16 March, Goethe Institut | 1pm: Talk by Antony Ernst: The beginning of the Endless Melody – the first sixty years of performance of Tristan und Isolde |
22 March to 12 April Melbourne State Opera | Der fliegende Holländer, Opera Australia’s Melbourne season |
25 May , Ritz Carlton Hotel | 12pm for 12.30pm: Richard Wagner’s Birthday LuncheonGuest speaker: Moffatt Oxenbould (Artistic Director, OA) |
20 July, Goethe Institut | 1pm: – AGM – ‘Knappertsbusch, Hotter and Sachs – the three Hanses’ – talk by David Nunn |
21 September, Goethe Institut | 1pm: ‘Wagner the Songwriter’ – talk by Arthur Carter illustrated by recordings |
19 October, Goethe Institut | 1pm: ‘Wagner Singers Old and New’ – talk by Barbara McNulty illustrated by recordings |
16 November, Goethe Institut | 1pm: Video – Lohengrin, performed by the Chor and Orchester den Bayreuther Festspiel conducted by Peter Schneider and directed by Werner Herzog, 1991, with Paul Frey, Cheryl Studer, Gabriele Schnaut, Ekkehard Wlaschiha and Manfred Schenk |
Saturday 22 November, Art Gallery of NSW | Tannhäuser seminar co-hosted by the AGNSW and the Wagner Society covering opera, history and art Speakers: Antony Ernst, Robin Gibson, Garry Darby & Elke Neidhardt |
14 December, Goethe Institut | 2pm: – The Life of Wagner, a 1913 black & white film – Christmas Party |