Wagner Society events held in 2022

 

WEDNESDAY
ZOOM
19 January
  7.00pm [AEDT]: Documentary film makers Wayne Groom and Dr Carolyn Bilsborow talked to us from Adelaide about and showed excerpts from their latest production Marjorie Lawrence: The World at her Feet

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SUNDAY
30 January
 

2.00pm [AEDT]: Recital by Rebecca MacCallion [soprano], Bronwyn Douglass [soprano] and Bradley Kunda [pianist] with Lieder by composers including Brahms, Wolf, Wagner, Berg, Marx and Richard Strauss

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Mosman Art Gallery
SUNDAY
20 February
 

1.30pm [AEDT]: Talk by Robert Gay [teacher of music history courses and leader of international musical and cultural tours] on The impact of French Grand Opera on the works of Verdi & Wagner

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Goethe Institut, Woollahra
WEDNESDAY
ZOOM
2 March
   

7.00pm [AEDT]: Talk by Christopher Cook [BBC broadcaster from Deal, England], via zoom on Amfortas! Die Wunde ... Two Wounded Disciples: The post-Christian world of Parsifal and the curious symbiosis between Amfortas and Klingsor

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by Zoom
SUNDAY
13 March

 

2.00pm [AEDT]: Masterclass with Christina Henson Hayes [Warwick Fyfe's vocal coach] & Bradley Gilchrist [pianist], featuring Ellen McNeil [Jane Mathews AO / PO scholarship holder], Nathan Bryon & Damien Noyce [WSNSW funded], Paul McLeod [WSNSW member] and Michael James, Anita de Lisen & Ashlee Woodgate [students of Christina Henson Hayes]with guests of honour Warwick Fyfe [Helden Bass Baritone] and Ruth Frances

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St Columba Community Centre,
Woollahra
SUNDAY
 27 March

12.30pm [AEDT]:
DVD
Silent Wagner

 

2.00pm [AEDT]: Talk by Ralph Myers [Designer of the Aix en Provence Tristan und Isolde] on Isolde in Aix

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Goethe Institut,
Woollahra
      

SUNDAY
10 April

12.30pm [AEST]: 
DVD
Die Feen
A delightful children’s version

2.00pm [AEST]: Talk by Peter Bassett [Wagner author and dramaturg] on Hurry away then, towards the East

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Goethe Institut,
Woollahra

SUNDAY
1 May
   

1.30pm [AEST]: DVD of Fritz Lang’s masterpiece Siegfried

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Goethe Institut,
Woollahra

WEDNESDAY
ZOOM
4 May
  12.30pm [AEST]: Erica Miner [Award winning author, scriptwriter, lecturer and journalist] talked to us from Seattle about Wagner and Berlioz

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by Zoom
SUNDAY
29 May
  1.00pm [AEST]: AGM (Financial members only)

2.00pm: Concert by Brad Cooper [tenor], Jane Ede [principal soprano for Opera Australia] & Bradley Gilchrist [pianist]

3.30pm: Wagner’s Birthday Celebrations

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St Columba Community Centre,
Woollahra
SUNDAY
26 June
 

2.00pm [AEST]: DVD - Marjorie Lawrence: the World at her Feet by documentary film makers Wayne Groom and Dr Carolyn Bilsborow

Report Goethe Institut,
Woollahra

  SUNDAY
31 July

 

2.00pm [AEST]: Concert with Rebecca MacCallion [soprano], Nathan Bryon [tenor], Daniel Macey [baritone] and Bradley Gilchrist [pianist]

Valda Wilson was not be able to sing at this concert due to illness. At very short notice, Rebecca MacCallion agreed to sing in Valda’s place. 

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St Columba Community Centre,
Woollahra

SUNDAY
18 September

  2.00pm [AEST]: Robert Gay [teacher of music history courses and leader of international musical and cultural tours] continued his talk on French Grand Opera

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Goethe Institut,
Woollahra

SUNDAY
13 November


 

2.00pm [AEDT]: Concert with Jessica Harper [soprano]Joseph Eisinger [cellist] 
& Bradley Gilchrist [pianist]
A selection of Germanic repertoire, including Lieder, arias & cello transcriptions by Wagner, Weber, Liszt and Strauss

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Video of 'Morgen'

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St Columba Community Centre,
Woollahra

SUNDAY
27 November
  2.00pm [AEDT]: Christmas Party & Wagner Reiseberichte

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Robert Mitchell’s residence, Newtown