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PROGRAM COVERS 2021 – 2026: from the programs by Esteban Insausti [WSNSW President] – for full program, see event
WAGNER’S BIRTHDAY CELEBRATIONS
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OUT & ABOUT IN 2026
4 FEBRUARY 2026: Talk by Dr Thomas Launius on ‘Parsifal’: The Mythological Sources of the Masterpiece – via zoom
8 FEBRUARY 2026: Talk by mezzo-soprano Deborah Humble on how to learn an opera score
1 MARCH 2026: Talk by Mike Day on Wagner’s painter contemporaries
1 MARCH 2026: Wagner’s painter contemporaries – slideshow
29 MARCH 2026: Talk by Toby Wong on the upcoming Shaumet Music ‘Das Rheingold’
19 APRIL 2026: AGM + talk by Dr Antony Ernst: ‘Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg’ is not the comedy you think it is
22 APRIL 2026: Talk by F. Peter Phillips on the book ‘Performing Wagner: A Singer’s Perspective on the Major Tenor Roles’ – via zoom
6 MAY 2026: Talk by Belgian bass Tijl Faveyts on his life with singing Wagner – via zoom
17 MAY 2026: Wagner’s birthday concert with Warwick Fyfe with Lee Abrahmsen, & Glenn Amer at the piano
17 June 2026: Talk by Dr Thomas Launius on ‘Parsifal’: How Wagner developed his own mythic storyline – via zoom
21 JUNE 2026: Chris Sorrell’s presentation on early Wagner recordings on Cylinder & Disk
9 JULY 2026: Talk about ‘Tristan und Isolde’: Whose love story? by Christopher Cook – via zoom
19 JULY 2026: Talk by Professor Peter Roennfeldt: Wagner and Schumann – Parallels and Mutual Influences
2 AUGUST 2026: Life, Love and Opera – a concert, with Laura Scandizzo, Brad Cooper, Jane Ede, Bradley Gilchrist, Eleanor Greenwood, Jessica Harper, Michael Lampard, Kent McIntosh & Eugene Raggio
16 AUGUST 2026: Talk by Dr Sarah Penicka-Smith on The Future of Opera, & What Wagner Has To Do With It
13 SEPTEMBER 2026: Talk by Associate Professor Ross Anderson on Adolphe Appia & Wagner
11 OCTOBER 2026: “Wanderlust, Songs of Longing, Exile and Homecoming” – a recital by Deborah Humble & Sharolyn Kimmorley AM
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OUT & ABOUT IN 2025
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: Part 2 of a lecture by Dr John Mastrogiovanni on ‘Parsifal – The Conscious Redeemer’ – via zoom
12 MARCH 2025: Mirko Roschkowski in conversation – via zoom
23 MARCH 2025: ‘Parsifal Reanalysed’ by Emeritus Professor Colin Mackerras AO
13 APRIL 2025: AGM + ‘The Reawakening of the Giants – Hermann Ritter and his Viola Alta‘ by SSO Principal Violist Tobias Breider & pianist Susanne Powell
7 MAY 2025: Margaret Plummer on her career – via zoom
25 MAY 2025: Wagner’s birthday concert with soprano Livia Brash, bass baritone Eugene Raggio & pianist Thomas Victor Johnson, followed by Wagner’s birthday celebrations
22 JUNE 2025: Associate Professor Stephen Mould on Carlo Felice Cillario & Wagner
20 JULY 2025: Talk by Professor Carole M Cusack on ‘Tortured Immortality Redeemed by Love: Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman and Parsifal’
17 AUGUST 2025: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s ‘Parsifal’
14 SEPTEMBER 2025: WSNSW 45th Anniversary Celebration Concert with Alexandra Flood & Thomas Victor Johnson
12 OCTOBER 2025: Traditional vs Iconoclastic stagings of ‘Die Meistersinger von Nürenberg’, by Esteban Instausti
15 NOVEMBER 2025: ‘Siegfried’ Symposiu5
30 NOVEMBER 2024: Christmas Concert with Brad Cooper & Thomas Victor Johnson, & Party
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 on ‘Wagner & Britain’ – via zoom
19 MAY 2024: Concert with Valda Wilson, Eugene Raggio, Katherine Day & Thomas Johnson, & Wagner’s birthday celebrations
25 MAY 2024: SUSO Concert ‘Music for the Stage’ with Laura Scandizzo, whom WSNSW sponsored
16 JUNE 2024: Alex Ross in conversation about ‘Joyce & Wagner on Bloomsday’ – via zoom, & AGM
26 JUNE 2024: Part 1 of a lecture by Dr John Mastrogiovanni on ‘Parsifal: The Conscious Redeemer’ – via zoom
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 & 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 about the Bendigo Ring with Robert MacFarlane
12 MARCH 2023: Peter Bassett on ‘A new look at the Ring’
21 MAY 2023: AGM, Annual Wagner Birthday Concert with Ellen McNeil, Olivia Swain & Katherine Day, & celebrations
18 JUNE 2023: A conversation with Noel Staunton
12 JULY 2023: A reception for our Patron Maestro Simone Young AM
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 on ‘Marjorie Lawrence: The World at her Feet’ – via zoom
30 JANUARY 2022: Concert with Rebecca MacCallion, Bronwyn Douglass & Bradley Kunda
20 FEBRUARY 2022: Robert Gay on ‘The impact of French Grand Opera on the works of Verdi & Wagner’
2 MARCH 2022: Christopher Cook on ‘Amfortas! Die Wunde … Two Wounded Disciples’ – via zoom
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 on Tristan in Aix
10 APRIL 2022: Peter Bassett on ‘Hurry away then, toward the East’
1 MAY 2022: Part 1 of 1924 film ‘Siegfried’ by Fritz Lang
4 MAY 2022: Erica Miner on Wagner & Berlioz – via zoom
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 on ‘French Grand Opera & its impact on the Works of Verdi & Wagner’
13 NOVEMBER 2022: Concert 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’
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 on ‘Wagnerism after Alex Ross’ – via zoom
18 APRIL 2021: Professor Thea Brejzek on ‘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 on his book ‘Curating Opera’ – via zoom
12 SEPTEMBER 2021: Conversation with Anna-Louise Cole – via zoom
10 OCTOBER 2021: Dr Rachel Orzech on ‘France’s Wagner 1840s to WWI’ – via zoom
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 AND 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
MEMBERS AND FRIENDS OUT AND ABOUT IN THE 1980s & 90s
