21 February | 12.45pm: DVD - Act 2 of Parsifal | 2pm: The operas Wagner almost wrote by Peter Bassett | Goethe Institut | |
28 March | 12.30pm: DVD - Act 3 of Parsifal | 2pm: Lifting the Lid on Wagner's Piano [covering Wagner and the Piano & Wagnerism and the Piano] by Professor Heath Lees |
Goethe Institut | |
18 April | 12.30pm: DVD - Act 1 of Tristan und Isolde broadcast live from Bayreuth in 2009 | 2pm: Wagner and the Politics of Friendship by Dr Terence Watson, who asked the question, 'What would we have had to do for Wagner to count us among his friends?' | Goethe Institut | |
23 May | 12.30pm: DVD - Act 2 of Tristan und Isolde broadcast live from Bayreuth in 2009 |
2pm: - Annual General Meeting |
Program | Goethe Institut |
1 August | 12.30pm: DVD - Act 3 of Tristan und Isolde broadcast live from Bayreuth in 2009 | 2pm: Stephen Whale recital: Brahms (1833-1897): Zwei Rhapsodien Op. 79 Two Rhapsodies - B Minor and G Minor; Haydn (1732- 1809): Keyboard Sonata in E Flat Major, Hob. XVI 49 (No.59); Schubert (1797-1828): Piano Sonata No. 14 in A minor (“Grande Sonate”), D. 784 (Op. posth. 143) |
Goethe Institut | |
19 September | 12.30pm: DVD - Act 1 of Lohengrin from Munich 2009 conducted by Kent Nagano with Jonas Kaufmann in the title role |
2pm: - Report back on Lohengrin by members attending Bayreuth 2010 - Recital: mezzo Anna Yun and baritone Mitchell Riley with accompanist Jack Symonds: |
Goethe Institut | |
24 October |
New York Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Das Rheingold, being screened at the Chauvel Cinema, Paddington |
Chauvel Cinema, Paddington |
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21 November | 12.30pm: DVD - Act 2 of Lohengrin from Munich 2009 conducted by Kent Nagano with Jonas Kaufmann in the title role | 2pm: Christmas Party and Wagner Bazaar | Goethe Institut | |