Wagner Society of New Zealand

THE WAGNER SOCIETY OF NEW ZEALAND (Inc)
(Patron: Sir Donald McIntyre)

INDEX TO CURRENT NEWSLETTERS
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September 2010		September 2010 (Vol 9 No. 8) - WSNZ welcomes Peter Bassett - Wagner & German Tradition - The Tony Palmer Visit 2011 - An Update - Wagner's Mastersinger, Hitler's Siegfried - Hallé Götterdämmerung - In at Number 3 - The View from the Stage - Lisa Gasteen - Keping up with times - 2010 Programme Details - From One Extreme to Another - The LA Ring / Wagner at Longborough
July 2010		July 2010 (Vol 9 No. 7) - Early starts for Tristan and Tannhäuser - New members - The Films of Tony Palmer - Hans Sachs? - Obituary: Sherwin Sloane - Met set for new Ring - AGM - President's Report - 2010 Programme Details
May 2010		May 2010 (Vol 9 No. 6) - Tony Palmer to visit in 2011 - AGM - 23 May - Membership Secretary George Risk standing down - A Transport of Delight - Wagner and Trains - Ring around the world - Lost in Translation - $32 Million Dollar Ring - 2010 Programme Details - Obituary - Wolfgang Wagner
April 2010		April 2010 (Vol 9 No. 5) - We've got a Friend - Wagner Gala Concert in Wellington with Simon O'Neill - Simon O'Neill talks to Les Holborow about his career so far - Bayreuth Tickets - 2013 Wagner Bicentenary Competition for Composers - Wagner through the Piano - 2010 Programme Details - Obituray - Hildegard Behrens
February 2010		February 2010 (Vol 9 No. 4) - Simon O'Neill , the "best heroic tenor to emerge over the last decade" - 2010 Programme Details - SHOCK! Wild Wagnerites Wake Workers! - Der Fliegende Holländer in Adelaide - News snippets - Portuguese Wagner - a report from an International Wagner Conference
November 2009		November 2009 (Vol 9 No. 3) - Simon O'Neill records Wagner with NZSO - A report on the WSNZ trip to the Seattle Ring - La Musique de Wagner au piano - 2009 Grande Finale - Obituary: Hildegard Behrens - 2009 Programme - Wagner Society Library - New Members - Tristan und Isolde in London
September 2009		September 2009 (Vol 9 No. 2) - Classic FM - Top 10 Tenors - A New Dawn - Teatro Nacional de Sao Carlos - Wagner Scholarship - Obituaries: Sir Edward Downes, Bernd Benthaak - 2009 Programme - Bar, bar black sheep ... 7 hours full! - New Members - Lohengrin in London
July 2009		July 2009 (Vol 9 No. 1) - Wagner around the world in 2009 - Wagner news from around the world - Valencia's Palace of the Arts - Cleaning out the cupboard? - Obituary: John Matheson - 2009 Programme - Woodbird twitter? - New Members / Deaths - President's Report from the AGM
May 2009		May 2009 (Vol 8 No. 10) - Bryn Terfel tours New Zealand - Lohengrin debut for Simon O'Neill - Ring in the changes - 2009 Programme - Review: Die Feen in Paris - New Members
April 2009		April 2009 (Vol 8 No. 9) - Siegfried Jerusalem visits New Zealand - Roa Morrissey - an appreciation - Wagner New Zealand Foundation - 2009 Programme - Wagner at the Seattle Opera - Terence Dennis - The Flying Dutchman in Adelaide - New Members / Deaths
February 2009		February 2009 (Vol 8 No. 8) - 2009 - Another stimulating year - Deborah Riedel (1958 - 2008) - Wagner Briefs - The Flying Dutchman in Adelaide - 2009 Programme - A Riotous Rienzi, but still a revelation
