Watch Now: Gundula Kreuzer's lecture on the new MET Ring Cycle (1 hr 30 mins)
A lecture which is part of Wagner Worldwide 2013. While interesting and intriguing for us Wagner "nerds" only I would suspect
Gundula Kreuzer (Yale University, USA) discuess the new "Ring"-Production of Robert Lepage at the Metropolitan Opera, New York with the title: "Performance, Media, Authenticity: Technologies of
(Re)production and the Metropolitan Opera's new 'Ring'"
Gerstein - Liszt and Brahms, 7 January 2026
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Wigmore Hall
* Liszt: *Three Petrarch Sonnets, S 158; *Années de pèlerinage, Deuxième
année: Italie*: ‘Après une lecture du Dante’, S 161/7
*Brahms: *S...
Pictures from the Private Collection of God
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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
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Lahti
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I am in Lahti, Finland, to give a talk at the Lahti Symphony's Sibelius
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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...