WAGNER SOCIETY EVENTS IN 2025
COMING EVENTS
Starting times and venues may vary so please check this webpage closer to the dates.
| JULY | |
| 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 Cusack, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney Read more BUY TICKETS HERE |
| AUGUST | |
| Sunday 17 August Goethe Institut* | 12.00 noon: DVD – 1982 – Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s Parsifal Read more |
| SEPTEMBER | |
| Sunday 14 September St Columba* | 2.00pm: WSNSW 45TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONCERT Works by Wagner and Strauss with soprano Alexandra Flood and pianist Thomas Victor JohnsonRead more |
| OCTOBER | |
| Sunday 12 October Goethe Institut* | 12.00pm: DVD – TBA 2.00pm: Talk by Esteban Insausti on Traditional vs Iconoclastic stagings of Die Meistersinger |
| NOVEMBER | |
| Saturday 15 November Venue TBA | 10.00am – 4.00pm: SIEGFRIED SYMPOSIUM The SSO’s concert version of Siegfried is on 13 and 16 November. |
| Sunday 30 November St Columba* | 2.00pm: CHRISTMAS CONCERT with tenor Bradley Cooper and pianist Thomas Victor Johnson & PARTY |
PREVIOUS EVENTS IN 2025
| Sunday 19 January | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 ZOOM: 7 May | 7.00pm [AEST]: Australian mezzo-soprano, Margaret Plummer, in conversation via zoom from Italy 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 |
* 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