Society events held in 1990

 

Thursday
8 February
6.15pm: Recital by pianist Dennis Hennig, sponsored by The Opera Guild, to launch his Tausig Wagner CD which was also sponsored by the Society  

Opera Centre,

Surry Hills
Sunday
11 March

1pm: CD - Elektra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conductor Sir Georg Solti

 

Goethe Institut

Sunday
15 April

1pm: CD - Parsifal, conductor Hans Knappertsbusch

 

Goethe Institut

Sunday
20 May

1pm:

- Annual General Meeting

- Video - Das Rheingold

  Goethe Institut

Friday
 25 May

7.30pm: Annual ‘Wagner’s Birthday’ Dinner

Guest of Honour: Bernadette Cullen

 

Lucy McPherson sang two arias from Tannhäuser

 

Menzies Hotel

Sunday
17 June

9.30am: Seminar on Tristan und Isolde


Speakers:

- Dennis Hennig

- Dr Helen Fulton

- Professor Andrew Riemer

- Andrew Sharpe

 

Goethe Institut

Sunday
15 July

1pm: Lecture by Fred Blanks, Sydney musicologist and critic, on 'Gustav and Cosima'

 

Goethe Institut

Sunday
19 August

1pm: Video - Die Walküre

  Goethe Institut
Monday
24 September
A special evening - Leo Scholfield opened the Society's exhibition of the Murray Smith Lohengrin Collection - the original drawings of the set & costume designs by Frank Hinder for the 1958 production of Lohengrin by the Elizabethan Theatre, which had been purchased by the Society.   The Print Room
Sunday
16 October

1pm: Video - Siegfried

  Goethe Institut
Thursday
27 October
Theatre party for Lohengrin   Opera Theatre,
SOH
Sunday
18 November

12pm: Short service to commemorate the life of Leonard Hansen, Foundation President

 

1pm: Video - Götterdämmerung

  Goethe Institut
Sunday
16 December

2pm: Christmas Party

Guest: Elizabeth Allen, former member of the AO Chorus
  Goethe Institut