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Company
Argus / The Beecham Opera Comique Company / The Sydney Morning Herald / English Opera Company / ABC / Golden West / Arts SA / Cagli-Pompei Royal Italian Opera Company / Quinlan Opera Company / The star / Sunday Times / State Opera Ring Corporation / Rheingold / the Financial Times / /
Continent
America / Asia / Europe / North America / /
Country
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Currency
USD / GBP / /
EntertainmentAwardEvent
the first Bayreuth Festival / the Melbourne International Festival / the Ring’s ‘festival / /
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Person Travel / Employment Change / Bankruptcy / /
Facility
Royal Danish Opera / Berlin State Opera / Wagnerian opera / Opera Theatre / State Opera of South Australia / State Opera / Opera Australia / Welsh National Opera / Victorian State Opera / West German consulate / Australian Opera / Town Hall / Opera Australia’s Walküre / Victorian Opera / Sydney Opera House / Bavarian State Opera / /
Holiday
Commonwealth Day / at persuading the Commonwealth to be the major financial backer / /
MusicAlbum
Carmen / Faust / Il trovatore / Aida / Delilah / La traviata / Rigoletto / /
MusicGroup
Adelaide Symphony Orchestra / /
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Rhine / /
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Macintosh / /
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Person
Robert Gard / Leonie Rysanek / Robert Hale / Mark Elder / Sara Anderson / Hunding McIntyre / Allan Lees / Heather Begg / Ludwig II / Fricka Gard / Horace Stevens / Andrew Sinclair / Ben Fuller / Maureen Wheeler / Gustave Slapoffski / Horst Hoffmann / Joan Sutherland / Margreta Elkins / John Philip Sousa / Rosemary Gunn / Alberto Zelman / David Pountney / Roger Covell / Hans Mohwinkel / Franz Costa / Manon Lescaut / Charles Moor / William Lyster / Richard Wagner / Jon Weaving / Diana Laidlaw / John Culshaw / Pierre Strosser / Hugh Canning / Benjamin Fuller / Emil Sander / Jeffrey Tate / Nellie Melba / Donald McDonald / Leo Schofield / Stuart Challender / Kurt Rydl / Richard Divall / Daniel Barenboim / Thomas Beecham / Marjorie Lawrence / Richard Eckhold / Rita Hunter / Donald McIntyre / Julius Rünger / Florence Wilson / Bill Gillespie / Elizabeth Connell / Raymond Myers / Donald Shanks / Helen Nugent / Shirley Apthorpe / John Weaving / Maud Percival Allen / Carlo Felice Cillario / Edo de Waart / Adelaide Ring / Albert Bonnema / Bruce Martin / Peter Bassett / Thomas Quinlan / Fritz Kreisler / Enrico Caruso / Peter Hemmings / Marilyn Richardson / Friedrich Schorr / George Musgrove / Moffatt Oxenbould / Kirsten Flagstad / Joan Hammond / Frederick / Charles Mackerras / Fritz Reiner / Otto Wesendonck / Richard Wagner Sander / Eric Neal / Richard Bonynge / Siegfried Martin / Asher Fisch / Alberto Remedios / Oleg Caetani / Florence Austral / Karl Studemund / Marilyn Zschau / Clifford Grant / Johanna Heinze / Cosima Wagner / Frida Leider / Charles Berg / Robert Parker / /
Position
theatre director / chief conductor / Chief Executive / General-Director / Prince of Wales Theatre / principal artist / General Manager / conductor and director / railway clerk / Minister / manager / General Manager / critic / musical director / Artistic Director / musician / co-operative / accountant / conductor / Director of the Melbourne International Festival / Administrator / Major / Music Director for the Ring / experienced conductor / Governor / chairman / director / Music Director / Director at the time / Governor of South Australia / Artistic Administrator / /
ProvinceOrState
South Australia / Victoria / /
PublishedMedium
The Bulletin / The Argus / the Financial Times / the Sydney Morning Herald / /
The RING in Australia Wagner arrived in Australia (metaphorically speaking) on 18 August 1877, one year after the first Bayreuth Festival, when Lohengrin was performed at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Melbourne by