Wagner Society events held in 2022

 

WEDNESDAY ZOOM
19 January
7.00pm: Documentary film makers Wayne Groom and Dr Carolyn Bilsborow talked to us from Adelaide about and showed excerpts from their latest production Marjorie Lawrence: The World at her Feet

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SUNDAY 30 January

Mosman Art Gallery

2.00pm: Recital by Rebecca MacCallion [soprano], Bronwyn Douglass [soprano] and Bradley Kunda [pianist] with Lieder by composers including Brahms, Wolf, Wagner, Berg, Marx and Richard Strauss

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SUNDAY 20 February

Goethe Institut, Woollahra

1.30pm: Talk by Robert Gay on The impact of French Grand Opera on the works of Verdi & Wagner

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WEDNESDAY ZOOM
2 March
7.00pm: Talk by Christopher Cook [BBC broadcaster from Deal, England], via zoom on Amfortas! Die Wunde … Two Wounded Disciples: The post-Christian world of Parsifal and the curious symbiosis between Amfortas and Klingsor

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SUNDAY 13 March

St Columba Community Centre,
Woollahra
2.00pm: Masterclass with Christina Henson Hayes [Warwick Fyfe’s vocal coach] & pianist Bradley Gilchrist featuring Ellen McNeill [WSNSW/PO Scholarship holder], Nathan Bryon & Damien Noyce [WSNSW funded], Paul McLeod [WSNSW member] and Michael James, Anita de Lisen & Ashlee Woodgate [Christina’s students], with guests of honour Warwick Fyfe [Helden Bass Baritone] & Ruth Frances

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SUNDAY 27 March

Goethe Institut,
Woollahra

12.30pm: DVD Silent Wagner

2.00pm: Talk by Ralph Myers [Designer of the Aix en Provence Tristan und Isolde] on Isolde in Aix

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SUNDAY 10 April

Goethe Institut

12.30pm:  DVD Die Feen – A delightful children’s version

2.00pm: Talk by Peter Bassett [Wagner author and dramaturg] on Hurry away then, towards the East

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SUNDAY 1 May

Goethe Institut

1.30pm: DVD of Fritz Lang’s masterpiece Siegfried

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WEDNESDAY ZOOM
4 May
12.30pm: Erica Miner [Award winning author, scriptwriter, lecturer and journalist] talked to us from Seattle about Wagner and Berlioz

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SUNDAY 29 May

St Columba Community Centre
1.00pm: AGM (Financial members only)

2.00pm: Concert by Brad Cooper [tenor], Jane Ede [principal soprano for Opera Australia] & Bradley Gilchrist [pianist]

3.30pm: Wagner’s birthday celebrations


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SUNDAY 26 June

Goethe Institut

2.00pm: DVD – Marjorie Lawrence: the World at her Feet by documentary film makers Wayne Groom and Dr Carolyn Bilsborow

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SUNDAY 31 July

St Columba Community Centre

2.00pm: Concert with Rebecca MacCallion [soprano], Nathan Bryon [tenor], Daniel Macey [baritone] and Bradley Gilchrist [pianist]. Valda Wilson was not be able to sing at this concert due to illness. At very short notice, Rebecca MacCallion agreed to sing in Valda’s place. 

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SUNDAY 18 September

Goethe Institut
2.00pm: Robert Gay continued his talk on French Grand Opera

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SUNDAY 13 November

St Columba Community Centre

2.00pm: Concert with soprano Jessica Harper, cellist Joseph Eisinger & pianist Bradley Gilchrist

Program: a selection of Germanic repertoire, including Lieder, arias & cello transcriptions by Wagner, Weber, Liszt and Strauss

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Video of ‘Morgen’

SUNDAY 27 November

Robert Mitchell’s residence, Newtown

2.00pm: Christmas Party & Wagner Reiseberichte

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