Interstellar Galactomic Nabucco
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The 2025 production of Verdi’s Nabucco recorded in the Arena di Verona is
nothing if not spectacular; visually and vocally. One might ask though if
it’s an...
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The truth about "The Truth About Wagner": Daniel Carroll
Daniel Carroll critically evaluates and investigates the background of Hurn and Root's infamous book The Truth About Wagner. A well res... Read on →
The FT selects it's "Best of the Ring" on CD and DVD
Andrew Clarke at the FT has selected, what some might consider a rather intriguing if idiosyncratic, list of best recordings of the Ring ... Read on →
Opera Australia 2013: Wagner, Verdi and Britten
WAGNER and Verdi stand like monoliths on the musical landscape next year, but the demands of staging the grandest of grand opera mean the ... Read on →
Video Lecture:- Wagner: Sublime Beauty with a Sinister Soul
A lecture around Richard Wagner and Das Rheingold — "Sublime Beauty with a Sinister Soul? Wagner's Music, his Antisemitism, and... Read on →
Andris Nelsons renews contract with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra announced today that Andris Nelsons, one of the world’s most sought after conductors, will be e... Read on →
Audio lecture: The Music of Götterdämmerung: Finding an End and Closing the Circle
Audioclip from a lecture by Jeffrey Swann, Pianist and Musicologist, given May 3, 2012. One can listen to the complete 59 minute lectur... Read on →
Audio Interview: Nina Stemme
Plus Mark Delavan - recorded May 22 3012 Youtube excerpt below, full 47 minute interview hosted by the Wagner Society of New York and c... Read on →
Free Kindle Book: The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.- Nietzsche
No one does a put down like Nietzsche: Also, in HTML, and EPUB. Click the link to download - or in the case of the HTML file read online. ... Read on →
What Jonathan Meese's Bayreuth Parsifal might look like.
Perhaps not that well known but Jonathan Meese has already presented a version of Parsifal in 2005. Admittedly not an opera production but o... Read on →
Jonathan Meese goes to Bayreuth, draws some swastikas and why the Wagnerian is saying nothing
Update: Added Meese's discussion of the dictatorship of art and the neutrality of the swastika. People have asked why the Wagnerian h... Read on →
The Wagnerian Caption Competition No 2: Bernard Haitink, LSO, Beethoven 9
Finding myself with a few spare credits at emusic that need to be used before the month recycles (don't ask, they use a very odd subscri... Read on →
And the winner is: The Wagnerian Caption Competition 1 (redux)
Have to say that in the interest of fairness one asked some people not involved in The Wagnerian to judge. Plus, there were far to many entr... Read on →
The Psychopathology of Richard Wagner: Daniel John Carroll
Below is the first in a series of papers from Wagner scholar Daniel J Carroll (I include Daniel's brief bio below). In what follows, he... Read on →
New Issue of Wagner Journal now available: Includes, Hitler, Rienzi, and the Trustworthiness of "The Young Hitler I Knew"
Current issue The July 2012 issue (vol.6, no.2), now available, contains the following feature articles: • The New Wagnerian Menagerie: ... Read on →
International Wagner Conference 2013: " Richard Wagner’s Impact on His World and Ours"
To mark the 200th anniversary in May 2013 of the birth of Richard Wagner, the School of Music, University of Leeds, in collaboration with ... Read on →
St Louis to get first Ring Cycle in over 80 years
Or at lest in the form of Johnathon Dove's adoption. From Union Avenue Opera - never let it be said that you have to be an opera compan... Read on →
Watch free, for 24 hours: Hans Jürgen Syberberg's Parsifal
Syberberg's much lauded, 1982 film of Parsifal is to finally receive its DVD re-release in September (it will also be available to downl... Read on →
MET/Lepage Ring Cycle to get DVD/Blu-Ray released 9/9/12 plus much more
To be released by Deutsche Grammophon on 9/9/12 the complete cycle will be available on 8 DVDs and 5 Blu-ray discs. Suggested retail pric... Read on →
Why the Wagners must leave Bayreuth.
"Oh, look. The locals are greeting us with burning torches" The following is printed in the comment section of yesterdays Gu... Read on →
The Wagnerian Caption Competition 1 (redux) Knappertsbusch, Tristan und Isolde
Ok, I have a little confession to make: The first Caption Competition went a little wrong as I somehow managed to lose most of the entries... Read on →
Watch Now & on demand: Jonas Kaufmann - Ariadne auf Naxos. Salzburg
Exclusive: Kaufmann is a member of the Beth Lynch Fan Club Well, in 3 hours time should you have arrived here at BST 14:21 but I w... Read on →
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