Society events held in 1983

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
 15 March 

The Print Room,
141 Dowling Street, Woolloomooloo

7.30pm: General Meeting

Sunday
 20 March

Concordia Club Stanmore

2pm: Recording of Das Rheingold

Friday
1 April

Concordia Club Stanmore

1.30pm: Recording of Bach’s St Mathew Passion, with Fischer-Dieskau and Peter Pears, conductor Klemperer

Sunday
17 April

Concordia Club Stanmore

1.30pm: Recording of Die Walküre (Solti)

Monday
2 May

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
20 May

Sheraton-Wentworth Hotel
– Annual General Meeting

– Annual ‘Wagner’s Birthday’ Dinner Guest of Honour: Raymond Myers, an Australian baritone

Sunday
29 May

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
19 June

Concordia Club

1.30pm: Recording of Götterdämmerung 

Friday
 15 July 

Music Room
Concordia Club

6.30pm: Professor Michael Ewans’ lecture on ‘Die Walküre– a new interpretation (not really)’

Sunday
17 July

Concordia Club

1.30pm: Recording of Tristan und Isolde (Kleiber)

Tuesday
19 July

The Print Room
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

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