Society events held in 1999

21 February, Goethe Institut	1pm: After the Ring is Over – A retrospective discussion of the first Australian Ring, by Stephen Phillips, Managing Director, State Opera of South Australia
13-14 March, Catersfield House, Pokolbin	Parsifal weekend, hosted by Rosemary Cater-Smith and Alec Cater: – Robert Gibson (Sydney Conservatorium of Music) gave two lectures – a gala dinner
21 March Goethe Institut	*1pm: Video: Siegfried* (Kupfer production)**
18 April Goethe Institut	1pm: ‘Orpheus Ascending – a reassessment of Wagner and Wagnerism’ by Sydney poet Peter Nicholson
23 May Goethe Institut	12pm for 12.30pm: Richard Wagner Birthday Luncheon Guest of Honour: Adrian Collette, General Manager, Opera Australia, who began his address with the question ‘Is the Wagner Society a secret society? Or, perhaps more accurately, is it in danger of becoming a secret society – with its arcane rituals, customs and rights of association’.
20 June Goethe Institut	1pm: Da Capo Presents: ‘Recycling Richard’ – Patricia Baillie (WS member and proprietor of Da Capo Books, Glebe) spoke giving a lighthearted anecdotal look at dealing in music books, with special reference to Wagner. Followed by soprano Camille Mercep and pianist Glenn Amer, presenting: – an early Wagner song, Les Adieux de Marie Stuart – two Wesendonck Lieder
23 June Concert Hall, SOH	– Inaugural Australasian Wagner Seminar and lunch prior to the performance when we welcomed over twenty members of the New Zealand Wagner Association as well as members from other Australian Societies – SSO’s concert version of Siegfried
26 June Goethe Institut Concert Hall, SOH	9.20am – 2pm: Seminar on Siegfried Speakers: – Professor Heath Lees, University of Auckland, President of WSNZ – suggested three ways Siegfried can be approached: as a fairy-tale, as an epic struggle, or as a tragi-comedy – Robert Gibson, University of Sydney – outlined Wagner’s orchestral requirements for Siegfried SSO’s concert version of Siegfried
18 July, Goethe Institut	– AGM – Video of Der fliegende Holländer
22 August, Goethe Institut	1pm: Talk by Simone Young, Music Director Elect of Opera Australia
19 September, Goethe Institut	1pm: – Talk by Stephen Mould, conductor / repetiteur and 1988 Bayreuth Scholarship winner. – Recital by Warwick Fyfe and Stephen Mould: – Zueignung by Strauss – Mignonne by Wagner – two Mephisto Lieder (Nos and 5, 1831) from Seven Pieces for Goethe’s Faust by Wagner – Schumann’s Les Deux Grenadiers – Wagner’s Die beiden Grenadiere
17 October, Goethe Institut	1pm: ‘Power in The Ring’, talk by Dr Terence Watson
21 November, Goethe Institut	*1pm: Video – Lohengrin, 1982 Bayreuth production, producer Goetz Friedrich, Elizabeth Connell, Peter Hoffman, Karen Armstrong*
12 December, Goethe Institut	2pm: – Wagner Society Christmas Party – Valhalla on film