By Peter Bassett (A talk given at a Conference of the Australian Psychoanalytical Society at the time of the Ring in Adelaide in 2004). According to the old myths, the legendary hero Siegfried was carried in his mother’s womb for seven years before birth – an exhausting detail that Wagner actually used in one of […]
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MY FIFTY YEARS WITH WAGNER
MY FIFTY YEARS WITH WAGNER : Reminiscences by our Tasmanian member, Roger Glynn-Connolly
A Wonderful Experience: Parsifal in an Unusual Place
Colin Mackerras reviews a Parsifal performance in China.
Wagner, Schumann and the other ‘Tristan’
Peter Bassett discusses contemporaries Wagner, Schumann and the writing of ‘Tristan’.
The first Australian singer at the Bayreuth Festival
Read the fascinating story of Norma Gadsden.