Wagner society events held in 2016

 

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February
12.30pm: DVD - Part 1, Visconti's Ludvig 2pm: Recalling the Adelaide Rings and Parsifal by
Peter Bassett [Dramaturg and Artistic Administrator for the 2004 Adelaide Ring and a regular contributor to Opera Australia's programs]
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13 March 12.30pm: DVD - Part 2, Visconti's Ludvig 2pm: Zigfrid & Bryungilda - A History of Great Wagner Singers of Imperial Russia by Dr Rosamund Bartlett [British writer, scholar, lecturer, and translator specializing in Russian literature] Report Goethe Institut
17 April 12.30pm: DVD - Part 3, Visconti's Ludvig

2pm:

- AGM

- Richard Wagner and the Visual Arts by Trevor Clark [Wagner Society of Victoria]

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22 May  

2pm: 

- Concert of young singers supported by the Society
Laura Scandizzo [soprano],
Lucy Bailes & pianists 
Jennifer Clarkson and 
Bradley Gilchrist

- Champagne Celebration of Wagner's Birthday

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19 June 12.30pm: DVD - Anna Russell’s “analysis” of The Ring Cycle 2pm: After Wagner by
Andrew Ford [composer, writer and broadcaster]
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24 July   1.30pm: Joachim Herz’s
Flying Dutchman by
Dr Graham Bruce [President of the Queensland Wagner Society]
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6 August  

2pm: Seminar on Bach to the Future: Wagner's Roots and the German Nation by
Dr Antony Ernst [a director, dramaturg, lecturer and arts administrator]

Recital by Ayse Goknur Shanal (sponsored  by the Wagner Society at the Lisa Gasteen Summer School) & Evgeny Ukhanov
 

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7 August   10am: Seminar on Bach to the Future: Wagner's Roots and the German Nation by
Dr Antony Ernst [a director, dramaturg, lecturer and arts administrator]

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20 September   2pm: Australian Singers of Wagner: The Known and Unknown by Roger Neill [UK-based arts historian] Report Goethe Institut
16 October   2pm: Music of the Future? Liszt, Wagner and the Audiences of the Day by
Dr David Larkin  [senior lecturer in musicology at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music, specialising in nineteenth-century music]
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30 October  

2pm: 

- Concert by artists supported by the Wagner SocietyJessica Harper [soprano] & pianist Bradley Gilchrist

- Christmas Party

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St Columba Community
Centre, Woollahra