Sunday, 21 April at 4.00pm
St Andrew’s Hall
30 The Terrace

Talk by Heath Lees
A brand-new talk by Heath Lees on Wagner’s earliest dramatic works: Buried Treasures – Die Feen and Das Liebesverbot.

Sunday, 30 June at 3.00pm
Te Auaha Theatre
NZ Institute of Creativity
Dixon Street
(note time and venue)

Documentary screening
A screening of two contrasting one-hour documentaries to tie in with the APO’s upcoming concertante performance of Tristan und Isolde in August:
Do I Hear the Light? (2007), a film about Nikolaus Lehnhoff’s celebrated production of Tristan at Glyndebourne, England (also featuring the Swedish mezzo, Katarina Karnéus, the upcoming APO concert’s Brangäne); and
Carlos Kleiber – I am Lost to the World (2011), an ambitious German-made film about the enigmatic conductor, with his special take on Tristan running through the film like a leitmotif. (Kleiber’s 1980–82 studio Tristan counts among the top recordings of the opera and is regarded by many as his single greatest achievement.)

Talk by Antony Ernst
A presentation on Parsifal, to be given by Antony Ernst.

Joint meeting with the Opera Society
A screening of the 2020 production of Parsifal from the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, one of the last productions to be staged by the late English director, Graham Vick.