Someone sent me this information earlier. After testing it out I thought I might share. If you subscribe to Toronto Symphony Orchestra ...
Listen To The Entire Naxos/Marco Polo Catalog, for free, legally.
Tuesday, 31 May 2011
SF Opera: Siegfried - Review Summery.
I love opera reviews, less for what they say about the production and more for what they say about the reviewers - and human perception in g...
Monday, 30 May 2011
Bayreuth In A Garden:Longborough Festival Opera 2011
That most unusual of British Opera festivals is due to start, and I will be covering it in more detail soon. But while Siegfried hunts for a...
Birgit Nilsson - Mon 27 May 1963 - Desert Island Discs. What and whom did she select?
Desert Island Discs is a long-running BBC Radio 4 programme first broadcast on 29 January 1942. As it's name would suggest, an invi...
Wagner's Ring: Worthless and Irrelevant? Roger Scruton thinks not
"Nietzsche invites us to see Wagner's characters as one-dimensional people, sick remnants of the bourgeois order, dressed up in her...
Sunday, 29 May 2011
Verdi and Wagner: Contrast and Compare.
In his video series, Anthony Tommasini contrasts the dynamic duo of 19th-century opera: Verdi and Wagner.
Royal Opera and The Met announce cinema seasons - 2011-2012
SOURCE: BBC Opera houses announce productions to be broadcast globally (Thanks to Opera Peru ) Nine Covent Garden productions, and 11...
Saturday, 28 May 2011
SF Opera Ring Festival 2011: "What happens if you just fall right over her?" asked Francesca Zambello.
In S.F., Francesca Zambello completes 'Ring' Siegfried dropped his glass and swaggered toward the couch. Gutrune eyed him knowing...
August 1935 - Gramophone: "My trouble with Parsifal is that I am incapable of accepting Wagner's sincerity of belief."
I found this editorial from Gramophone 1935 interesting, especially given Katharina Wagner's recent remarks about Parsifal and "re...
WAGNER By Peter Latham: Aesthetics and Orchestration. Gramophone 1926
An article published in Gramophone, June 1926. Latham discuss, Wagner, Gluck, Music -Drama, Aesthetics and Orchestration. WAGNER himself ...
Richard Mills: Conducts The Ring And Takes Over Melbourne's Victorian Opera 2013
CONDUCTOR Richard Mills is apparently unstoppable: in 2013 he will take over artistic leadership of Melbourne's Victorian Opera as well ...
Friday, 27 May 2011
Tannhäuser: An opera for those that have felt outlawed because of their sex?
Tim Ashley, examines Tannhäuser and finds it to be not only a favorite to such a diverse group of individuals as Freud, Oscar Wild and Qu...
Pocket Sized Rigoletto? Scottish Opera at T In Park? What would Verdi Say?
atkibblepalace,glasgowbotanicgardenscredittommyga-kenwan.jpg)
Off topic a little but, far to interesting not to mention. T In The Park is a music festival more at home with acts like Arctic Monkeys, ...
Grange Park Opera, 2011. First Tristan und Isolde. Also Bryn Terfel In Recital, Rusalka and more
It's nearly that time again and with their first staged performance of Tristan (looked at in a little more detail here ), two nights of...
Dallas Opera: Tristan und Isolde - 2012 Clifton Forbis - Tristan, Jeanne-Michèle Charbonnet - Isolde
Dallas opera will present a four performance, semi-staged production of Tristan und Isolde in 2012. featuring projections by , Elaine Mc...
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
Dresden exhibition sheds light on Nazi persecution in the theater
Source: http://www.dw-world.de Note: You might also, if you haven't already, check out Enrique Sanchez Lansch's extraordinary, of...
Tuesday, 24 May 2011
Listen "On Demand": Jonas Kaufmann And The Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Artfeast, Harpa, Concert Hall - FREE
On 21May 2011 Kaufman gave a concert as part of The Reykjavík Arts Festival. The details were as follows: Puccini ...
ENO, Goethe's Faust, Terry Gilliam, Audio Interview. Download
Occasionally, I will put up "none" Wagner related posts (when the mood takes me) However, in my defense, there are obvious connect...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)