Wagner society events held in 2016

 

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]


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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]


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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]

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22 May

Goethe Institut

2pm: 

Concert of young singers supported by the SocietyLaura Scandizzo [soprano], Lucy Bailes & pianists  Jennifer Clarkson and Bradley Gilchrist

Champagne Celebration of Wagner’s Birthday

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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]


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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) & E
vgeny Ukhanov

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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]

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20 September

Goethe Institut
2pm: Australian Singers of Wagner: The Known and Unknown by Roger Neill [UK-based arts historian]

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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]

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30 October

St Columba Community
Centre, Woollahra

2pm: 

– Concert by artists supported by the Wagner Society: Jessica Harper [soprano] & pianist Bradley Gilchrist

Christmas Party

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