Wagner Society events held in 2011

20 February

Goethe Institut, Woollahra
12.30pm: DVD – Act 3 of the Munich Lohengrin with Jonas Kaufmann

2pm: Cui bono? The Liszt – Wagner relationship reconsidered by Dr David Larkin 
20 March

Goethe Institut
12.30pm: DVD – The Life and Works of Richard Wagner, directed by Carl Fröhlich, first released on 20 November 1913

2pm: Rousseau and Wagner: musician-philosophers by Dr Terence Watson
17 April

Goethe Institut
12.30pm: DVD – Part 1 of  Das Rheingold, the only video recording of Karajan’s 1978 Salzburg Ring Cycle

2pm: Brendan Carmody, winner of the inaugural “Berlin New Music Opera Award” (which replaced the “Bayreuth Scholarship”) – his 3 months in Europe, including working with Barrie Kosky at the Komische Oper Berlin on a new production of Der Freischütz.


22 May

Goethe Institut
12.30pm: DVD – Part 2 of  Das Rheingold, the only video recording of Karajan’s 1978 Salzburg Ring Cycle

2pm:

– Annual General Meeting

– Afternoon tea to celebrate Richard Wagner’s birthday (22 May), the 198th anniversary of Wagner’s birth

10 July

Goethe Institut
12.30pm: DVD – Act 2 of Bayreuth Festival’s 2010  Die Walküre

2pm:

Recital by Rachel Bate, winner of the 2010 German Opera Scholarship

– Members report back from Hamburg Ring & Metropolitan Opera’s Siegfried

7 August

Goethe Institut
12.30pm: DVD – Act 3 of Bayreuth Festival’s 2010  Die Walküre

2pm:

– Recital by baritone James Roser and soprano Emma Moore

– Members report back from Glyndebourne Mastersinger and San Francisco Ring  (Colleen Chesterman and Katie French)

18 September

Goethe Institut
12.30pm: DVD – Part 1 of Wagner’s early opera, Rienzi. Or the Last Tribune. Deutsche Oper 2010 Berlin. Conductor: Sebastian Lang-Lessing. Title role: Torsten Kerl. (Acts 1 & 2)

2pm: Recital by soprano Rebecca Hilder accompanied by Andrew Greene OA 

2.50pm: Report back by members attending Bayreuth 2010

Program

16 October

Goethe Institut
12.30pm: DVD – Part 2 of Wagner’s early opera, Rienzi. Or the Last Tribune. (Acts 3, 4 & 5)

2pm: Lyndon Terracini, Artistic Director, Opera Australia – The Melbourne Ring Cycle

20 November

Goethe Institut
2pm: DVD – The Three Divas: interviews with Martha Modl, Birgit Nilsson and Astrid Varnay about their Bayreuth careers.

3pm: Christmas Party – Competitions and Raffles. Sale of books and memorabilia donated by Janet Wayland.

 

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