{"id":17424,"date":"2014-09-30T17:38:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T07:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=17424"},"modified":"2014-09-30T17:38:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-30T07:38:33","slug":"in-pursuit-of-choral-perfection-inside-tales-from-the-wagner-festival-chorus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/?p=17424","title":{"rendered":"In Pursuit of Choral Perfection &#8211; Inside Tales From The Wagner Festival Chorus"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17425\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17425\" style=\"width: 126px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-17425  \" alt=\"Sarahlouise Owens\" src=\"https:\/\/soundslikesydney.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/download-23.jpg\" width=\"126\" height=\"192\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17425\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sarahlouise Owens<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">The Wagner Society of New South Wales presents <em>In Pursuit of Choral Perfection,<\/em>\u00a0a talk given by tenor\u00a0George Gilmour and soprano Sarahlouise Owens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Both singers are former Bayreuth choristers and their talk ill reveal the inside workings of the famous Wagner Festival Chorus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">George Gilmour has now changed careers combining artistic and corporate endeavours while\u00a0Sarahlouise Owens lives in Canberra where she conducts and sings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0Before the talk, at\u00a012.30, there will be a\u00a0DVD of the\u00a0Wagner Bicentenary Concert\u00a0from the Semper Oper Dresden,\u00a0featuring Jonas Kaufmann.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Afternoon tea will be served after the talk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">Members: $20, Non-members: $25<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wagner Society of New South Wales presents In Pursuit of Choral Perfection,\u00a0a talk given by tenor\u00a0George Gilmour and soprano Sarahlouise Owens.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"sls_format":[],"class_list":["post-17424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shows"],"acf":{"deck":"","is_featured":false,"media_type":"standard","audio_embed":"","video_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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