Wagner Society in NSW Inc

 

Please note that friends and guests are always welcome at Society functions.

Functions for the rest of 2010

Sunday 19 September

Programme

12:30, pre-meeting DVD, Act 1 of Lohengrin from Munich 2009 conducted by Kent Nagano with Jonas Kaufmann in the title role (as you know, he was the Lohengrin at Bayreuth this year)

 

2:00 discussion of the new Bayreuth Lohengrin production and other performances at the 2010 festival

 

2:30 Louis Garrick makes an announcement about the new Sydney Chamber Opera group

 

2:35 Recital with mezzo Anna Yun and baritone Mitchell Riley, accompanied by Jack Symonds (piano).

 

Robert Schumann- Dichterliebe, op. 48 (excerpts) (1840)

Mitchell Riley, baritone

Jack Symonds, piano

 

I. Im wunderschönen Monat Mai

II. Aus meinen Tränen sprießen

III. Die Rose, die Lilie, die Taube

IV. Wenn ich in deine Augen seh'

V. Ich will meine Seele tauchen

VI. Im Rhein, im heiligen Strome

VII. Ich grolle nicht

 

Robert Schumann- Gedichte der Königin Maria Stuart, op. 135 (1852)

Anna Yun, Mezzo-soprano

Jack Symonds, piano

 

I. Abschied von Frankreich

II. Nach der Geburt Ihres Sohnes

III. An die Königin Elisabeth

IV. Abschied von der Welt

V. Gebet

 

Franz Schubert- Die schöne Müllerin, D 795 (excerpts) (1823)

Mitchell Riley

 

VI. Der Neugierige

XVI. Die liebe Farbe

XVII. Die böse Farbe

 

from Johann Sebastian Bach- St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 (1727)

Mitchell Riley

 

Recit.- Am Abend, da es kühle war &

Aria- Mache dich, mein Herze, rein

 

This recital has been organised by Louis Garrick, and the programme compiled by Jack Symonds.

 

3:15 afternoon tea  

Sunday 24 October
Chauvel Cinema, Paddington – new production of Das Rheingold from the New York Met. Our function will be held at the Chauvel Cinema, Paddington, which will be showing a delayed broadcast of Rheingold marking the start of the new Met Ring under James Levine, in an eagerly-awaited production by Robert LePage.

Members should buy their own tickets to that performance early, through the theatre box-office, to avoid disappointment. The Society is negotiating with the management of the Chauvel with a view to having an area set aside for an after-film function for Society members. If that is not possible, we will attempt to find another location nearby.

If you have already bought a ticket for this performance at the Hayden Orpheum or Dendy Opera Quays, or for another date, please think carefully before you cancel that ticket and purchase another for the showing at the Chauvel, as it may be booked out at that time.

Please also note that the previous advertised date of Sunday 17 October no longer applies.

Sunday 21 November
2pm Goethe-Institute (preceded by an opera DVD TBA) - , and will be our Christmas Party. 

 

* Goethe-Institut address: 90 Ocean Street Woollahra (corner of Jersey Road)