Saturday 5 February Wentworth Hotel Sydney | 7.30pm for 8pm: Black tie dinner in honour of Leonie Rysanek with Honorary Life membership bestowed on Miss Rysanek. |
Sunday 20 February Concordia Club Stanmore | Recording of The Flying Dutchman, with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the title role |
Tuesday The Print Room, | 7.30pm: General Meeting |
Sunday Concordia Club Stanmore | 2pm: Recording of Das Rheingold |
Friday Concordia Club Stanmore | 1.30pm: Recording of Bach’s St Mathew Passion, with Fischer-Dieskau and Peter Pears, conductor Klemperer |
Sunday Concordia Club Stanmore | 1.30pm: Recording of Die Walküre (Solti) |
Monday The Print Room | Talk by Connell Byrne – an Australian tenor who has made his singing career in Europe and is returning for a season with the Tasmanian Opera Company – on the challenges facing a tenor in Wagnerian roles |
Friday | – Annual General Meeting – Annual ‘Wagner’s Birthday’ Dinner Guest of Honour: Raymond Myers, an Australian baritone |
Sunday Concordia Club | 1.30pm: Recording of Siegfried |
Thursday 16 June The Print Room | 6pm: Reception for Ken Neate, an Australian Wagnerian tenor, who has had a long career in Germany, has sung at Bayreuth and is Professor of Voice at the Richard Strauss Conservatorium of Music, Munich. He is returning to Australia to judge the Metropolitan Opera Auditions. He spoke about the ‘Wagner Voice’. |
Sunday Concordia Club | 1.30pm: Recording of Götterdämmerung |
Friday Concordia Club | 6.30pm: Professor Michael Ewans’ lecture on ‘Die Walküre– a new interpretation (not really)’ |
Sunday Concordia Club | 1.30pm: Recording of Tristan und Isolde (Kleiber) |
Tuesday | General Meeting |
21 August Concordia Club | 1.30pm: Recording of Tannhäuser |
Tuesday 13 September The Print Room | 6.15pm: Talk by the production team of the AO’s Die Walküre – Andrew Sinclair, Alan Lees and Desmond Digby |
Sunday 18 September Concordia Club | 1.30pm: Recording of Lohengrin (von Karajan) |
Monday 10 October SOH | Group booking for Die Walküre |
Sunday 16 October Concordia Club | 1.30pm: – Recording of Meistersinger (von Karajan, Dresden) – Talk by Werner Baer MBE on the new production of The Ring at Bayreuth |
Monday 17 October The Print Room | 6.15pm: Talk by Maestro Cillario about the planned Ring Cycle at the Sydney Opera House commencing 1984 |
Friday 28 October SOH Northern Foyer | Group booking for Die Walküre Supper party for cast, production team and Opera management |
Sunday 20 November Ball’s Head Park near Greenwich | 11am: First Annual Picnic |
Sunday 27 November Concordia Club | 1.30pm: Recording of Parsifal |