Wagner Society events held in 2015

15 February

Goethe Institut
12.30pm: DVD – BBC Great Composers:  Wagner

2pm: Russia and Wagner 1841-1941 by Dr Rosamund Bartlett [British writer, scholar, lecturer, and translator specialising in Russian literature]
10 March

Goethe Institut
12.30pm: DVD – Part 2 of  Der Fliegende Holländer

2pm: Presentation by Dr Heath Lees [an academic, musicologist, broadcaster and the founder of the Wagner Society of New Zealand] placing his film Wagner’s Ring: A Tale told in Music against the existing 100-year gallery of Wagner film
29 March

Goethe Institut

2pm: Recital by Deborah Humble [international mezzo soprano and Erda in the Melbourne Ring]

19 April

Goethe Institut

2pm: Concert of Wagner & Strauss by recipients of various Wagner awards – German, eisteddfod and Lisa Gasteen National Opera School:  Mylinda Joyce, Tania Ferris,  Robert Beasley & pianist Chris Cartner

Program
25 May

Goethe Institut
2pm:

– AGM
– Recital by bass baritone Christopher Richardson, tenor Matthew Reardon & pianist Michael Curtain

Program
14 June

Goethe Institut

12.30pm: Exploring Tristan und Isolde: a workshop by Dr David Larkin

Program
21 June

Goethe Institut

3pm: A special occasion to celebrate the SSO performances of Tristan und Isolde on 20 and 22 June, hosted by the Wagner Society in NSW, and including members of the Victorian and the Queensland Wagner Societies. Conductor David Robertson spoke about the experience of conducting Tristan.

Invitation
12 July

Goethe Institut
12.30pm: DVD – Act 1 of Lohengrin with Kaufmann

2pm: Directing Wagner – a Q&A session by Sir David McVicar, opera and theatre director
9 August

Goethe Institut
2pm: Talk by Carolyn Watson [Australian conductor based in the United States since 2013] on conductor Carlos Kleiber, and Kleiber’s Tristan und Isolde.
13 September

Goethe Institut
12.30pm: DVD – Act 2 of Lohengrin with Kaufmann

2pm: Composers today: Wagner’s legacy by Andrew Ford, composer, writer and broadcaster. This event had to be cancelled at short notice.
11 October

Goethe Institut
12.30pm: DVD – Act 3 of Lohengrin with Kaufmann

2pm: The Melbourne Ring: Looking back by Neil Armfield, director
22 November

Glebe Justice Centre 

2pm:

– Christmas concert: Laura Scandizzo, Jenny Bonner, Soonki Park & pianist Michael Curtain

– Christmas party

Video of
Heimliches Lieben (Secret Love) by Franz Schubert

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