OUR NEXT EVENT – SUNDAY 18 JUNE 2023


A CONVERSATION WITH NOEL STAUNTON

 

Noel Staunton

 

12.30pm: DVD ‘Frozen Music  The Sydney Opera House, It’s more than just opera' (1984, 53 Mins) 
This delightfully intimate and nostalgic documentary reveals the vivid and varied creative life of the SOH during its 10th Anniversary year. With Joan Sutherland, Robert Helpmann, Janet Baker, Cleo Laine, Luciano Pavarotti and others. This DVD is the first of three films about aspects of the opera house to be shown to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its opening.

2.00pm: A conversation with Noel Staunton
Noel Staunton is a freelance creative director and producer specialising in large-scale productions and special events. His expertise is in festivals, opera, classical music, music theatre, contemporary dance and large public events. Noel was the Artistic Director of the Brisbane Festival from 2010 - 2014. His career in the performing arts has been extensive, working in various high level production and technical positions throughout the UK and Australia, including Glyndebourne Festival Opera, ENO, as technical director for the legendary Goodall Ring  and technical director at Opera Australia. He has also toured productions extensively throughout Europe and the United States. He produced the first Australian Ring Cycle in Adelaide and was previously the CEO of Sydney Dance Company. He produced La Boheme for Baz Luhrmann on Broadway.   

Venue: 
Goethe Institut, Event Hall (upstairs)
90 Ocean Street (cnr Jersey Road)
Woollahra  

Admission:
Just pay by cash or card at the door:
$25 members / $35 non-members / $10 full-time students including refreshments / drinks / afternoon tea

Members of the public are most welcome!

WAGNER SOCIETY EVENTS IN 2023

 

Sunday 
29 January

12pm: DVD - Sing Faster, The Stagehands' Ring
 
2.00pm: Esteban Insausti [President, WSNSW] was at the Goethe Institut in conversation with Suzanne Chaundy [Director] & Andrew Bailey [Designer], who were live on video from Melbourne, about the creative ideas behind the staging of Melbourne Opera's Ring Cycle in Bendigo in 2023

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Goethe Institut

Sunday
26 February
12pm: DVD - Global Wagner - From Bayreuth to the World - A film by Axel Brüggemann 2.00pm: Recorded conversation from Melbourne with Maestro Anthony Negus [Conductor & Musical Director] & his wife Carmen Jakobi [chief German language coach for the Ring], moderated by Robert MacFarlane (the Mime in the Bendigo Ring), about preparing the young musicians for Melbourne Opera's Ring Cycle in Bendigo in 2023

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Goethe Institut
Sunday
12 March
12pm: DVD -  Richard Strauss - At the End of the Rainbow - A Film by Eric Schulz 2.00pm: Talk by Peter Bassett [Wagner author and dramaturg] on A new look at the Ring

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Goethe Institut

April

 

No event because of the Bendigo Ring

 

 
Sunday
21 May
No DVD

12.30pm: Annual General Meeting [financial members only]

2.00pm: Wagner's birthday concert: a program of music by Wagner and others from sopranos Ellen McNeil and Olivia Swain, accompanied by Katherine Day

Followed by Wagner's champagne birthday celebrations

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Robert Mitchell’s house, Newtown
Sunday
18 June
12.30pm: DVD - Frozen Music The Sydney Opera House, It’s more than just opera 
                                                               
2.00pm: A conversation with Noel Staunton, veteran of many Ring productions including the 2004 Adelaide Ring. Details Goethe Institut
WEDNESDAY
12 July
no DVD

7.00pm – 9.00pm: Reception for our Patron Maestro Simone Young AM

 

St Columba Community Centre

Sunday 
30 July
no DVD

2.00pm: Recital by bass baritone Chris Curcuruto

  St Columba Community Centre
Sunday
20 August
12.30pm: DVD - Magic Fire – The Richard Wagner Story                                                              

2.00pm: Tahu Matheson, OA conductor, talks to us about the Ring.

  Goethe Institut
Sunday
17 September
12.30pm: DVD - The Edge of the Possible 2.00pm: Talk by Constantine Costi, Assistant Director of the Brisbane Ring  TBC   Goethe Institut
Sunday 
22 October
12.30pm: DVD - SOH Opening Concert 2.00pm  Talk by Mike Day, A Tale of Three Houses – Paris, Bayreuth and Sydney   Goethe Institut
Sunday
12 November
no DVD

10.00.am – 5.00pm Das Rheingold Seminar

  Goethe Institut
Sunday 
26 November
no DVD

2.00pm: Concert and Christmas party

  TBA