WAGNER SOCIETY IN NSW
EVENTS IN 2025
COMING EVENTS
Starting times and venues may vary so please check this webpage closer to the dates.
| NOVEMBER | |
| Sunday 30 November St Columba* | 2.00pm: CHRISTMAS CONCERT with tenor Bradley Cooper and pianist Thomas Victor Johnson & PARTY Read more GET TICKETS HERE |
PREVIOUS EVENTS IN 2025
| Sunday 19 January via zoom | 7.00pm [AEDT]: Director of Regents Opera Ben Woodward in conversation on the slimmed down Regents Opera Ring Cycle – via zoom Read more |
Wednesday 29 January via zoom | 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 Read more |
| Sunday 2 February Goethe Institut, Woollahra* | 2.00pm: Robert Gay returned to give his talk on Cosima Wagner Read more |
| Wednesday 12 February via zoom | 12.00 noon (AEDT): Part 2 of a lecture by Dr John Mastrogiovanni, Chairman, Wagner Society of Southern California, on Parsifal: The Conscious Redeemer – via zoom Read more |
| Wednesday 12 March via zoom | 7.00pm [AEDT]: German tenor Mirko Roschkowski in conversation with Ross Whitelaw about his career – via zoom |
| Sunday 23 March Goethe Institut* | 12.00 noon: DVD – Baden Baden 2004 – Parsifal, Act 1 2.00pm: Talk by Emeritus Professor Colin Mackerras AO, Vice-President of The Wagner Society in Queensland, on Parsifal Reanalysed Read more |
| 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 |
| Wednesday 7 May via zoom | 7.00pm [AEST]: Australian mezzo-soprano, Margaret Plummer, in conversation from Italy – via zoom Read more |
| 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 Read more |
| 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 Read more |
| 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 Read more |
| Sunday 17 August Goethe Institut* | 11.00am: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s 1982 film of Wagner’s opera Parsifal Read more |
| 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 JohnsonAnd 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 Read more |
| 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 Read more |
| Saturday 15 November Goethe Institut* | 10.30am – 4.00pm: SIEGFRIED SYMPOSIUM Speakers:– Livia Brash: From Barricade to Bayreuth: the Political Evolution of Siegfried – Daniel Linton-France: From the Practice Room to the Performance – observations from working on the Ring in Bayreuth (The WSNSW is sponsoring the Assistant Conductor role for the SSO.) – Professor Carole Cusack: Siegfried the Failed Hero, Brünnhilde the Redeemer of the World – Dr Peter Bassett: Siegfried and the Power of Nature – Dr David Larkin: The hero’s (changing) journey: Wagner’s stylistic evolution in Siegfried The SSO’s concert version of Siegfried is on 13 and 16 November. Read more |
* 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