A video interview with Ben Heppner: WNO's Tristan & Isolde
Ben Heppner talks about his performance of Tristan for WNO - which critics have described as an "heartening return to form". I have also included, an "audience reaction" video of the production from WNO below. This is probably of interest more for the brief video clips of the production itself than anything else - and the odd snippet of Goodall's Tristan.
Lohengrin with a twist
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Sometimes opera directors come up with a twist to a plot hat is
illuminating without requiring pretzel logic to actually align it with the
libretto. I thi...
Takács Quartet/Ridout - Mozart, 20 October 2025
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Wigmore Hall
String Quintet in C major, KV 515; String Quintet in G minor, KV 516
Edward Dusinberre
Harumi Rhodes (violins)
Richard O’Neill, Timothy Ri...
Parsifal in the Metaverse
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PARSIFAL at OPERA VLAANDEREN is a musical triumph that drowns in visual
excess. With its tension between music and image – between transcendence
and techno...
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...
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...