Wagner Society events held in 2006

2pm: Professor Kim Walker, Dean of the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, to introduce the work of the Conservatorium, especially its Opera Unit. 

Then Sharolyn Kimmorley  illustrated the coaching techniques she uses with singers by conducting a class with a pupil from the Con, Catherine Bouchier.

2pm:

- Annual General Meeting

- Recital by Jessica Pratt and two of our 2005 German Language Scholarship students, Amy Radford and Harriett Marshall, accompanied by Kate Golla, the 2005 Bayreuth Scholar

- Kate Golla gave a short talk about her month in Germany last year

- our birthday celebration

2pm: Terence Watson chaired a thoughtful discussion on the subject of anti-Semitism in Wagner’s music

2pm: Report back by members who attend the Bayreuth Festival in 2006 - on the new Ring production, the first Bayreuth Ring conducted by Christian Thielemann 

- Dennis Mather & John Studdert led the Ring discussion with a presentation of photographs from the programs and other sources.

- Elizabeth Gordon-Werner spoke about her personal and favourable reaction to Christoph Schlingensief’s much-maligned production of Parsifal.

2pm: End of year function

A documentary on Waltraud Meier I follow a voice within me was shown.