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MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OUT & ABOUT IN 2025
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OUT & ABOUT IN 2025 – AT MELBOURNE OPERA’S MEISTERSINGER
19 JANUARY 2025: Ben Woodward on Regents Opera’s upcoming Ring Cycle – via zoom
29 JANUARY 2025: Suzanne Chaundy on Melbourne Opera’s upcoming Meistersinger – via zoom
2 FEBRUARY 2025: Robert Gay’s extended presentation on Cosima Wagner
12 FEBRUARY 2025: Dr John Mastrogiovanni’s lecture on ‘Parsifal’, part 2 – via zoom
12 MARCH 2025: Mirko Roschkowski in conversation – via zoom
23 MARCH 2025: ‘Parsifal Reanalysed’ by Emeritus Professor Colin Mackerras AO
COMING – 13 APRIL 2025: ‘The Reawakening of the Giants – Hermann Ritter and his Viola Alta‘ by SSO Principal Violist Tobias Breider & pianist Susanne Powell
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OUT & ABOUT IN 2024
11 FEBRUARY 2024: Discussion of the Brisbane Ring led by Warwick Fyfe
21 FEBRUARY 2024: Conversation with Alexandra Steiner via zoom
10 MARCH 2024: Simon O’Neill on his life with Wagner
20 MARCH 2024: Christopher Cook via zoom about Wagner & Britain
19 MAY 2024: Concert with Valda Wilson, Eugene Raggio, Katherine Day & Thomas Johnson
19 MAY 2024: Wagner’s birthday celebration
25 MAY 2024: SUSO Concert ‘Music for the Stage’ with Laura Scandizzo
16 JUNE 2024: Alex Ross in conversation via zoom about Joyce & Wagner on Bloomsday; & AGM
26 JUNE 2024: Talk via zoom by Dr John Mastrogiovanni on ‘Parsifal: The Conscious Redeemer’
14 JULY 2024: Conversation with Simon Meadows
28 JULY 2024: Conversation with Michael Scott-Mitchell & Nick Schlieper about the 2004 Adelaide Ring
18 AUGUST 2024: ‘Love, Law & Power in Die Walküre’ by Dr Antony Ernst
29 SEPTEMBER 2024: Dr Geoffrey Seidel on ‘Lola Montez: from Spain to Sydney via Saxony’
10 NOVEMBER 2024: ‘Die Walküre’ Symposium
16 NOVEMBER 2024: Reception before ‘Die Walküre’
1 DECEMBER 2024: Christmas concert & party, with Amanda Windred, Celeste Haworth & Yerim Lee
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OUT & ABOUT IN 2023
MEMBERS & FRIENDS OUT AND ABOUT IN 2023 – AT MELBOURNE OPERA’S BENDIGO RING CYCLE
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OUT AND ABOUT IN 2023 – AT OPERA AUSTRALIA’S BRISBANE RING CYCLE
29 JANUARY 2023: Suzanne Chaundy & Andrew Bailey in conversation about the Bendigo Ring live from Melbourne
26 FEBRUARY 2023: Video of Maestro Anthony Negus & Carmen Jakobi in conversation with Robert MacFarlane
12 MARCH 2023: Peter Bassett – A new look at the Ring
21 MAY 2023: AGM, Annual Wagner Birthday Concert & celebrations
18 JUNE 2023: A conversation with Noel Staunton
12 JULY 2023: A reception for our patron Maestro Simone Young AM
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30 JULY 2023: Concert by Christopher Curcuruto, Kori Miller & Katherine Day
20 AUGUST 2023: A talk by Tahu Matheson on Wagner’s musical development
17 SEPTEMBER 2023: ‘Wagner’s childhood and adolescence 1813-1830’ by Dr Terence Watson
22 OCTOBER 2023: A Tale of Three Houses – Paris, Bayreuth & Sydney – by Mike Day
12 NOVEMBER 2023: ‘Das Rheingold’ Symposium
26 NOVEMBER 2023: Recital by Adrian Tamburini & Katherine Day, & Christmas party
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OUT & ABOUT IN 2022
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OUT & ABOUT IN 2022 – AT MELBOURNE OPERA’S ‘DIE WALKÜRE’ & ‘SIEGFRIED IN CONCERT’
19 JANUARY 2022: Dr Carolyn Bilsborow & Wayne Groom via zoom – ‘Marjorie Lawrence: The World at her Feet’
30 JANUARY 2022: Recital with Rebecca MacCallion, Bronwyn Douglass & Bradley Kunda
20 FEBRUARY 2022: Robert Gay – The impact of French Grand Opera on the works of Verdi & Wagner
2 MARCH 2022: Christopher Cook, via zoom – ‘Amfortas! Die Wunde … Two Wounded Disciples’
13 MARCH 2022: Masterclass by Christina Henson Hayes with Bradley Gilchrist – Ellen McNeil, Nathan Bryon, Damien Noyce, Paul McLeod & Michael James, Anita de Lisen, Ashlee Woodgate.
