Sir John Tomlinson and Susan Bullock CBE in conversation with Christopher Cook ZOOM WEBINAR 6:30PM 28TH OCTOBER 2020 Susan Bullock CBE Susan Bullock’s unique position as one of the world’s most sought-after British dramatic sopranos was recognised by the award of a CBE for Services to Opera in June 2014. Of her most distinctive roles, (more…)

Australians Sing Wagner with Roger Neill   ZOOM WEBINAR: 6:30PM, 10TH NOVEMBER 2020 Roger Neill will introduce a range of Australians who sang (or sing) Wagner – from Nellie Melba to Stuart Skelton. Roger Neill Roger is an expert on the innovators, artists, writers and musicians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He (more…)

Anna Tomowa-Sintow in conversation with Yehuda Shapiro ZOOM WEBINAR 6:30PM 11TH NOVEMBER 2020   Anna Tomowa-Sintow “Toscanini never had access to a voice like hers – she can sing a high C at nine in the morning.” This is what Herbert von Karajan said of the celebrated soprano with whom he had worked for 17 (more…)

Kundry Speaks: Yvonne Minton CBE in conversation with Professor Emeritus Raymond Holden AM ZOOM WEBINAR 6:30PM 12TH NOVEMBER 2020   As one of the most distinguished and versatile mezzo-sopranos of the twentieth century, Yvonne Minton performed and recorded with many of the leading conductors of the age. A passionate and committed Wagnerian throughout her career, (more…)

“Chaos turned to harmony: Richard Wagner and J.S. Bach” with Roger Allen     ZOOM WEBINAR: 6:30PM, 18TH NOVEMBER 2020   As long ago as 1911 Ernest Newman suggested in his book Wagner as Man and Artist that. ‘the world had not seen a musical brain working at such tremendous and long-sustained pressure since the days (more…)