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The troubled Paris Opera has announced that it will delay the opening of its 2020-21 season. This decision has effectively cancelled the company’s new Ring Cycle production, directed by Calixto Bieito. Paris Opera management are considering staging this production in a future season but no decision has yet been made.

2020 Bayreuth Festival is cancelled.

Opera Australia has announced that its performances of Lohengrin in Melbourne on 16, 20, 23 and 29 May 2020 have been cancelled

A message from the Chicago Lyric Opera in response to Coronavirus shutdowns: The State and the City encouraged that community events of 250 people or more should be cancelled until May 1st. This encompasses the time period of our long-planned and highly-anticipated Ring cycle. With great regret, we have no option but to cancel all […]

Tickets on sale soon for our wine-lover’s Raffle

Programme for 2020

Each year, the Wagner Society in Queensland provides an award of $1,000

The Wagner Society in Queensland’s Encouragement Award recipient for 2019 is

Finnish conductor Pietari Inkinen (our Tristan conductor in 2020) will conduct the new Ring at Bayreuth in 2020. 

In August 2019 we shall celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Wagner Society in Queensland. Three of our founding members recall those early days.

Interview with John Rotar, Honorary Member of the Wagner Society in Qld.

Wagner performances 2019-2020 in Australia and the region

Wonderful news: The Ring will be staged in Brisbane in 2020!

Programme for 2019, Wagner Society in Queensland.