| 18 February, Goethe Institut | 1pm: Tony Palmer’s Wagner film, part 8 of 10 2pm: Terence Watson gave presentations on the 2006 Ring Cycle productions lin Toronto and Costa Mesa, and then led a discussion with other members who had attended these performances, with Marie Leech, Leona Geeves, and Colleen & Michael Chesterman.Terence also gave a talk entitled The case of Siegfried, which looked at the journey Wagner created for Siegfried both within the stories of Siegfried and Gotterdammerung, and within their music. |
| 18 March, Goethe Institut | 1pm: Tony Palmer’s Wagner film, part 9 of 10 2pm: Robert Gay – the influences of French Grand Opera found in Wagner’s works after Rienzi. |
| 15 April, Goethe Institut | 1pm: Tony Palmer’s Wagner film, part 10 of 10 2pm: Australian composer and pianist Nigel Butterley’s second Faust talk, Faust and the Feminine |
| 20 May, Goethe Institut | 2pm: Annual General Meeting 2.30pm: Recital by students from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music who have received German Language Scholarships from our Society: Catherine Bouchier, Helen Sherman & Andrew Finden, accompanied by Sharolyn Kimmorley 3pm: Birthday celebration for Richard Wagner |
| 15 July, Goethe Institut | 2pm: Roger Cruickshank – Wolfram, the glue that binds the two legends which are Wagner’s sources for his story of Tannhäuser |
| 2 September, Goethe Institut | 2pm: Professor Heath Lees – talk on Wagner and Mallarmé, in conjunction with the launch of his new book Mallarmé and Wagner: Music and Poetic Language. |
| 21 October, Goethe Institut | 2pm: Bayreuth attendees return like the pilgrims from Rome, to tell us of the second year of the Ring and the new production of Meistersinger by Katharina Wagner . The group included Monica and Aliro Olave, June Donsworth, Julie and Terry Clark, and Dennis Mather, who also showed photographs of the productions. |
| 11 November, Goethe Institut | 2pm: Dr Antony Ernst – Tristan und Isolde His talk was subtitled Wagner, the Appian Way, and the General Theory of Relativity. The Appian Way is this case refers to the ground- breaking work of Swiss stage designer and theorist Adolphe Appia (1862-1928), and not to the Via Appia, the Roman road linking Rome with Brindisi. |
| 9 December, Goethe Institut | DVD: documentary on the life of Birgit Nilsson 2pm: End of Year Function |