Program covers 2021-2026
from the programs by Esteban Insausti, WSNSW President
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7 March 2021: ‘Wagner at 40’ concert Program cover [program by Esteban Insausti]
23 May 2021: Wagner-Liszt Piano Recital By Tamara-Anna Cislowska
28 November 2021: ‘Ariadne’s Christmas Thread’ & Our Christmas Party
20 January 2022: Lieder Recital by Rebecca MacCallion, Bronwyn Douglass and Bradley Kunda
20 February 2022: ‘The impact of French Grand Opera on the works of Verdi & Wagner’ by Robert Gay
13 March 2022: Masterclass with Christina Henson Hayes
27 March 2022: ‘Tristan in Aix’ by Ralph Myers
10 April 2022: ‘Hurry away then towards the East’ by Peter Bassett
1 May 2022: Fritz Lang’s film ‘Siegfried’
29 May 2022: AGM, Concert with Brad Cooper, Jane Ede & Bradley Gilchrist, and Wagner’s birthday celebrations
31 July 2022: Recital by Rebecca MacCallion, Nathan Bryon, Daniel Macey & Bradley Gilchrist
18 September 2022: Part 2 of Robert Gay’s talk on ‘French Grand Opera and its impact on Wagner and Verdi’
16 November 2022: Concert with Jessica Harper, Joseph Eisinger & Bradley Gilchrist
29 January 2023: Suzanne Chaundy & Andrew Bailey in conversation with Esteban Insausti
26 February 2023: Maestro Anthony Negus & Carmen Jakobi in conversation with Robert MacFarlane
12 March 2023: Talk by Peter Bassett on ‘A new look at the Ring’
21 May 2023: AGM, Annual Wagner Birthday Concert & celebrations
18 June 2023: In conversation with Noel Staunton
30 July 2023: Concert with Christopher Curcuruto, Kori Miller & Katherine Day
20 August 2023: Talk by Tahu Matheson, pianist, conductor & OA’s Head of Music, on Wagner’s musical development
17 September 2023: Talk by Dr Terence Watson, a long standing member of WSNSW, about Wagner’s childhood and adolescence
12 November 2023: ‘Das Rheingold’ Symposium
26 November 2023: Recital by Adrian Tamburini & Katherine Day, & Christmas party
11 February 2024: Discussion of Brisbane Ring led by Warwick Fyfe
10 March 2024: Heldentenor Simon O’Neill on his life with Wagner
19 May 2024: Wagner’s birthday concert with Valda Wilson, Eugene Raggio, Katherine Day & Thomas Johnson
16 June 2024: Alex Ross in conversation about Joyce & Wagner on Bloomsday
14 July 2024: Australian baritone Simon Meadows in conversation with Esteban Insausti
28 July 2024: Conversation with production/set designer Michael Scott-Mitchell & lighting designer Nick Schlieper about the 2004 Adelaide Ring
18 August 2024: ‘Love, Law and Power in Die Walküre’ by Dr Antony Ernst
29 September 2024: ‘Lola Montez – From Spain to Sydney via Saxony’
10 November 2024: Symposium on Die Walküre
1 December 2024: Christmas concert & party
2 February 2025: Robert Gay on Guarding the legacy: Cosima in Bayreuth 1883-1906
23 March 2025: Parsifal Reanalysed by Prof Colin Mackerras
13 April 2025: AGM + The Reawakening of the Giants – Hermann Ritter and his Viola Alta – talk & presentation by SSO Principal Violist Tobias Breider & pianist Susanne Powell
25 May 2025: AGM & Wagner’s birthday concert
22 June 2025: Stephen Mould on Carlo Felice Cillario & Wagner
20 July 2025: Tortured Immortality Redeemed by Love: Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman & Parsifal – talk by Professor Carole M Cusack
17 August 2025: Hans-Jürgen Syberberg’s Parsifal
14 September 2025: WSNSW 45TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONCERT
30 November 2025: Christmas concert & party
8 February 2026: Deborah Humble on how to learn an opera score
1 March 2026: Wagner’s painter contemporaries, by Mike Day
29 March 2026: Talk by conductor Toby Wong about the Shaumet Music ‘Das Rheingold’
22 April 2026: Talk by Dr Antony Ernst on Meistersinger
17 May 2026: Wagner’s birthday concert
21 June: Chris Sorrell’s presentataion on early Wagner recordings on cylinder & disk
19 July 2026: Professor Peter Roennfeldt’s talk on Wagner and Schumann – Parallels and Mutual Influences
2 August 2026: Life, Love & Opera – a concert
16 August 2026: Talk by conductor Sarah Penicka-Smith – The Future of Opera and what Wagner has to do with it
