| 17 February |
2pm: Wagner’s three-month stay in Russia in early 1863 by Alan Whelan Alan looked at the influence of the visit on Russian musical performance and on Russian composers of the period and afterwards, & also the influence of Russia on Wagner, illustrating his talk with musical examples. |
Goethe Institut | ||
| 16 March | 1pm: DVD - Act 1 of The Flying Dutchman | 2pm: Warwick Fyfe - his study tour in Europe last November as the 2007 Bayreuth Scholar, and his experiences around the role of Wolfram in the 2007 revival of the Elke Neidhardt production of Tannhäuser by Opera Australia. | Goethe Institut | |
| 20 April |
2pm: Glenn Winslade - Life in Bayreuth from a singer's viewpoint, where he sang the title role in Tannhäuser in 2002 and 2003. |
Goethe Institut | ||
| 18 May |
2pm: - AGM - Recital by voice students from the Sydney Conservatorium of Music: Catherine Bouchier, Regina Daniel, Louise Watts, Jonathan Alley and Adam Player, accompanied by Sharolyn Kimmorley - Birthday party |
Paddington Uniting Church | ||
| 20 July | 2pm: Peter Bassett - talk on that “other” Sachs opera, Albert Lortzing’s comic opera Hans Sachs, and its influences on Wagner’s Die Meistersinger. | Goethe Institut | ||
| 31 August | 2pm: Lisa Harper-Brown and Warwick Fyfe, accompanied by Stephen Mould at the piano - recital of various solo arias, and duets for soprano and baritone | St Stephens Uniting Church, Macquarie Street | ||
| 14 September |
2pm: Dr Robert Gibson - Relationships between the music of the two Richards, Wagner and Strauss |
Paddington Uniting Church | ||
| 28 September | 2pm: Chris Broderick, the new President of the New Zealand Wagner Society - Wagner and the Visual Arts | Goethe Institut | ||
| 19 October | 2pm: Associate Professor Goetz Richter, Chair of the Strings Unit at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music - Nietzsche and Wagner | Goethe Institut | ||
| 30 November |
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2pm: Christmas Party |
Goethe Institut |