Wagner Society events held in 2021

 

Celebration of the Wagner Society NSW's 40th anniversary
THURSDAY
28 January		  


8.00pm [AEST]: Susan Bullock CBE [British dramatic soprano] in conversation from London, with Dr Robert Mitchell [distinguished veteran baritone]

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THURSDAY
11 February		  

8.00pm [AEST]: Lise Lindstrom [American dramatic soprano] in conversation from London, with Dr Robert Mitchell [distinguished veteran baritone]

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Sunday
7 March		 no DVD beforehand

2.00pm [AEST]: 'Wagner at 40' Concert with soprano Laura Scandizzo [soprano], Cedar-Rose Newman [violinist] and Bradley Gilchrist [pianist]

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Concert
video pt 1

Concert
video pt 2

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 Mosman Art Gallery
1 Art Gallery Way,
Mosman
Sunday
21 March		  
4.00pm [AEST]: Professor Heath Lees [regular WS presenter] talked to us from New Zealand about Wagnerism after Alex Ross
 

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Sunday
18 April

12.30pm: DVD - 
Ludwig II castles in Bavaria  

 2.00pm [AEST]: Professor Thea Brejzek [Professor of Spatial Theory, UTS], on revolutionary Swiss stage designer Adolphe Appia and the Emergence of Scenography

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Slides

Hellerau  Festival
video

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 Goethe
Institut,
Woollahra
Sunday
 23 May		 no DVD beforehand

 


2.00pm [AEST]: Wagner-Liszt piano recital by Tamara-Anna Cislowska [Australian concert pianist] - Special event to celebrate 40 years since Wagner lovers met in Bayreuth on 26 October 1980 and agreed to start a Wagner Society in Australia

3.00pm: Wagner's birthday drinks and celebration of the Society's 40th anniversary

[Originally planned for August 2020 but rescheduled because of Covid-19 lockdowns]

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Video of  Richard King's talk

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St Columba Community 
Centre,
Woollahra
      
Sunday
6 June		  

11.00am [AEST]: Alex Ross [American music critic and author] in conversation with Dr David Larkin about his recent book Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music

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Video of conversation

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Sunday
11 July		  

1.00pm [AEST]: AGM (members only)

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Sunday 
8 August		  
2.00pm [AEST]: Stephen Mould [a Sydney-based conductor, opera coach, teacher & writer] on his book Curating Opera - reinventing the past through museums of opera and art
 

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Sunday
12 September 

 

  

2.00pm [AEST]: Anna-Louise Cole [soprano], who was due to sing Brünnhilde in the now postponed Brisbane Ring Third Cycle, in conversation with Dr Robert Mitchell

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Video of conversation

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Sunday
10 October

  


2.00pm [AEDT]: Dr Rachel Orzech [Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne], on France’s Wagner: 1840s to WWI

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Sunday
28 November		 no DVD beforehand


2.00pm [AEDT]: Ariadne's Christmas Thread - Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, R Strauss & Wagner, with Pamela Andrews [soprano], Emily Turner [soprano], Jill Sullivan [mezzo-soprano], & Michael Curtain [pianist]

Followed by Christmas party, raffle and book & CD sale

Program

Video of the full concert

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 Mosman Art Gallery
1 Art Gallery Way,
Mosman

Our program for much of the year has been affected by the Covid-19 assembly restrictions and lockdown.