Wagner Society in NSW Inc
Review

Report
Program
Keynote speakers
Speakers
Panel Discussion
Final Comments

Program

Keynote Address 1

Prof John Deathridge (King’s College, University of London)

Walter Benjamin’s Walter Benjamin’s Trauerspiel and the 19^th-Century Operatic Tragedy

Session 1

Prof David Roberts (Monash University)

History and Myth in Wagner

Dr Anno Mungen (University of Mainz)

Wagner’s Visual Concept of Music Theatre and its French Background in the Early Nineteenth Century

Mr Robert Gibson (University of Sydney)

Problematic Propaganda Problematic Propaganda

Session 1

Prof David Roberts (Monash University)

History and Myth in Wagner

Dr Anno Mungen (University of Mainz)

Wagner’s Visual Concept of Music Theatre and its French Background in the Early Nineteenth Century

Mr Robert Gibson (University of Sydney)

Problematic Propaganda Problematic Propaganda

Session 1

Prof David Roberts (Monash University)

History and Myth in Wagner

Dr Anno Mungen (University of Mainz)

Wagner’s Visual Concept of Music Theatre and its French Background in the Early Nineteenth Century

Mr Robert Gibson (University of Sydney)

Problematic Propaganda Problematic Propaganda Parsifal as Forbidden Opera

Keynote Address 2

Dr Oswald Bauer (Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste)

United in Love and Spring. Nature as Performer in United in Love and Spring. Nature as Performer in The Ring

Session 2

Dr Howard Melzer (University of North Texas)

Money for Culture, Culture for Money: The Case of Wagner

Mr Richard Laing (Royal Northern College of Music Manchester)

Alberich, Brünnhilde and Renunciation: Framing Alberich, Brünnhilde and Renunciation: Framing The Ring

Ms Susan Sharkey (University of Manchester)

Unravel the Riddles of Unravel the Riddles of The Ring: Return to the Manuscripts

Keynote Address 3

Prof Dr Dieter Borchmeyer (University of Heidelberg)

Richard Wagner and the Myth of the Beginning and End of the World

Session 3

Dr Roger Hillman (Australian National University)

Syberberg’s Syberberg’s Hitler: A Wagnerian German Requiem

Dr Jeongwan Joe (University of Nevada-Reno)

Is Syberberg’s Kundry Rescued from Wagner’s Mysogyny? The Dialectics of Voice and Body in Hans-Jurgen Syberberg’s Is Syberberg’s Kundry Rescued from Wagner’s Mysogyny? The Dialectics of Voice and Body in Hans-Jurgen Syberberg’s Parsifal

Dr Julie Hubbert (University of South Carolina)

Wagner and the Aesthetic of Film Music

Keynote Address 4

Mr Barry Millington (London)

‘Invisible Theatre’: The Ideal Wagner Staging

Session 4

Dr Marshall Tuttle (Langston University)

Harmonic Grammar and Tonal Association in Late Wagner

Dr Nicholas Baragwanath (Victoria University of Auckland)

Interval Cycles and the Infinite in Wagner’s Later Work

Dr Warren Drake (University of Auckland)

Wagner’s ‘new path’ to Symphonic-Dramatic Form: The Opening Scene of Wagner’s ‘new path’ to Symphonic-Dramatic Form: The Opening Scene of Die Walküre

Mr Chi Keung Mark Wong (University of Sydney)

Musical Narrativity in the Musical Narrativity in the Tristan Prelude

Session 5

Prof Dr Eva Rieger (University of Bremen)

Wagner’s Brünnhilde – Whose Voice is Speaking?

Dr Peter Russell (University of Wellington)

Woman-Power and Man-Power: The Prison of Gender in Wagner’s Woman-Power and Man-Power: The Prison of Gender in Wagner’s Tannhäuser

Terence Watson - 8 May 1999