WAGNER SOCIETY EVENTS IN 2025

COMING EVENTS

Starting times and venues may vary so please check this webpage closer to the dates.

PREVIOUS EVENTS IN 2025

Sunday 19 January7.00pm [AEDT]: Director of Regents Opera Ben Woodward in conversation on the slimmed down Regents Opera Ring Cycle – via zoom

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Wednesday 29 January

7.00pm [AEDT]: Opera and theatre director Suzanne Chaundy in conversation about the upcoming production of Melbourne Opera’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – via zoom

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Sunday 2 February

Goethe Institut, Woollahra*
2.00pm: Robert Gay returned to give his talk on Cosima Wagner

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Wednesday 12 February12.00 noon (AEDT): Part 2 of a lecture by Dr John Mastrogiovanni, Chairman, Wagner Society of Southern California, on Parsifal: The Conscious Redeemer – via zoom

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Wednesday 12 March

7.00pm [AEDT]: German tenor Mirko Roschkowski in conversation with Ross Whitelaw about his career – via zoom

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Sunday 23 March

Goethe Institut*
12.00 noon: DVD – Baden Baden 2004Parsifal, Act 1

2.00pm: Talk by Emeritus Professor Colin Mackerras AO, Vice-President of The Wagner Society in Queensland, on Parsifal Reanalysed

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Sunday 13 April

Goethe Institut*

1.00pm: Annual General Meeting

2.00pm: The Reawakening of the Giants – Hermann Ritter and his Viola Alta – talk & presentation by SSO Principal Violist Tobias Breider & pianist Susanne Powell

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Wednesday 7 May

7.00pm [AEST]: Australian mezzo-soprano, Margaret Plummer, in conversation from Italy – via zoom

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Sunday 25 May

Goethe Institut*
2.00pm: WAGNER’S BIRTHDAY CONCERT with soprano Livia Brash, bass baritone Eugene Raggio & pianist Thomas Victor Johnson – in a program of highlights from Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – followed by Wagner’s birthday celebrations

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Sunday 22 June

Goethe Institut*
12.00 noon: DVD – Met Opera 1994 – Parsifal, Act 2

2.00pm: Associate Professor Stephen Mould on Carlo Felice Cillario & Wagner

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Sunday 20 July

Goethe Institut*
12.00 noon: DVD – Salzburg Festival 2013 – Parsifal, Act 3

2.00pm: Tortured Immortality Redeemed by Love: Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman & Parsifal – talk by Professor Carole M Cusack, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney

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Sunday 17 August

Goethe Institut*
11.00am: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s 1982 film of Wagner’s opera Parsifal

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Sunday 14 September

St Columba, Woollahra*

2.00pm: WSNSW 45TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONCERT

Works by Wagner and Strauss with soprano Alexandra Flood and pianist Thomas Victor Johnson

And speakers:
– Mairwyn Curtis who spoke about her mother soprano and Honorary Life Member Rita Hunter
– Artists’ Liaison Leona Geeves (member no. 87) who passed on a message from foundation members Margaret & Clare Hennessy [members no.19) who were unable to attend
– Jennifer Ferns (member no. 34) described her early memories of the Society
– Professor Michael Ewans (Hon Life Member 0) spoke about the early days of the Society and about Richard Wagner


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Sunday 12 October

Goethe Institut*
12.30pm: DVD – Act I, Glyndebourne Opera‘s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg [2011]

2.00pm: Talk by Esteban Insausti on Traditional vs Iconoclastic stagings of Die Meistersinger

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* 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

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