One of the Society’s aims is to support emerging Wagnerian performers from NSW and Wagnerian productions in Australia.
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Supporting emerging Wagnerian performers from NSW
One recent recipient of support from the Wagner Society in NSW Inc is dramatic soprano Laura Scandizzo for her performance of ‘Liebestod’ from Wagner’s ‘Tristan und Isolde’ in Sydney University Symphony Orchestra’s Music for the Stage Concert on Saturday 25 May 2025, conducted by Luke Spicer. You can view her performance in Part 2 of the concert here, as well as the Prelude to ‘Tristan und Isolde’ and Tchaikovski’s ‘Swan Lake Suite’.
Supporting Melbourne Opera
In 2021 and 2022, the Wagner Society donated four Wagner tubas to Melbourne Opera for its production of the ‘Ring Cycle’.
Wagner Society in NSW members L-R: Tim Green, Robert Mitchell, Esteban Insausti, Agnes Brejzek, Barbara De Rome & Melbourne Opera brass players with Wagner tubas L-R: Stuart McGregor (Bass Tuba 1), Tom Campbell (Tenor Tuba 1), Josiah Kop (Bass Tuba 2) & Tim Hannah (Tenor Tuba 2) at ‘Die Walküre’, 13 February 2022 [photo, Ruth Francis].
And in February 2024, the Wagner Society in NSW sponsored Warwick Fyfe and Debora Humble in Melbourne Opera’s ‘Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg’:
