Cast Daland: Clive Bayley Senta : Orla Boylan Erik: Stuart Skelton Mary: Susanna Tudor-Thomas Der Steuermann: Robert Murr...
Watch: The ENO Flying Dutchman Trailer
Monday, 30 April 2012
Sunday, 29 April 2012
Olive Fremstad sings Isolde "Mild und leise wie er lächelt"
Alex Ross has just posted the following: "The 'Liebestod' as Fremstad sang it was a paean to annihilation," Samuel Ch...
Listen to the VSO/Thielemann Ring Cycle, on-demand for 7 days
ORF is presently broadcasting the Thielemann lead Vienna State Opera production of the Ring Cycle from 2011. They began Friday with Rheingol...
Anna Picard talks to Stuart Skelton
A great, blond bear of an Australian, with a voice of unparalleled beauty and strength, Stuart Skelton has made his career playing the man...
Saturday, 28 April 2012
If you missed tonights MET Walkure you can catch it here on-demand
Should be available for the next 7 days or so. While there are always a number of options from various radio stations I find RTE Lyric ...
Listen to: Jonathan Harvey's Wagner Dream. BBC Radio 3, 05/05/2012 & 7 days thereafter
UPDATE: NOW AVAILABLE ON DEMAND FOR 7 DAYS. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN The dying Wagner reflects on his unfinished Buddhist opera, and is reco...
Tom Service in conversation with Kent & Gardner re ENO's new Dutchman
Tom Service: This, for both of you, is your first professional Wagner production. Is it a good place for Wagner-virgins in the audience to...
Kaufmann ill, Frank van Aken stands in at METs Walkure
It never rains but it pours for the METs Ring Cycle, so much so, it is sometimes very difficult to keep up. But one could do worse than Van ...
Listen Live (28/04/12): Die Walkure (MET)
Available at an number of different online sources (see second link below for most options). Starts 3:00 PM GMT. I have linked straight to B...
Updated Contact Address
I have updated the contact email address. Should you so wish, and don't be shy, contact us with news of: Wagner related events, books, p...
Toby Spence: recovering from thyroid cancer
While the ROH's recent revival of Graham Vick’s Meistersinger was not an unanimous success among critics, there was certainly one thing ...
Friday, 27 April 2012
Will Fitzgibbon in discussion with Stuart Skelton about appearing in The Dutchman and Walküre in the same month
It is hard to imagine that this sort of thing was far more common for Wagner performers. WHEN the scheduled tenor for the English Nation...
Watch: The Barenboim/Kupfer Parsifal Trailer
Been meaning to get around to this for some time. Sorry about the delay. Following EuroArts description below are three reviews from: Supe...
Thursday, 26 April 2012
Watch: Deutsche Oper Berlin, Lohengrin - the trailer
Edit: Oops! Forgetting to include the video is a little embarrassing. Now back where it belongs And lest you missed the details: ...
Free Ebooks: Letters of Franz Liszt Vol 1 & 2
"My daughter, Frau von Bulow, writes to me that Wagner's new work "Die Meistersinger" is a marvel, and amongst other thin...
New Issue Of Wagner Journal Now Available. Includes: Wagner’s English lover Jessie Laussot
The March 2012 issue (vol.6, no.1), now available, contains the following feature articles: • in ‘Jews, Music and Wagner’, David Conway, a...
ENO announce 2013 season, but Wagner's bicentenary will not be noted
ENO have announced their 2013 season but surprisingly, while marking Britten's centenary and Verdi's bicentenary, they may be one...
Wednesday, 25 April 2012
The Wagnerian: New look, new address and "fighting the man - man"
As regular readers may be aware, I have recently changed the design of the site. Very observant readers may note - once this 301 starts work...
Monday, 23 April 2012
Missed the MET's broadcast of Siegfried on Saturday? Listen to it here - on-demand
Sorry, I have been so busy that I forgot to post this earlier. If you missed Saturday's (21/04/12) broadcast of Siegfried from the M...
Lepage discusses making changes to the METs Ring Cycle - it makes less noise now.
“But when you see them as a package, it’s like connecting Christmas tree lights. "Mr. Lepage finished the sentence w...
Horowitz plays Wagner-Liszt Isolde's Liebestod
It took the legendary pianist three separate days to record this piece to his satisfaction, and he died a mere four days after its com...
Wagner Society Of New York Launches New YouTube Channel
I have already posted some videos from the NYWS but it had recently occurred to me that I had not mentioned the YouYube channel itself...
Sunday, 22 April 2012
J. S. MARCUS reviews: Deutsche Oper's Lohengrin
BERLIN—On any given night during the Cold War, West Berlin's Deutsche Oper could lay claim to being Germany's best opera company. ...
The Wagnerian gets a makeover
After a, very brief, beta test, I have updated the site. The main reasons are: 1 To speed up load times - especially on slower connections...
Help needed!
I am presently "beta testing" a new look for the blog, in an attempt to make it more user friendly, to allow things to be foun...
Saturday, 21 April 2012
New Book: The History of Singing - John Potter and Neil Sorrell
Highly interesting, although I am "saddened" at a Kindle price of £44 at the moment. But I suppose that is an entirely different s...
“The Unknown Wagner-Humperdinck Collaboration: Lecture at Boston Wagner Society - April 22 2012
I came across this over at the Boston Wagner Society and thought that if you were in the area you might be interested. A little background...
Friday, 20 April 2012
La Scala announce Wagner/Verdi dominated 2012-13 Season. Opening with new Lohengrin: Kaufmann, Pape, Harteros & Barenboim
La Scala has just announced its 2012-2013 season. Perhaps unsurprisingly, this will be dominated by both Wagner and Verdi. With Wagner in m...
While Wotan goes wrestling Jonas Kaufmann goes Boxing
I have already reported below, on Performance Lab 115's adaption of the Ring as a WWF wrestling event (which is at least intelligent...
Der Ring des Nibelungen: The Wrestling Match (Includes "Wotan goes to the MET")
In my ongoing mission to bring the Wagner news no one else in their right minds would, I present this introduction from Artinfo's Benja...
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