15 February | 12.30pm: DVD - BBC Great Composers: Wagner |
2pm: Russia and Wagner 1841-1941 by Dr Rosamund Bartlett [British writer, scholar, lecturer, and translator specialising in Russian literature] | Goethe Institut | |
10 March | 12.30pm: DVD - Part 2 of Der Fliegende Holländer |
2pm: Presentation by Dr Heath Lees [an academic, musicologist, broadcaster and the founder of the Wagner Society of New Zealand] placing his film Wagner's Ring: A Tale told in Music against the existing 100-year gallery of Wagner film |
Goethe Institut | |
29 March |
2pm: Recital by Deborah Humble [international mezzo soprano and Erda in the Melbourne Ring] |
Goethe Institut | ||
19 April |
2pm: Concert of Wagner & Strauss by recipients of various Wagner awards - German, eisteddfod and Lisa Gasteen National Opera School: |
Program | Goethe Institut | |
25 May |
2pm: - AGM - Recital by Christopher Richardson |
Program | Goethe Institut | |
14 June |
12.30pm: Exploring Tristan und Isolde: a workshop by Dr David Larkin |
Program | Goethe Institut | |
21 June |
3pm: A special occasion to celebrate the SSO performances of Tristan und Isolde on 20 and 22 June, hosted by the Wagner Society in NSW, and including members of the Victorian and the Queensland Wagner Societies. Conductor David Robertson spoke about the experience of conducting Tristan. |
Invitation | Goethe Institut | |
12 July | 12.30pm: DVD - Act 1 of Lohengrin with Kaufmann | 2pm: Directing Wagner - a Q&A session by Sir David McVicar, opera and theatre director | Goethe Institut | |
9 August | 2pm: Talk by Carolyn Watson [Australian conductor based in the United States since 2013] on conductor Carlos Kleiber, and Kleiber's Tristan und Isolde. | Goethe Institut | ||
13 September | 12.30pm: DVD - Act 2 of Lohengrin with Kaufmann | 2pm: Composers today: Wagner's legacy by Andrew Ford, composer, writer and broadcaster. This event had to be cancelled at short notice. | Goethe Institut | |
11 October | 12.30pm: DVD - Act 3 of Lohengrin with Kaufmann | 2pm: The Melbourne Ring: Looking back by Neil Armfield, director | Goethe Institut | |
22 November |
2pm: - Christmas concert:
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Video of Heimliches Lieben (Secret Love) by Franz Schubert | Glebe Justice Centre |