21 February Goethe Institut | 12.30pm: DVD – Part 1, Visconti’s Ludvig 2pm: Recalling the Adelaide Rings and Parsifal by Peter Bassett [Dramaturg and Artistic Administrator for the 2004 Adelaide Ring and a regular contributor to Opera Australia’s programs] Report |
13 March Goethe Institut | 12.30pm: DVD – Part 2, Visconti’s Ludvig 2pm: Zigfrid & Bryungilda – A History of Great Wagner Singers of Imperial Russia by Dr Rosamund Bartlett [British writer, scholar, lecturer, and translator specializing in Russian literature] Report |
17 April Goethe Institut | 12.30pm: DVD – Part 3, Visconti’s Ludvig 2pm: – AGM – Richard Wagner and the Visual Arts by Trevor Clark [Wagner Society of Victoria] Report |
22 May Goethe Institut | 2pm: – Concert of young singers supported by the Society: Laura Scandizzo [soprano], Lucy Bailes & pianists Jennifer Clarkson and Bradley Gilchrist – Champagne Celebration of Wagner’s Birthday Report |
19 June Goethe Institut | 12.30pm: DVD – Anna Russell’s “analysis” of The Ring Cycle 2pm: After Wagner by Andrew Ford [composer, writer and broadcaster] Report |
24 July Goethe Institut | 1.30pm: Joachim Herz’s Flying Dutchman by Dr Graham Bruce [President of the Queensland Wagner Society] |
6 August Goethe Institut | 2pm: Part 1 of a Seminar on Bach to the Future: Wagner’s Roots and the German Nation by Dr Antony Ernst [a director, dramaturg, lecturer and arts administrator] Seminar Recital by Ayse Goknur Shanal (sponsored by the Wagner Society at the Lisa Gasteen Summer School) & Evgeny Ukhanov |
7 August Goethe Institut | 10am: Part 2 of the Seminar on Bach to the Future: Wagner’s Roots and the German Nation by Dr Antony Ernst [a director, dramaturg, lecturer and arts administrator] |
20 September Goethe Institut | 2pm: Australian Singers of Wagner: The Known and Unknown by Roger Neill [UK-based arts historian] Report |
16 October Goethe Institut | 2pm: Music of the Future? Liszt, Wagner and the Audiences of the Day by Dr David Larkin [senior lecturer in musicology at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, specialising in nineteenth-century music] Report |
30 October St Columba Community | 2pm: – Concert by artists supported by the Wagner Society: Jessica Harper [soprano] & pianist Bradley Gilchrist – Christmas Party |