June/July 2022: At the Wagner Festival in Leipzig. From left: Jenny Ferns [34], Robert Thurling [830], Pauline Holgerson [863], Ira Kowalski [536], Terence Watson [657], Barbara Brady [380], Julie Clarke [496], John Hughes [1199], Ursula Armstrong [1061], Terry Clarke [496], Dr Lourdes St George [895], John Barrer [1227] & Martin Armstrong [1061]

Antipodeans at Bayreuth Cycle III, 2022: From left: James Poole (WSSingapore), Garry Richards (WSNSW-ACT 366), John Meyer (WSWA), Esteban Insausti (WSNSW 433), Simon Whitaker (WSNSW), Gavin Crank (WSNSW 1193) & Ross Whitelaw (WSNSW 527).

WSNSW President Esteban Insausti [433] before the performance of ‘Der fliegende Holländer’ at Bayreuth.

14 September 2022: Julie Clarke with Catherine Foster & Deborah Humble – performance of Victorian Opera’s ‘Elektra’ [photo, Julie Clarke]

25 September 2022: At a dinner following ‘Siegfried in Concert’, L-R: Anthony Negus [conductor], Catherine Foster [Erda], David Feighan (WS Vic), John Studdert [696] & Robert Mitchell [1014] [photo, Julie Clarke]

August/September 2022: Member Justice Francois Kunc [999] was at ‘Die Walkyrie’ by the Finnish National Opera [photo, Justice Kunc]

August/September 2022: Interior of the theatre in the Finnish Opera House [photo, Justice Kunc]

August/September 2022: Finnish Wagner Society stall in the foyer [photo, Justice Kunc]

20 November 2022: One of our members, Mezzo Fleuranne Brockway [1250], won the Bel Canto Award from the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Foundation.

L-r: Mark Coure MP, Leona Geeves, Felicity Wilson MP. Leona Geeves recently received a Senior Achievement Award from Felicity Wilson MP, Member for North Shore, for “her tireless volunteer work and passion for history, heritage preservation, music, and the artistic life of our local community”.