Wagner Society in NSW

Wagner Society in NSW Interested in becoming a member of the Society? Well, there are lots of benefits.

Our members are lovers of the music and operas of Richard Wagner and also support Wagnerian productions in Australia and emerging Wagnerian performers from NSW. The Wagner Society NSW page is a place to follow a group of fellow Wagnerians, the Society's activities and Wagner performers and performances worldwide. As a member, you can:

- attend a variety of events each year, including tal

ks, zoom talks, seminars, concerts and films, with outstanding presenters and exciting performers, and with afternoon tea following each in-person event;

- attend a champagne celebration of Wagner’s birthday and a Christmas Party;

- meet and get to know like-minded Wagnerians;

- enjoy the fellowship of our extended network of music/theatre lovers when attending performances in Australia and overseas;

- receive four issues of the Wagner Quarterly per year as well as regular e-news;

- access the Society’s website with its photo gallery, views and reviews about Australian and international Wagner productions, all previous Quarterlies, all previous events, and much more;

- have the opportunity to access tickets for the annual Bayreuth Festival; and

- know that you are helping to support young Wagnerian or potential Wagnerian performers from NSW as well as productions of Wagner in Australia.

For the diary!
25/08/2026

For the diary!

In 1949, twenty-two year old Joan Sutherland won the Sun Aria at Sydney Eisteddfod.

This year marks 100 years since her birth, and this Saturday another singer will add their name to the history of the competition we now know as the Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship.

It is quite a history.

June Bronhill. Heather Begg. Jonathan Summers. Stuart Skelton. Daniel Sumegi. Warwick Fyfe. Pene Pati. Stacey Alleaume. Amina Edris.

And Dame Joan Sutherland.

This Saturday, five emerging opera singers perform in the Final, with a $43,000 scholarship for overseas study awaiting the winner.

Perhaps the most exciting part? We don’t yet know which of these young voices we’ll still be talking about decades from now.

🎼 Sydney Eisteddfod Opera Scholarship Final
📅 Saturday 29 August, 7pm
📍 Music Workshop, Sydney Conservatorium of Music
🎟️ Tickets: https://sydneyeisteddfod.com.au/artfuel/purchase/tickets/20325/sale

Image from the Joan Sutherland and Richard Bonynge Foundation

Join us for a talk by Associate Professor Ross Anderson on his book "The Appian Way"' about Adolphe Appia. Appia (1862–1...
21/08/2026

Join us for a talk by Associate Professor Ross Anderson on his book "The Appian Way"' about Adolphe Appia. Appia (1862–1928) is an enigmatic figure in the history of modern theatre, best known for his writings on the mise-en-scène and stage designs for the music dramas of Richard Wagner.

All welcome.

When? 2.00pm on Sunday 13 September 2026, preceded at 12.00 noon by Tony Palmer’s "Wagner" Part 5 (final).

Where? Goethe Institut, 90 Ocean Street (cnr Jersey Road), Woollahra NSW

Cost? $35 members, $45 non-members, $15 full-time students

Buy online tickets: https://events.humanitix.com/associate-professor-ross-anderson-talks-about-his-book-the-appian-way

For the diary!
19/08/2026

For the diary!

For the diary!
19/08/2026

For the diary!

A most enjoyable and thought provoking presentation this afternoon by Dr Sarah Penicka-Smith on The Future of Opera and ...
16/08/2026

A most enjoyable and thought provoking presentation this afternoon by Dr Sarah Penicka-Smith on The Future of Opera and What Wagner Has To Do With It.

Sarah is a socially-engaged artist, Associate Conductor of Willoughby Symphony Orchestra and a valued Wagner Society member.

In considering approaches that are critical to the success of building opera-loving communities, she shared many of the findings from her recent Churchill Fellowship travel to Europe and the USA. These included the startling experiences of participants in Santa Fe Opera’s groundbreaking Pueblo Opera Program, which began in 1973 with a production of Der fliegende Holländer.

Sarah also showed how Wagner himself, when creating his Festspielhaus and Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, introduced many innovative ways to build an opera-loving community.

14/08/2026

LIVE TONIGHT - Tune in from 6:30pm to hear thrilling music from two epic Wagner operas - Tannhäuser and Parsifal, performed by heroic tenor Simon O'Neill and the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pietari Inkinen.

Link in comments for how to listen to RNZ Concert.

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13/08/2026

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Life, Love & Opera - a memento of our concert held on Sunday 2 Augu...

13/08/2026

Nice to see Melbourne will see Opera Australia's Tannhäuser next year.

Remember the days when Tannhäuser, Flying Dutchman, Lohengrin and Meistersinger were all performed in the Sydney Opera House?

Sigh.

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