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Northside Opera Study Group
PROGRAM FOR 2025
First Semester:    Monday 3 February to Monday 23 June
 
     First Semester     2025      Lectures 10 am to 12.30 pm      3 February - 23 June
DAY
MONTH
TOPIC
PRESENTER

3

February

Janacek's Katya Kabanova

Dr Antony Ernst

10
February

The Frozen Ensemble

Dr Richard Mason
17
February

Great Singers of Australasia

Ben Oxley

24
February

Massenet's Cendrillon (Cinderella)

Matt Gaskin

3
March

Leonard Bernstein's Candide

Dr Paul Smith
10
March

             Dido and Aeneas       

Michael Burden

17
March Pacific Opera's Young Artists for 2025 Chris McNee

24

March

  Parsifal Re-examined

Prof Colin Mackerras

31
March

Bel Canto Gala

  Dr Hannah Mondry

7

April

  Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin

Dr Paul Smith

14
April

The Opera of Auber

Dr Murray Dahm

21
April

  EASTER MONDAY

NO MEETING

28
April

Verdi's Joanna D'Arco

Dr Murray Dahm

5

May

J Berlioz's Les Troyens: Part II - Les Troyens a Carthage

Dr Robert Forgacs

12

May

  Puccini's La Fanciulla Del West

Dr David Schwartz

19

May

Richard Wagner and the Treplitz Mystery

Dr Peter Bassett
26
May

Monteverd's Orfeo

Dr Jack Stephens
2 June

Rusalka

Dr Christina Henson Hayes

9
June KING'S BIRTHDAY
NO MEETING
16 June Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro Andy Morton
23 June An Opera Trivia Morning Lynn Longfoot & Team


  PATRON: JOHN PRINGLE AM

Lectures resume Monday 21 July 2025
Programme Co-ordinator: Wendy Hamlin