27 MARCH 2022: Talk by Ralph Myers – Tristan in Aix
10 APRIL 2022: Peter Bassett – ‘Hurry away then, toward the East’
1 MAY 2022: Part 1 of 1924 film ‘Siegfried’ – by Fritz Lang
4 MAY 2022: Erica Miner via zoom – Wagner & Berlioz
29 MAY 2022: AGM, Concert with Brad Cooper, Jane Ede & Bradley Gilchrist, & Wagner’s Birthday celebrations
31 JULY 2022: Concert with Rebecca MacCallion, Nathan Bryon, Daniel Macey & Bradley Gilchrist
18 SEPTEMBER 2022: Part 2 of talk by Robert Gay – ‘French Grand Opera & its impact on the Works of Verdi & Wagner’
13 NOVEMBER 2022: Recital with Jessica Harper, Joseph Eisinger & Bradley Gilchrist
27 NOVEMBER 2022: Christmas Party & Wagner Reiseberichte
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OUT & ABOUT IN 2021
MEMBERS OUT AND ABOUT IN 2021 – AT MELBOURNE OPERA’S ‘DAS RHEINGOLD’
PROGRAM COVERS 2021 ONWARDS: from the programs by Esteban Insausti [WSNSW President]
28 JANUARY 2021: Conversation with Susan Bullock CBE via zoom
11 FEBRUARY 2021: Conversation with Lise Lindstrom via zoom
7 MARCH 2021: ‘Wagner at 40’ concert with Laura Scandizzo, Cedar-Rose Newman & Bradley Gilchrist
21 MARCH 2021: Professor Heath Lees via zoom – ‘Wagnerism after Alex Ross’
18 APRIL 2021: Professor Thea Brejzek – ‘Adolphe Appia & the Emergence of Scenography’
23 MAY 2021: Wagner-Liszt piano recital by Tamara-Anna Cislowska – celebratING 40 years since Wagner lovers met in Bayreuth & agreed to start a Wagner Society in Australia, & Wagner’s birthday
6 JUNE 2021: Alex Ross in conversation with Dr David Larkin about Alex’s book ‘Wagnerism, Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music’, via zoom
11 JULY 2021: AGM via zoom
8 AUGUST 2021: Stephen Mould via zoom on his book ‘Curating Opera’
12 SEPTEMBER 2021: Conversation with Anna-Louise Cole via zoom
10 OCTOBER 2021: Dr Rachel Orzech via zoom – ‘France’s Wagner 1840s to WWI’
28 NOVEMBER 2021: ‘Ariadne’s Christmas Thread’ with Pamela Andrews, Emily Turner, Jill Sullivan & Michael Curtain, & Christmas party
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OUT & ABOUT IN 2020
EVENTS IN 2020
MEMBERS & FRIENDS OUT & ABOUT IN 2019
EVENTS IN 2019
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OUT & ABOUT IN 2018
EVENTS IN 2018
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OUT & ABOUT IN 2017
EVENTS IN 2017
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OUT & ABOUT IN THE EARLY 2000s
SOME WAGNER SOCIETY EVENTS IN THE EARLY 2000s
Art by Elizabeth Gordon-Werner – Wagner Society artist in residence in 2010s
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OUT AND ABOUT IN THE 1980s & 90s
