Auckland Program

Music Theatre, School of Music, 6 Symonds Street

Sunday 18 February

7:30pm

Tristan und Isolde: Act I

Sunday 22 April

7:30pm

Tristan und Isolde: Acts II & III

Sunday 20 May

7:30pm

Annual General Meeting, "Happy Birthday" to Richard Wagner plus "Ring Things"

Sunday 15 July

7:30pm

Cancelled. July meeting rescheduled to 22 July below.

Sunday 22 July

7:30pm

A talk by a distinguished visitor: Professor, Hans Vagnet "Wagnerian Self-fashioning: Rienzi and the case of Adolf Hitler".

Sunday 19 August

7:30pm

Parsifal: Wolfgang's Wagner's 1981 Bayrueth production. Short Introduction and complete performance with dinner during the intervals.

Sunday 7 October**

7:30pm

Heath Lees explores Wagner's early musical roots in "Weber and Der Freischütz"

Sunday 25 November**

7:30pm

The complete film Sing Faster,and an interview with NZ soprano Maria Treadaway,a chorus-member in the 2001 Bayreuth season .

Wellington Program

Room B207, Victoria University School of Music

Sunday 25 February

7:30pm

"A Voyage Round the Flying Dutchman (Heath Lees)

Sunday 25 March

7:30pm

The Flying Dutchman (Complete showing - Bayreuth production)

Sunday 27 May

7:30pm

Wagneriana: from the sublime to the hilarious... Heath Lees introduces...

Urban Health Theatre. Cnr. Johnston St & Customhouse Quay

Sunday 29 July

7:30pm

Syberberg's Parsifal (Part 1)

Sunday 26 August

7:30pm

Syberberg's Parsifal (Part 2)

Sunday 25 November**

7:30pm

Massey Thearette, Buckle Street Museum Tannhäuser. The much-acclaimed DVD of the 1982 NY Met production. (Amazon buyers awarded this DVD a five-star rating.)

Christchurch Program

In Canterbury Law School Lecture Theatre, ground floor unless stated otherwise (As usual bring BYO refreshments other than tea & coffee which will be provided)

Friday 16 February

7:30pm

Tannhaüser: introduce by Vincent Orange with substantial video exerts from the highly recommended David Adlum production.

Friday 20 April

7:30pm

John Patterson will introduce excerpts from Lohengrin. PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE & SUBJECT

Friday 1 June

7:30pm

Wagner and Wotan. A presentation by Vincent Orange

Tuesday 3 July

7:30pm

Visit from NZ baritone, Rodney Macann

Friday 24 August

7:30pm

John Ritchie: "From love-grace to love-death". Part 2 of Tristan und Isolde

Friday 28 September**

7:30pm

"Abroad with Wagner" -looking back over the 2001 Bayreuth season with Cynthia Hawes

Friday 26 October**

7:30pm

"Wagnerian Women Characters" - Jenny Lee & others

Sunday 16 December**

6:00pm

Christmas Party: ( At the Streat's house)

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   (**Updated 22 September 2001)

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