November 2008		November 2008 (Vol 8 No. 7) - A City of Two Tails - Bayreuth 2008 - Some Reactions - Heath Lees - Shorts - Flying Dutchman, Tristan & Isolde at the movies, Wagner in the Desert - 2008-2009 Programme - Vacancy for Tresurer - The Seattle Ring 2009 - New Bayreuth Website - New Members
September 2008		September 2008 (Vol 8 No. 6) - Wagner at the Movies + Puccini, Britten & Verdi - Meistersinger Webcast - Horst Stein dies aged 80 - Heldentenor to Judge Lexus Song Quest - Helmut Pampuch 1940-2008 - Films, Flights Fathers & Phails - 2008 Programme - Happy Families - Wagner Societies in Australia - International Wagner Congress - Geneva, May 2008
July 2008		July 2008 (Vol 8 No. 5) - "Thanks to everyone......" AGM & Awards to Heath & Liz - About the new President, Chris Brodrick - New Committee, New Contacts - 2008 Programme - President's Report - Book Review - "The Greenhill Cooks" - Seattle Ring 2009 - News & Notes
May 2008		May 2008 (Vol 8 No. 4) - An end to the feud at Bayreuth - Who's Who? - Tannhauser at the office in Cologne - AGM at Auckland -25 May - Simon O'Neil continues to impress - Hopes Fade for a Revival of the Adelaide Ring - Seattle Ring 2009 - 2008 Programme - The Met's Mad March - News & Notes
March 2008		March 2008 (Vol 8 No. 3) - Double Launch for Dunedin - Wagner Society Centre Opens - Looking Back Fifteen Years On..... WSNZ Moments & Memories - 2008 Programme - Wagner Trips Overseas .. The Good & Bad news - Laser Disks - News & Notes
February 2008		February 2008 (Vol 8 No. 2) - Dunedin comes into Valkyrie View - Ring Road (Adelaide) - Gudrun Wagner (1944-2007) - Terence Dennis Recital and a Surprise Guest - 2008 Programme - Melbourne and Seattle - The Possible Dream.... - Luciano and Richard?
November 2007		November 2007 (Vol 8 No. 1) - Wagner and Liszt at the Piano - Reviews - Parsifal and Meistersinger at Bayreuth - From Russia With Wagner - Review - Tannhäuser at Sydney - Wagner in Tyrol - End of Year Programme
September 2007		September 2007 (Vol 7 No. 10) - Tannhauser - An Important Message for Members going to Sydney - News from the World of Wagner - NZ Opera Society events - Au Revior - Regine Crespin & Beverly Sills - Tannhäuser DVD Review - You Tube - Broadcast Yourself - Surround Sound Ring
July 2007		July 2007 (Vol 7 No. 9) - Dynasty - Bayreuth Styles - 2007 Calendar - Wagner and the Movies II - Mallarme and Wagner - Music and Poetic Language - AGM Report - President's Report 2006/7
May 2007		May 2007 (Vol 7 No. 8) - Wagner and the Movies - 2007 Calendar - Uncovering Wagner's Soundtracks - The Manus Ring - Margaret Medlyn & Bruce Greenfield - A Wagner Concert
March 2007		March 2007 (Vol 7 No. 7) - A Welcome Back and Thank You Concert - 2007 Calendar - Rings at Everyone's Fingertips - Frocks, Fetishes and Fantasies... - Notice of AGM (20 May 19:30, School of Music, Symonds St, Auckland) - Tour of a Lifetime - Verse and Worse - Composers With a Common Language Problem
January 2007		January 2007 (Vol 7 No. 6) - 2007 - Another Full year for WSNZ - 2007 Calendar - Aidan Lang - Background - Wagner Concerts in 2007 - Home Thoughts from Abroad - Nina Stems the Flow - Ban on Love - "Horsepower" - The WSNZ Scholarship - An evening in front of the Telly?
