Tuesday 7 February The Print Room, 141 Dowling Street, Waterloo | 6.15pm: Talk by composer Peter Sculthorpe |
Monday 27 February SOH | Group booking for Die Walküre |
Friday 9 March Old Darlington School, Sydney University | Connell Byrne [Australian tenor, for many years active in Europe] sang arias mostly by Wagner, accompanied by Werner Baer |
Tuesday Jamieson Street | 6.15pm: ‘Love or power – The fatal choice’, a talk by Sir Charles Mackerras Precis of talk |
Friday Stanmore | 6.30pm: Annual General Meeting 7.30pm: Annual ‘Wagner’s Birthday’ Dinner |
Saturday Melbourne | Group tour to concert performance of Siegfried |
Sunday Concordia Club | 1.30pm: Recording of Die Walküre (von Karajan) |
Tuesday Goethe Institut | 6.30pm: Talk by Stuart Challender, resident conductor with AO. In particular, the preparation of Wagner’s original score to suit the demands of SOH pit and Ring conductor Maestro Cillario |
Tuesday | Group booking for Das Rheingold |
Sunday Concordia Club | 1.30pm: Recording of Siegfried (von Karajan) |
Sunday Concordia Club | 1.30pm: Recording of Götterdämmerung (von Karajan) |
Sunday Goethe Institut | 6.30pm: Talk by Professor Michael Ewans on ‘Wagner and his Successors’, reviewing Wagner’s influence on the music and drama of Janáček and Debussy |
Sunday 30 September Concordia Club | 1.30pm: Recording of Tristan und Isolde |
9 November Newtown | 7.30pm: ‘A Wagner night of a different kind’, courtesy of Denis Condon with works of Wagner and others transcribed for piano rolls on player pianos and played by well-known pianists on the piano rolls |