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6:30 PM start
Tuesday 22^nd
May 2012

Wagner Society in Qld Inc.

BIRTHDAY DINNER

Piccolo restaurant
Cnr Raymont Rd and Blandford St
Grange

2:00 PM start
Saturday 16^th
June 2012

Two screenings referring to the life, works and family of Richard Wagner.
Members have priority

as per newsletter. Please phone JJ to book

2:00 PM start
Saturday 14^th
July 2012

A BEGINNERS GUIDE TO DAS RHEINGOLD
A description ot the Ring MOTIVS will be followed by a screening of Das Rheingold.
Attention will be drawn to each MOTIV as it first appears and then again as it reappears later, further developed.
Members have priority

as per newsletter. Please phone Secretary to book

WESENDONK LEIDER
Saturday 11^th August 2012

Lisa Gasteen sings the Wesendonck Lieder with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Also on the program is Bruckner's 8th Symphony. Bookings through QTIX only.

QPAC Brisbane

The DEADLINE for submissions for 2013 Wagner Bicentenary Competition for Composers is :-
Saturday 30^th June 2012

Wagner Society in Qld Inc.

Composer submissions and all donations towards the $10,000 prize, gratefully accepted.

Media release
Criteria and Terms of Reference

Secretary Barbara Clifford mobile 04 0714 5177PO Box 8357 Woolloongabba Qld 4102

WESENDONK LEIDER
Saturday 11^th August 2012

Lisa Gasteen sings the Wesendonck Lieder with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra. Also on the program is Bruckner's 8th Symphony. Bookings through QTIX only.

QPAC Brisbane

DAS RHEINGOLD
Thursday 23^rd August 2012

Simone Young will conduct the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Hamburg State Opera in a concert performance of Das Rheingold

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QPAC Brisbane

DAS RHEINGOLD Symposium

Registration and documentation from 8:30 am

9:15 - 9:30 am Welcome

Hal Davis, President of the Wagner Society in Queensland.

Professor Huib Schippers, Director of Queensland Conservatorium

9:30 - 10:10 am What Price Love? - Wagner's ideas at the heart of Das Rheingold.

Peter Bassett

10:10 - 10:40 am Simone Young in Hamburg

Excerpts from a documentary film Simone Young: Die Dirigentin by German film-maker Ralf Pleger. Also featuring the Hamburg Philharmonic, Lisa Gasteen, Petra Lang, Placido Domingo and Daniel Barenboim.

10:40 - 11:10 am Refreshment Break

11:10 - 12:00 Simone Young in Brisbane.

12:00 - 12:50 pm The Birth of Film out of the Spirit of Music - the cinematic in Das Rheingold

Dr Graham Bruce

12:50 - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 - 2:30 pm Seven Pieces for Goethe's Faust (1831) by Richard Wagner.

Students of the Queensland Conservatorium, Griffith University

2:30 - 3:20 pm A Most Original Mind - Convergence of theory and practice in Das Rheingold.

Dr Stephen Emmerson

3:20 - 3:40 pmRefreshment break

3:40 - 4:20 pm Preparing major Wagnerian roles.

Professor Lisa Gasteen

4:20- 5:00 pm Das Rheingold: 'a morass of horrors and sublimities!' (Wagner to Liszt, 15 January 1854)

Round Table discussion chaired by Leo Schofield.

Click here to print this timetable

Rheingold Symposium Newsletter No 1

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DAS RHEINGOLD
Saturday 25^th August 2012

Simone Young will conduct the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra and Hamburg State Opera in a concert performance of Das Rheingold

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QPAC Brisbane

THE RING
2012

Hamburg:
March 1, 4, 7, 11
conductor Simone Young; director Claus Guth
cast: Catherine Foster, Franz, Dohmen, Koch, O'Neill, Brunner

Munich:
1: July 3, 4, 6, 8
II: July 10, 11, 13, 15
conductor Kent Nagano; director Andreas Kriegenburg
cast includes 3 Brünnhildes: Dalayman(W), Naglestad (S) Stemme(G)
2 Siegfrieds Ryan (S), Gould (G)
plus Uusitalo, K.F. Vogt, Anja Kampe

Royal Opera, Covent Garden:
1: Sept 24, 26, 29, Oct1
II: Oct 2, 4, 7. 9
III: Oct 16, 18, 21, 24
IV: Oct 26, 28, 31, Nov 2
conductor Antonio Pappano: directionKeith Warner
cast: Bullock, Vinke, Terfel, O'Neill, Westbroek

HAMBURG

MUNICH

COVENT GARDEN

THE RING
2013

Wagner Bicentenary year
The director of the new Bayreuth Ring to begin in 2013 is Frank Castorf, from Berlin Volksbühne (people's theatre)

Bayreuth

Melbourne Ring
Monday 18^th November 2013
through to
Friday 13^th December 2013

Wagner Bicentenary year
Opera Australia, in collaboration with Houston Grand Opera, the Victorian Government (through the Victorian Major Events Company), and Maureen and Tony Wheeler, is delighted to announce a long-awaited project at the State Theatre.
The capacity of the orchestra pit will be expanded from 65 musicians to 110 musicians by installing stage lifts under the first two rows of seats.

OPERA AUSTRALIA
Melbourne Age

The State Theatre

Berlin Staatsoper Ring at the 2013 London Proms

Wagner Bicentenary year
The highlight of the Proms in 2013 will be a complete Ring Cycle from Berlin Staatsoper and conducted by Daniel Barenboim

2013 PROMS RING

The Albert Hall

THE WAGNER CANON
May 2013

Wagner Bicentenary year
Simone Young will also be doing the Wagner canon (possibly starting with Rienzi)

Hamburg

NSW website

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