November 2006		November 2006 (Vol 7 No. 5) - Be in early - Overseas Wagner Events - Das Rheingold at Riga Opera Festival - Mallarme & Wagner : Music & Poetic language - Farewell .... Astrid Varnay, Elizabeth Schwarzkopf, Anna Russell and Thomas Stewart -- End of 2006 Programmes - Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch
September 2006		September 2006 (Vol 7 No. 4) - NZ Wagner Foundation Announces Its First Award - Mallarme & Wagner - Music & Poetic Language - New Wagner Journal Coming - Toronto Ring-In - Wagner & The Visual Arts - Parsifal In Frankfurt - Bayreuth as it happens - End of 2006 Programmes - Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch
July 2006		July 2006 (Vol 7 No. 3) - Wagner et La France - No Stone Unturned! - Chris Broderick recalls childhood memories - AGM - Around the Centres - Copenhagen's Feminist Ring - Background to the New Opera House - Placido Domingoes? - 2006 Programme - Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch
June 2006		June 2006 (Vol 7 No. 2) - Twelve Years On - President's Report sees a Society in Great Shape - President's Report 2005-2006 - New Zealand's Parsifal - What the Critics Said - Parsifal seen from across the Tasman - The Ring on the Amazon - 2006 Programme - Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch
April 2006		April 2006 (Vol 7 No. 1) - Extraordinary - Parsifal in Wellington - Review - Notice of 2006 AGM (21 May 2006 - Auckland) - Wagner around the World in 2006 - 2006 Programme - Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch
March 2006		March 2006 (Vol 6 No. 10) - Preparing for Parsifal in Wellington - Programmes around New Zealand for 2006 - Parsifal Through the Eyes of Kundry - From Russia with Love - Another take on Parsifal - Picturing Wagner - Another View - Ringing Changes and Changing Rings
February 2006		February 2006 (Vol 6 No. 9) - The Wagner Society in 2006 - Calender and Highlights - News from Adelaide - Parsifal Through the Eyes of Kundry - Parsifal in LA - Parsifal Snippets - Sighted the Site? - Brigit Nilsson 1918 - 2005
November 2005		November 2005 (Vol 6 No. 8) - Parsifal Through the Eyes of Kundry - The Importance of Being Erda (True Statement or Wilde Theory?) - Bayreuth 2005 - Les Holborow - Views of Wagner by Famous Artists and Others - From Russia With Love - New York Gets Ready for The Kirov Ring - Tristan in Perth - 2005 Program - End of Year Programmes
September 2005		September 2005 (Vol 6 No. 7) - Parsifal programme preparations (24 February - 19 March 2006) - Parsifal Resource Guide - On the Subject of Books - Startling New Light on the Wagner Clan - Thoughts of Aboard from Home - Chris Brodrick re London - 2005 Program - September-December
July-2 2005		July 2005 #2 Newsletter: (Vol 6 No. 6) - The New Zealand Parsifal is Coming (24 February - 19 March 2006) - Brush up your Grail Knowledge - Opera Through Camera - 2005 Program - July-December
July 2005		July 2005 Newsletter: (Vol 6 No. 5) - President's report 2004/05 - London Calling - Juliet Rowe reports on Wagner performances in London - It's all a question of taste - Die Weltsche Act 3, - Baden-Baden Parsifal - Tristan Brisbane Bound - New Director for Beyreuth Ring - 2005 Program
May 2005		May 2005 Newsletter: (Vol 6 No. 4) - World Wide Wagner (Why, When & Where) - WSoNZ AGM - Big Viola part in Tristan - Die Weltsche Act 2, - Another DVD - Royal Opera @ Royal Albert - 2005 Program
April 2005		April 2005 Newsletter: - World Wide Wagner (and some history from the Brazilian jungle) - Road to the Ring (Or, The Ring is not long enough, Part I) - Snippets - Fairy Rings? Rings True? Phone Rings? - Society News - 2005 Program - A tale of two tickets......
