Autumn meeting (date & time TBC)
Te Auaha Theatre
NZ Institute of Creativity
Dixon Street

Documentary screening
Topic TBC.

Sunday, 8 June at 5.00pm
St Andrews Hall
30 The Terrace
(note later starting time)

Presentation by Terence Dennis
Historical Perspectives – Great Wagner Singers, continuing his fascinating series of historic Wagner performers, a treasure trove of some of the rarest, and historically most precious, recordings – from the earliest days of the era of Cosima Wagner to the Golden Age of the 1930s, with the original Parsifal and Kundry from the 1882 Parsifal premiere.

Richard Wagner and the Spirit of Greek Tragedy
John Davidson and Scott Bezett discuss Wagner’s deep inspiration from Classical Greek Drama; how this profoundly influenced his ideas of a new aesthetic for opera, its place in contemporary society and in the writing of the Ring of the Nibelung tetralogy.

Joint meeting with the Opera Society
A full screening of the 2016 production of Wagner’s early opera, Das Liebesverbot (based on Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure), from the Teatro Real in Madrid, in a modern production by Kasper Holten, conducted by Ivor Bolton with soloists Christopher Maltman, Manuela Uhl and Ilker Arcayürek.