Wagner Society events held in 2024

 

Sunday
11 February
2.50pm: DVD - 
SOH Opening Concert

2.00pm: A discussion of the Brisbane Ring, led by Helden bass-baritone Warwick Fyfe
 

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Goethe Institut *
Wednesday
21 February
8.00pm: German soprano Alexandra Steiner in conversation from Germany with Ross Whitelaw

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via Zoom from Berlin
Sunday 
10 March
2.30pm: DVD -
Erich Leinsdorf in rehearsal & performance
2.00pm: A talk by Heldentenor Simon O’Neill covering his life with Wagner

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Goethe Institut *
Wednesday
20 March
7.00pm: A talk on Wagner in Britain by broadcaster Christopher Cook interviewed by Ross Whitelaw

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via Zoom from England

Sunday  
21 April

POSTPONED

12.30pm: DVD - Weber’s Euryanthe (3 Acts) + discussion of production

POSTPONED

  Goethe Institut *
Sunday 
19 May
2.00pm: Concert with soprano Valda Wilson, bass baritone Eugene Raggio and pianists Katherine Day & Thomas Johnson 
followed by Wagner’s birthday celebration

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Goethe Institut *
Sunday 
16 June
12.00pm: Special Bloomsday live zoom at the Goethe Institut - American music critic & author Alex Ross talks from Los Angeles about Joyce and Wagner.

1.15pm: AGM [only financial members may vote]

2.00pm: DVD - Christian Thielemann My Richard Strauss  

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Goethe Institut *
Wednesday 26 June 12.00pm: Talk via zoom by Chairman, Wagner Society of Southern California, Dr John Mastrogiovanni on Parsifal: The Will and Redemption

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Zoom
Sunday 
14 July
12.00pm:  DVD - Richard Strauss Gala from Dresden  2.00pm: Conversation with award-winning Australian baritone Simon Meadows, exploring his career and experiences in the music industry.

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Goethe Institut *
Sunday
28 July
12.00pm: DVD - The Ring without words – Lorin Maazel   2.00pm: On the 20th anniversary of the SOSA Ring, conversation with production & set designer Michael Scott-Mitchell and lighting designer Nick Schlieper about the Adelaide Ring

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Goethe Institut *
Sunday
18 August
12.00pm: DVD - Lotte Lehmann Master Classes Vol. II 2.00pm: 'Love, Law and Power in Die Walküre' by Dr Antony Ernst, director, dramaturg, lecturer and arts administrator, and Director of the Royal Danish Orchestra

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Goethe Institut *
Sunday        29 September 12.30pm: DVD - Richard Strauss and his Heroines     2.00pm: WSSA President Dr Geoffrey Seidel on 'Lola Montez - From Saxony to Sydney via Saxony'

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Goethe Institut *

Sunday        20 October

POSTPONED

12.30pm: DVD - Ring highlights from Valencia – Zubin Mehta    

POSTPONED

2.00pm: Robert Gay, teacher of music history courses and leader of international musical and cultural tours, on Cosima Wagner

POSTPONED

TO BE RESCHEDULED IN 2025 Goethe institut*
Sunday 
10 November

10.30am: WSNSW Symposium on Die Walküre - the continuing series on The Ring in the week of the SSO-Simone Young performances

Speakers:

Esteban Insausti: Welcome and Introduction
Antony Ernst - Law and Power in Die Walküre
Thea Brejzek - Iconoclasm – Romeo Castelluccis’ 2024 Ring
at La Monnaie, Brussels: Die Walküre
Stephen Mould - Wagner – rehearsing and performing, on stage or in concert. [Reflections on Die Walküre in advance of a concert performance.]
Ysolt Clark - A mechanic in a room of poets - a perspective of playing the horn and Wagner Tuba in The Ring Cycle
Warwick Fyfe - Life Wasn’t Meant to be Easy - on performing a role with no easy bits.

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Goethe Institut *
Saturday 
16 November
4.00 - 6.00pm: WSNSW reception for other Wagner Societies Photos  The Barnet Long Room, Customs House *
Sunday 
1 December
2.00pm: Christmas concert and party.with soprano Amanda Windred. mezzo Celeste Haworth,
& collaborative pianist Yerim Lee

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Goethe Institut *

*Venues:

Goethe Institut
Event Hall (upstairs)
90 Ocean Street (cnr Jersey Road)
Woollahra NSW

St Columba Community Centre
53A Ocean Street (cnr Forth Street)
Woollahra NSW

The Barnet Long Room
Customs House
45 Alfred Street
Circular Quay
Sydney CBD