February 2005		February 2005 Newsletter: - 2005 Programme for Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch - Acclamation Rings Out - Chris Brodrick reports. - New Tristan book strikes the right chord - New Wagner DVD's - Engaging with the Ring - Adelaide
December 2004		December 2004 Newsletter: - Ring Review - Chris Brodrick reports. - A complete issue devoted to the recent production of The Ring in Adelaide
October 2004		October 2004 Newsletter: - A Kiwi's Eye View of Bayreuth's 2004 season - Knowing the Ropes Before Entering the Ring (Part 2 from Chris Brodrick) - Outside the Ring - Other Events in Adelaide - 2004 End of Year Events & Notices
August 2004		August 2004 Newsletter: - Catching Adelaide's Ring-Fever again - The Dutchman has set sail from Sydney - ...And Wotan has come out of retirement in England - Preparing The self for a "Ring" Cycle Part 1(Chris Brodrick) - Parsiflack and Persiflage - 2004 Events & Notices
July 2004		July 2004 Newsletter: Chris Brodrick - Guest Editor - Lars von Trier withdraws from 2006 Ring - More on the Ring -Leading up to Adelaide - Birthday News WSoNZ has its 10th Birthday and Richard turns 191 - A Decade of Wagner in NZ - President's Report from AGM - 2004 Events & Notices
March 2004		March 2004 Newsletter: - Wagner Steals the Show in Auckland (NZSO) - Reviews of recent meetings - Not the First Wagner Society in NZ?? - April Events - Notices
February 2004		February 2004 Newsletter: - WSNZ Moves Into its Tenth Year - Round and Round The Ring - Recent Events - The Wagner-New Zealand Foundation - Verdi's Lohengrin ??? - Book Review - "The Ideas of Richard Wagner" - Wagner Watch - Notices
Newsletters below here no longer available on-line. Copies available if required
November 2003		November 2003 Newsletter: - Wellington Welcomes Wotan - Watching the World of Wagner - Recent Events - New Book Honours Wolfgang Wagner - Review - In-Between days of Adelaide's Ring Filling Up - End of Year Programmes for all Centres - Notices
August 2003		August 2003 Newsletter: - Sir Donald McIntyre To Visit Auckland in September - New Zealand Honours Sir Donald McIntyre - Backwards Glances and Forward Glimpses - Bayreuth - Never Far From the Headlines - Adelaide's *Ring* Preparations Move into Top Gear - Notices
July 2003		July 2003 Newsletter: - Demand for Wagner Programmes Undiminished - AGM Time Again - 2003 AGM Report - Book Reviews: - The Good Wagner Opera Guide - Wagner without Fear - Is Opera for Ears Only?
May 2003		May 2003 Newsletter: - Wagner lights up the NZ Concert Scene in May - NZSO - Programmes for 2003 - Raised Eyes At Bayreuth's Plans Are GettingTo Be A Habit - More News from Bayreuth - Opera Australia's "Die Meistersinger" - Beyreuth's First "Tristan und Isolde" Word from Our Patron..... - Why So Many Wirulent-Wagner-Watchers? - Three Sure Things In Life: Death, Taxse and AGMs!
March 2003		March 2003 Newsletter: - A New Zealand Flosshilde for Adelaide - Programmes for 2003 - Aggro-culture and the Generation-Gap in Die Meistersinger - Wagner the Perfect Pitch for This Tenor - And Now a Word from Our Patron..... - 2003 Subscriptions Due
February 2003		February 2003 Newsletter: - Huge Helpings of Wagner in NZSO Concert - Programmes for 2003 - Oz Overkill or New World Re-Possession? - The Distant Sound of a Second Ring - Music is No-one's Instrument - The may not be life after Bayreuth but there's life alongside Bayreuth
October 2002		October 2002 Newsletter: - Wagner Concert A Highlight for NZSO Season in 2003 - Reflections on Bayreuth 2002 - Wagner's Not-So-Sacred Offices (Bayreuth's "Corporate" Ring) - Another Medlyn voice for singing Wagner - Mime under the microscope in Christchurch
August 2002		August 2002 Newsletter: - World-Wandering Wagnerians - Wagner, Festivals and Cricket - Dresden: Opera house and the floods - Adelaide 2004
June 2002		June 2002 Newsletter: - A Knight of Wagner (Rodney Macann) - Who else gets an AGM for his birthday? - Presidents report for the last year - Centre Programmes (Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch)
May 2002		May 2002 Newsletter: - The big picture - Wagner Societies Worldwide - Wagner in Berlin - Berlin tour - Half-a-score of Wagner operas - Berlin - Do producers have the right to change Wagner's endings? - Centre Programmes (Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch)
March 2002		March 2002 Newsletter: - "Drawing" attention to Wagner - Are Wagnerian voices beginning to cry "Enough"? - Dream voice stays in home country (Bryn Terfel) - Dream voice goes into nightmare country (Ben Heppner) - Centre Programmes (Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch)

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