It has just been noted that although many people outside of Germany have seen photos of the 2013 Castorf Ring few have seen video of the...
Video Of Castorf/Bayreuth Ring - 2013
Tuesday, 31 December 2013
Der Ring des Nibelungen (Complete) Performances - 2014
Berlin Der Ring des Nibelungen Deutsche Oper Berlin 21 September 2013 to 12 January 2014 (two cycles)
Lohengrin Performances - 2014
Weimar Lohengrin Nationaltheater Weimar New production 7 September 2013 to 18 April 2014 Graz Lohengrin Opernhau...
Tristan Und Isolde Performances - 2014
Lübeck Tristan und Isolde Theater Lübeck New production 6 October 2013 to 11 May 2014 Meiningen Tristan und Isol...
Tannhauser Performances - 2014
We are beginning our performance calender for 2014. Alas, with a number of other projects on the go at the moment - including the Readers...
Tuesday, 24 December 2013
A Very Wagnerian Christmas Present: Siegfried Idyll
Never let it be said that we would forget about the many, many thousands of you that find things of interest here each month. For puttin...
Sunday, 22 December 2013
"None" Wagner Concert Disrupted But Not Stopped
Peaceful protesters outside of the event As previously noted, the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, found that the only way it could note Wa...
Lyric Opera Of Chicago Announce New Ring Cycle
Alas, very little information at the moment apart from that below. Lyric Opera of Chicago will present its second new production of Ri...
Wagner at the cinema - warts and all - win viewers
Perhaps the most famous kiss in opera, when the temptress witch Kundry seduces the know-nothing hero of Richard Wagner's "Parsifa...
Monday, 16 December 2013
The Wagnerian Readers Choice Awards - 2013. Stage 1 Semi Finals: The Singers
Most awards in the arts are provided by experts and critics in that field. Alas, few, if any, rely on the opinions of those that listen to a...
Friday, 13 December 2013
Listen To: ROH Parsifal (2013) Ondemand For 5 Days
Care of BBC Radio 3. Click the link below to listen. Parsifal. ....Simon O'Neill (tenor) Kundry.....Angela Denoke (soprano) G...
The Real Cause Of Mime's “Compulsive plague! Pain without end!”
In a paper published in the Christmas edition of The BMJ, researchers have looked at how German composer Richard Wagner’s disabling migrai...
Wednesday, 11 December 2013
BBC Radio 3 To Rebroadcast Barenboim/Proms Ring - Dec 2013
If you were unfortunate enough to miss the Prom's Ring cycle in the summer, fear not. During December BBC Radio 3 will rebroadcast i...
Wagner's Magic Lamp: an ongoing mystery - David Conway
The following article is reproduced with the very kind permission of the author Dr David Conway - whose book Jewry in Music we shall feat...
Monday, 9 December 2013
"Brunhilde's Act" Or Wagner Dear? Was it as difficult for you as it was for me?
Deputy Editor, Frederick Oswald , introduces a talk - and accompanying paper - by the " Elvis of cultural theory", Slavoj Žižek...
Sunday, 8 December 2013
Read Or Download: Richard Wagner's letters to his Dresden friends
Apart from the PDF download - and the online version - the formating is not perfect. However, as an epub or kindle file it remains readab...
Saturday, 7 December 2013
Grammy Awards 2014: Thielemann, Kaufmann & Runnicles Nominated
Admittedly one has to go far down the nominations list to find the "Classical" section, but there, hidden away from the horrif...
Leipzig, Dresden & Bayreuth: The Places That Helped Shape Wagner
A short mini documentary from DW that tours the places (if only those in Germany) that would have helped shape Wagner and his music.
DVD Boxset: Lohengrin, Tannhäuser, Rienzi
A boxset from Arthaus Musik earlier this year - details below. We might not normally mention it apart from the fact that Amazon (Other r...
Friday, 6 December 2013
BBC Radio 3 - Wagner Weekend 7 - 8 Dec
This weekend, BBC Radio 3 is having a "Wagner Weekend" consisting of a series of programs, unsurprisingly, with a Wagner theme....
Thursday, 5 December 2013
Free Online Audio Lecture Series:Wagner, Freud and the End of Myth (Inc: Bryan Magee)
In September, the Freud Museum i n London, held a one day conference named, "Wagner, Freud and the End of Myth " With a set of ...
Wednesday, 4 December 2013
First Winners Of Wagner Society Singers Competition
Winners: Catrin Aur & Paul Carey-Jones with Sir John Tomlinson Readers may remember the "furore" at the London Wagner S...
Apology & Correction: Wagner Is Not To Be Replaced By Aging Hippies After All
Correction Pink Floyd? We recently reported the blight of Dalhalla Opera , whose productions, including a continuation of their Rin...
Tuesday, 3 December 2013
Rare Screening "The Life and Works of Richard Wagner" Jan 2014. Barbican.
This newly restored silent landmark was the first feature-length film to be made about the composer Richard Wagner, featuring Italian co...
Asher Fisch Says Barenboim Was Wrong In Breaking Israel's Wagner Boycott
In a revealing article in Limelight Magazine , Asher Fisch discusses both Wagner and the time that he (Fisch), spent with Barenboim in s...
Monday, 2 December 2013
Photos: Parsifal ROH December 2013
Parsifal, Royal Opera House December 2013. A HD presentation will be broadcast to cinemas worldwide on December 18. To find a cinema nea...
Sunday, 1 December 2013
The Leonard Bernstein Letters: On Wagner, Mahler, Bruckner & Strauss
The recently published, The Leonard Bernstein Letters are fascinating. If you have not bought this extraordinary historical record we ca...
Ring Cycle Ousted By Aging Hippies And Eurovision Runners-up
Edit: See Correction And so "classical" music takes another hit as Dalhalla Opera is told that booking time that was to go to ...
Saturday, 30 November 2013
Comment: Australia's Only Classical Music Magazine Bows Out?
Its a sad fact that we are at a time when large publishing interests - there are not that many of them - continue to eat away at their art...
Friday, 29 November 2013
Trailer: Wagner's Lost "Opera": Männerlist größer als Frauenlist - Soon On DVD
"The likelihood of previously unknown music of Wagner's coming to light over a century after his death might be thought remote. Yet...
Tuesday, 26 November 2013
Wagner's Meistersinger: Performance, History, Representation - Nicholas Vazsony
Another in our series of good Wagner books you may have missed - suitable for both the "educated reader" (whatever that might mean...
Honour Thy German Masters: Wagner’s Depiction of “Meistergesang”
Welsh National Opera's Meistersinger (To be revived 2015) Originally published in: The Journal Of Musicological Explorations (Vol...
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