Rheingold, Bayreuth 1876 Only productions that have at least announced their principle casts have been included. As always, we c...
Updated: Complete Ring Cycles Productions: 2013
Monday, 31 December 2012
Friday, 28 December 2012
Contributors/Articles Wanted
Over time, we have found some of our best articles, reviews, monographs and academic papers submitted by external sources. With that in mi...
Wednesday, 26 December 2012
Watch Glyndebourne's Tristan und Isolde now & free.
If you missed our earlier article on this Glyndebourne's first Tristan und Isolde, it is now being streamed free live at the Guardi...
The Third Man? Both Barry Millington & Wagner Society Victoria reply
We have noted what has become in some quarters a rather "heated" debate about a Daguerreotype found by the Kaplan Collection whic...
Monday, 24 December 2012
A Digital Christmas Card from the Wagnerian: Kirsten Flagstad, Eugene Ormandy,: Ah, Perfido (1937)
Yes, it's that time of year again, and as I hate wasting paper (all those poor trees) you, regular readers ( and contributors, bloggers,...
Friday, 21 December 2012
Wagner at the 30? The Wagner Society speaks
"In March 1844 Richard Wagner was 30 and living in Dresden. In his autobiography, Mein Leben, he recounts “no recollections of any impo...
Saturday, 15 December 2012
Is this the earliest photo of Richard Wagner?
The Kaplan Collection have published the daguerreotype below - taken in either March or April 1844. Making an not unreasoned argument, Kap...
Wednesday, 12 December 2012
Watch act 3 of ROH Walkure internationally and on demand
As part of the new partnership between the Guardian and the ROH, the Guardian website will broadcast Act 3 of this years Walkure - from mu...
Johannes Debus to take the baton from Jiří Bělohlávek : Tristan und Isolde, Canadian Opera Company
Toronto – Canadian Opera Company Music Director Johannes Debus conducts his first Tristan und Isolde when he leads the COC Orchestra a...
Tuesday, 11 December 2012
Trailer: Lohengrin - Teatro alla Scala 2012-2013
11, 14, 18, 21, 27 December 2012 Cast Lohengrin - Jonas Kaufmann Elsa - Anja Harteros / Annette Dasch Telramund - Tomas...
Monday, 10 December 2012
Wagner makes the front pages of the Italian media - again
"This choice is a smack for Italian art, a blow for national pride in a moment of crisis," Corriere della Sera One hundred an...
Saturday, 8 December 2012
Dijon Opera announce new Ring Cycle in 2013 - in two days!
Dijon Opera have announced that in 2013 they will perform an entirely new, fully staged Ring Cycle in a festival lasting just two days! E...
Video: Jonas Kaufmann In Conversation
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Originally brought to our attention by the always excellent Sounds and Fury . In English - despite the French titles. And if you have...
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Jonathan Harvey: 3 May 1939 - 4 December 2012,
Included below is both part of the obituary in yesterdays Guardian and his opera about Wagner's last few minutes - Wagner Dream. If yo...
Sunday, 2 December 2012
Wagner Spotify Playlist: Wagner Complete Operas (DG: 2012)
We have already mentioned the DG " Wagner: The Complete Operas" If you are thinking of buying it but would like to listen to ...
Thursday, 29 November 2012
Available Again: Ring Resounding: The Recording of Der Ring Des Nibelungen (Preview)
Random House have reissued John Culshaw's 1968 book on the making of the Solti Ring. Available in both paperback and Ebook formats. Be...
Book Review: Richard Wagner’s Women - "We know no one crueller"
Originally published in Times Literary Supplement and made available by the author, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial...
Tuesday, 27 November 2012
Salzburg Summer Festival 2013 to include Die Meistersinger and Rienzi,
Better late than never? Blame an ailing memory. Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg New production Dates: 2, 9, 12, ...
Full Wagner drama to be performed for the first time in the Middle East - 2013
The Lebanese Al Bustan Festival brings the first Wagner opera to the Middle East for its 20th Anniversary Artistic Director Gianluca Ma...
DW to celebrate Wagner Bicentennial on Internet, TV and DVD
Deutsche Welle (DW) is celebrating the upcoming 200th anniversary of German composer Richard Wagner's birth on May 22, 2013 with the T...
Monday, 26 November 2012
Very Much Off Topic: The Last Remaining Blue Whale
We hope we can be forgiven just this once (it won't become a trend we promise) but we are "fans" of both Rutger Hauer and t...
In Discussion with Barry Millington: "A kind of Damascus experience on the road to Southend pier"
We recently had the opportunity to spend some time with one of Britain's – and perhaps the English speaking worlds - most well known W...
Saturday, 24 November 2012
Tristan to finally make its Florida premiere: Florida Grand Opera 2013-2014
Susan Danis, FGO's General Director Announcing its 2013-2014 season, Florida Grand Opera have confirmed that they will be mounting ...
Saturday, 17 November 2012
Cambridge University Press to reprint Newman's 4 volume "Life Of Richard Wagner"
Perhaps the most complete biography of Wagner ever written; Ernest Newman's four volume "Life of Richard Wagner" will be made ...
Book Overview & Preview: Hermann Levi: From Brahms to Wagner
Available in print and electronic format. Alas, it is presently sitting in a pile of very interesting books to be read. However, once we ...
Nicholas Wroe in conversation with Semyon Bychkov
The engagement diary of a leading conductor can reveal many things: musical taste, status, popularity with players, administrators and au...
Sunday, 11 November 2012
Another Wagner Box Set: Wagner's Vision: Bayreuth Heritage
They really are coming "hard and fast", but this one is a little different to the others so far - with a few real "treats...
New Wagner Box Set: "The Other Wagner"
The Wagner boxsets just keep coming and the newest one is the aptly titled "The Other Wagner" - just released by EMI. In a break f...
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