21 February, Goethe Institut | 12.45pm: DVD – Act 2 of Parsifal 2pm: The operas Wagner almost wrote by Peter Bassett |
28 March, Goethe Institut | 12.30pm: DVD – Act 3 of Parsifal 2pm: Lifting the Lid on Wagner’s Piano [covering Wagner and the Piano & Wagnerism and the Piano] by Professor Heath Lees |
18 April, Goethe Institut | 12.30pm: DVD – Act 1 of Tristan und Isolde broadcast live from Bayreuth in 2009 2pm: Wagner and the Politics of Friendship by Dr Terence Watson, who asked the question, ‘What would we have had to do for Wagner to count us among his friends?’ |
23 May, Goethe Institut | 12.30pm: DVD – Act 2 of Tristan und Isolde broadcast live from Bayreuth in 2009 2.00pm: – Annual General Meeting – Recital by Emma Moore (soprano), Anna Dowsley (mezzo soprano), Thomas Johnson (Associate Artist), and Simon Halligan (baritone) with Sharolyn Kimmorley (piano) – Celebration of the 197th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s birth (on 22 May 1813) Program |
1 August, Goethe Institut | 12.30pm: DVD – Act 3 of Tristan und Isolde broadcast live from Bayreuth in 2009 2pm: Stephen Whale recital: Brahms (1833-1897): Zwei Rhapsodien Op. 79 Two Rhapsodies – B Minor and G Minor; Haydn (1732- 1809): Keyboard Sonata in E Flat Major, Hob. XVI 49 (No.59); Schubert (1797-1828): Piano Sonata No. 14 in A minor (“Grande Sonate”), D. 784 (Op. posth. 143) |
19 September, Goethe Institut | 12.30pm: DVD – Act 1 of Lohengrin from Munich 2009 conducted by Kent Nagano with Jonas Kaufmann in the title role 2.00pm: – Report back on Lohengrin by members attending Bayreuth 2010 – Recital: mezzo Anna Yun and baritone Mitchell Riley with accompanist Jack Symonds: songs of Robert Schumann and Schubert and extract from Bach’s St Matthew Passion |
24 October, Chauvel Cinema, Paddington | New York Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Das Rheingold, being screened at the Chauvel Cinema, Paddington |
21 November, Goethe Institut | 12.30pm: DVD – Act 2 of Lohengrin from Munich 2009 conducted by Kent Nagano with Jonas Kaufmann in the title role 2pm: Christmas Party and Wagner Bazaar |