Richard Wagner, and also support the training of young Wagnerian or potential Wagnerian performers from NSW.
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.