Celebrating Steve Reich at 90
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Steve Reich turned 90 on Saturday and on Tuesday evening Soundstreams
staged a celebratory concert at Koerner Hall. It began with an unusual
performance of...
2 days ago
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... Read on →
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... Read on →
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... Read on →
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... Read on →Verdi and Wagner: Contrast and Compare.
In his video series, Anthony Tommasini contrasts the dynamic duo of 19th-century opera: Verdi and Wagner. Read on →
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... Read on →
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... Read on →
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... Read on →
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 ... Read on →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 ... Read on →
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... Read on →atkibblepalace,glasgowbotanicgardenscredittommyga-kenwan.jpg)
Pocket Sized Rigoletto? Scottish Opera at T In Park? What would Verdi Say?
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, ... Read on →
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... Read on →
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... Read on →
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