WAGNER SOCIETY EVENTS IN 2025

 

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COMING EVENTS
As at 16 January 2025
Starting times and venues may vary so please check this webpage closer to the dates.

  JANUARY    

ZOOM:
Sunday
19 January


7.00pm [AEDT]: Director of Regents Opera Ben Woodward talks about
the slimmed down Regents Opera Ring Cycle

Details

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via zoom

WEDNESDAY
ZOOM:
29 January

7.00pm [AEDT]: Opera and theatre director Suzanne Chaundy talks about Melbourne Opera's production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

Details

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via zoom
  FEBRUARY    
     Sunday         2 February no DVD 2.00pm: Robert Gay returns to give his talk Guarding the legacy: Cosima in Bayreuth 1883-1906  Details Goethe Institut*

WEDNESDAY  ZOOM:
12 February

12.00 noon [AEDT]: Dr John Mastrogiovanni, Wagner Society of Southern Califormia Chairman, returns to give part 2 of his zoom talk on Parsifal: The Will and Redemption 

Details via zoom
  MARCH    

WEDNESDAY ZOOM:
12 March

5.00pm: Talk by German tenor Mirko Roschkowski

  via zoom

Sunday
23 March

DVD - TBA

2.00pm: Professor Colin Mackerras, Vice President of The Wagner Society in Queensland, delivers Parsifal Reanalysed

  Goethe Institut*
  APRIL    
Sunday
13 April

12.30pm: DVD -  Richard Strauss’ Elektra with Birgit Nilsson and James Levine from the MET

  Goethe Institut*
  MAY    
WEDNESDAY ZOOM:
7 May

12.00 noon [AEST]: Australian mezzo-soprano, Margaret Plummer, talks to us in a Zoom Event [TBC]

  via zoom
Sunday
25 May
AGM - TBC

2.00pm: WAGNER’S BIRTHDAY CONCERT

  Goethe Institut*
  JUNE    
Sunday
22 June

12.00 noon: DVD - La Fura Dels Baus’ Valencia RING highlights 

2.00pm: Dr Stephen Mould on his new book on Carlo Felice Cillario 

  Goethe Institut*
  JULY    
Sunday
20 July
DVD - TBA

2.00pm: Talk by Professor Carole Cusack, Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Sydney

  Goethe Institut*
  AUGUST    
Sunday
17 August
DVD - TBA 2.00pm: Professor Raymond Holden AM from the Royal College of Music on Master’s Apprentices   Goethe Institut*
  SEPTEMBER    
Sunday
14 September


2.00pm: WSNSW 45TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION CONCERT

Expect surprises.

 

St Columba*

  OCTOBER    
Sunday
12 October
DVD - TBA 2.00pm: Talk by star mezzo-soprano Deborah Humble   Goethe Institut*
  NOVEMBER    
Saturday
15 November

10.00am until 4.00pm: SIEGFRIED SYMPOSIUM [speakers TBA]

The SSO's concert version of Siegfried is on 13 and 16 November.

  venue TBA
Sunday
30 November
2.00pm: CHRISTMAS CONCERT & PARTY   St Columba*

* Venues:

Goethe Institut
Event Hall (upstairs)
90 Ocean Street (cnr Jersey Road)
Woollahra NSW

St Columba Community Centre
53A Ocean Street (cnr Forth Street)
Woollahra NSW