Society events held in 1990

 

Thursday 8 February,

Opera Centre,

Surry Hills


6.15pm: Recital by pianist Dennis Hennig, sponsored by the Opera Guild, to launch his Tausig Wagner CD which was also sponsored by the Society.


Sunday 11 March, Goethe Institut

1pm: CD – Elektra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Sir Georg Solti

Sunday 15 April, Goethe Institut

1pm: CD – Parsifal, conductor Hans Knappertsbusch

Sunday 20 May, Goethe Institut

1pm:


Annual General Meeting

Video – Das Rheingold

Friday 25 May, Menzies Hotel

7.30pm: Annual ‘Wagner’s Birthday’ Dinner

Guest of Honour: Bernadette Cullen

Lucy McPherson sang two arias from Tannhäuser

Sunday 17 June, Goethe Institut

9.30am: Seminar on Tristan und Isolde

Speakers:

Dennis Hennig

Dr Helen Fulton

Professor Andrew Riemer

Andrew Sharpe

Sunday 15 July, Goethe Institut

1pm: Lecture by Fred Blanks, Sydney musicologist and critic, on ‘Gustav and Cosima’

Sunday 19 August, Goethe Institut

1pm: Video – Die Walküre

Monday 24 September, The Print Room

A special evening – Leo Schofield opened the Society’s exhibition of the Murray Smith Lohengrin Collection – the original drawings of the set & costume designs by Frank Hinder for the 1958 production of Lohengrin by the Elizabethan Theatre, which had been purchased by the Society.

Sunday 16 October, Goethe Institut

1pm: Video – Siegfried

Thursday 27 October, Opera Theatre, SOH

Theatre party for Lohengrin

Sunday 18 November, Goethe Institut

12pm: Short service to commemorate the life of Leonard Hansen, Foundation President


1pm: Video – Götterdämmerung
Sunday 16 December, Goethe Institut

2pm: Christmas Party

Guest: Elizabeth Allen, former member of the AO Chorus

 

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