Society events held in 1989

Sunday 19 February, Goethe Institut

1pm: Video – Rienzi

Sunday 19 March, Goethe Institut

1pm: CD – Parsifal

Sunday 16 April , Goethe Institut

1pm: CD – Tristan und Isolde

Friday 19 May, Menzies Hotel

7.30pm: Annual ‘Wagner’s Birthday’ DinnerGuest of Honour: Moffatt OxenbouldConal Coad sang one Wagner and two Verdi arias.

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Sunday 21 May, Goethe Institut

1pm:

Annual General Meeting

Video – Das Liebesverbot (1983, Graz Opera House)

Sunday 18 June, Goethe Institut

1pm: CS – Lohengrin (Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Sir Georg Solti, Placido Domingo and Jessye Norman)

Sunday 15 July,Goethe Institut

9.30am – 5.30pm: Seminar on Die Walküre


Speakers:

Dennis Hennig the score

Professor Michael Ewans – Interaction of the music and the drama

Talk by Prof Ewens

Professor Andrew Riemer – the myths on which the Ring is based

Talk by Prof Riemer


Discussion panel – speakers plus Donald Shanks and John Wegner, chaired by member Arthur Carter

Sunday 7 August, Sydney Opera House, Northern Foyer

6pm: Reception for Donald McIntyre, jointly hosted by The Opera Guild and the Society

Saturday 12 August, Opera Theatre,
SOH

6pm: Theatre party to Die Walküre

Sunday 20 August, Goethe Institut

1pm: CD – Flying Dutchman

Sunday 17 September, Goethe Institut

1pm: Video – documentaries

Sunday 15 October, Goethe Institut

1pm: Mini-seminar on Tannhäuser


Speakers:

Werner Baer MBE – the opera and some musical aspects

John Clifton-Everest – ‘The German lure of the Venusberg’
Sandra Hahn sang ‘Elizabeth’s Greeting’ and ‘Elizabeth’s Prayer’

Sunday 19 November, Goethe Institut

1pm: CD – Tannhäuser

Saturday 2 December, Victorian Arts Centre, Melbourne

6pm: Tannhäuser

Sunday 17 December, Goethe Institut

2.30pm:

Recital by Virginia Lamb and Peter Binning singing Liebestod, Alberich’s curse duet and Act II from The Flying Dutchman

Christmas Party

 

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