Society events held in 1983

Recording of The Flying Dutchman, with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in the title role

Concordia Club Stanmore

Tuesday
 15 March 

7.30pm: General Meeting

The Print Room,
141 Dowling Street, Woolloomooloo

Sunday
 20 March

2pm: Recording of Das Rheingold

Friday
1 April

1.30pm: Recording of Bach’s St Mathew Passion, with Fischer-Dieskau and Peter Pears, conductor Klemperer

Sunday
17 April

1.30pm: Recording of Die Walküre (Solti)

Monday
2 May

Talk by Connell Byrne - an Australian tenor who has made his singing career in Europe and is returning for a season with the Tasmanian Opera Company - on the challenges facing a tenor in Wagnerian roles

Friday
20 May

- Annual General Meeting

- Annual ‘Wagner’s Birthday’ Dinner

Guest of Honour: Raymond Myers, an Australian baritone

Sunday
29 May

1.30pm: Recording of Siegfried

Thursday
 16 June

6pm: Reception for Ken Neate, an Australian Wagnerian tenor, who has had a long career in Germany, has sung at Bayreuth and is Professor of Voice at the Richard Strauss Conservatorium of Music, Munich. He is returning to Australia to judge the Metropolitan Opera Auditions.

He spoke about the ‘Wagner Voice’.

Sunday
19 June

1.30pm: Recording of Götterdämmerung 

Friday
 15 July 

6.30pm: Professor Michael Ewans’ lecture on ‘Die Walküre – a new interpretation (not really)’

Sunday
17 July

1.30pm: Recording of Tristan und Isolde (Kleiber)

Tuesday
19 July

General Meeting

21 August

1.30pm: Recording of Tannhäuser 

6.15pm: Talk by the production team of the AO’s Die Walküre – Andrew Sinclair, Alan Lees and Desmond Digby

1.30pm: Recording of Lohengrin (von Karajan)

1.30pm:

- Recording of Meistersinger (von Karajan, Dresden)

- Talk by Werner Baer MBE on the new production of The Ring at Bayreuth

Group booking for Die Walküre

Supper party for cast, production team and Opera management

1.30pm: Recording of Parsifal