17/12/11 - Free Broadcast: Lohengrin: Franz Völker, Maria Müller, etc Recorded 1942
Muller/Volker Bayreuth 1936
Lohengrin: Franz Völker, Elsa von Brabant: Maria Müller, Heinrich der Vogler: Ludwig Hofmann, Friedrich von Telramund: Jaro Prohaska, Ortrud: Margarete Klose, Heerrufer des Königs: Walter Grossmann.Chor der Staatsoper Berlin, Staatskapelle Berlin, Leitung: Robert Heger, 1942. (3 hrs., 30 min.)
Salzburg’s Hoffmann is hard to decode
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Mariane Clément’s production of Offenbach’s Les contes d’Hoffmann recorded
at the 2024 Salzburg Festival is not the sort of production that one
dismisses a...
Amapola by Villeroy Boch
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This painting of a teapot and other crockery from the Amapola series by
Villeroy Boch adds a sense of calm to a wall.
Amapola is the word for Poppy in Span...
Staring into the Abyss with Wozzeck
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Wozzeck is a musical and theatrical labyrinth in which the human mind
slowly disintegrates. Opera Ballet Vlaanderen closes the season with a
production of ...
NY Wagner Society Announces Auditions for Grants
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The Wagner Society of New York has, for many years, awarded grants to young
singers whose gifts and talents indicate that they may have a future in the
Wag...
The Future
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Today is Nostradomus day.These are my predictions for the coming year (I
hoope I'm wrong)> First, Trump will begin the roundup and deportaton anyone
he ded...
Lahti
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I am in Lahti, Finland, to give a talk at the Lahti Symphony's Sibelius
Festival. I've been wanting to visit since I encountered Osmo Vänskä's
revelatory B...
Royal Opera House announces Ring Cycles for 2018!
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Very excited by this announcement. Must start saving now…. ADVANCE
ANNOUNCEMENT Four full cycles performed September–November 2018 The 2018/19
Season open...