Time & Location
15 Nov 2025, 10:00 – 16:30
Woollahra, 90 Ocean St, Woollahra NSW 2025, Australia
About the event
Time:10.00am – 4.30pm
Venue:The Goethe Institut, Event Hall (upstairs), 90 Ocean Street (cnr Jersey Road), Woollahra
Cost:Wagner Society members (from anywhere) – $110Guests (all welcomed) – $130Students – $50
ABOUT THE SYMPOSIUM
We continue our series of Symposia held in conjunction with the Simone Young/SSO Ring performances.The symposium will feature papers presented by:– Dr Peter Bassett (Wagner’s Siegfried and the Power of Nature)– Livia Brash (on Brünnhilde)– Professor Carole Cusack (Siegfried the Failed Hero, Brünnhilde the Redeemer of the World) and – Dr David Larkin (The hero’s (changing) journey: Wagner’s stylistic evolution in Siegfried), all giving us an insight into the third music drama of Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Our fifth speaker will be Daniel Linton-France who has been assisting Maestro Simone Young AM at Bayreuth and will be assisting in Sydney. The WSNSW is sponsoring the Assistant Conductor role for the SSO.