The MET has announced its 2013/2014 season and, we are pleased to say, the return of Levine. Alas however not one bit of Wagner is to be...
Met announce 2013/14. No live Wagner but 25 cd box-set
Wednesday, 27 February 2013
Tuesday, 26 February 2013
Django Unchained: Nietzsche's Siegfried Not Wagner's?
"Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is ...
Wolfgang Sawallisch, (1923-2013) Dies at 89
Obituary from the Guardian below. Once described as "a sphinx in a tailcoat", the German conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch, who ha...
Saturday, 23 February 2013
The Wagnerian Review of the Gergiev Walkure:
Wagner: Die Walküre Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), René Pape (Wotan), Jonas Kaufmann (Siegmund), Anja Kampe (Sieglinde), Mikhail Petrenko (Hu...
Review: Fulham Opera Siegfried
Reviewed by Paul Kilbey at Bachtrack You have to sit in a small Fulham church, on a pretty uncomfortable chair, for at least four hou...
Shakespeare and The Flying Dutchman
Another excellent article from Dave Paxton in his ongoing investigation that the works of Shakespeare had upon Wagner and his drama. He tu...
Wagner: Fact and Fiction
In honor of the Wagner bicentennial in 2013, German publishers are going all out when it comes to the Romantic-era composer. DW's Anas...
Jonas Kaufmann On Wagner: 'It's Like A Drug Sometimes'
Audio interview with Jonas Kaufmann talking about Wagner over at NPR. Click the link at the bottom to hear the entire interview On Wagner...
Saturday, 16 February 2013
Video Excerpts: MET Parsifal with Kaufmann/Pape plus photo gallery
Some tickets still available. And failing that it can be seen at a cinema somewhere world wide in March. See here for full international c...
Thursday, 14 February 2013
Wagner featured prominently at new International Opera Awards
"Please, please, let us win something" The new International Opera Awards, to be held in London, April 22 2013, feature a num...
Wagnerian soprano Christine Brewer understands devotion of composer's fans
By Rich Copley — rcopley@herald-leader.com Christine Brewer knows the stereotypes of Richard Wagner's music: huge drama, huge voice...
Weekend with Richard Wagner and Brno Philharmonic Orchestra in Munich
The Brno Philharmonic Orchestra will perform three concerts at the beginning of May in two largest concert halls in Munich, the city of mu...
Jay Hunter Morris pulls out of LA Operas Dutchman
According to his agent, "a severe case of gastroenteritis," has meant that Jay Hunter Morris is unable to attend rehearsals for ...
Wagner 200 - London - Full details Inc New Parsifal
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As previously noted, 2013 will see a full range of Wagner related events in London. These form part of Wagner 200 and will include, as p...
Wednesday, 13 February 2013
Leipzig Celebrates its Famous Son Richard Wagner in 2013
LEIPZIG, Germany, February 13, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Leipzig is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner...
Wagner: Welcomes Opinions?
Despite a less than overwhelming number of voters (honestly, if your one of the many, many , many people that visit, didn't vote and...
Monday, 11 February 2013
Warner's buy EMI Classics and Virgin Classics
Universal Music Group, the world’s largest record company, is to sell the Parlophone Label Group - which includes EMI Classics and Virgi...
A Wagnerian Interview. Ben Woodward, & why its good to be compared to Bayreuth
Ben Woodward We noted Fulham Opera's continuing Ring cycle as one of the highlights of Wagner in London last year. A production with...
MET/Lepage Ring Cycle Wins Grammy Award - Best Opera Recording
The award has been given for the DVD release. It would appear the Grammy's still make no distinction between these and opera audio o...
Listen to: Walkure - Kaufmann, Stemme, Kampe, Petrenko and Pape. (Spotify)
And so the Gergiev "all star" Ring cycle begins The new digital Ring to replace all others? Well, now you can decide. Anja ...
Listen to: Kaufmann Wagner. Runnicles (Spotify)
Kaufmann as Siegfried is certainly intriguing. Jonas Kaufmann Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Donald Runnicles
"For Wagner, there were good Germans and bad Germans, good Jews and bad Jews.” Irad Atir
When we mange to track down a full copy of Dr Irad Atir's paper we will reprint it if possible. The legendary German composer wasn...
Bryn Terfel splits from his wife of 25 years
We hate gossip, even when its confirmed, but better it comes from here perhaps. We hope the tabloids leave at what is below but would susp...
Have something to say? Wagner always did
As regular readers will be aware, we have always kept away from allowing commenting on articles over the years (Years? Already?). However...
ROH masterclass: Gwyneth Jones: 28 May 2013
Acclaimed as one of the greatest Wagner sopranos of the second half of the 20th century, Gwyneth Jones appeared at nearly every Bayreut...
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
New Wagner Book: The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia
Nicholas Vazsonyi Should you have a spare £120 then the following maybe of interest: The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia Edited by: Nic...
Video preview Of COC's New Tristan und Isolde
Critics have been calling it the "return" of Ben Heppner to form. We can assure you, this began in Birmingham last year. We ...
Jonas Kaufmann to make his Carnegie Hall debut
Announcing a season heavy in Russian music and marking Britten's Centenary, Carnegie Hall had little of interest to Wagnerites apa...
Sunday, 3 February 2013
Wotan goes to the movies & finds Wagner everywhere
From: Wotan At The Movies Cowboys and Aliens: Or how I learned to stop worrying and look for the Wagner references 3 out of 5 Sta...
Saturday, 2 February 2013
Janice Baird rides out while Alwyn Mellor rides in: Paris Opera, Walkure/Siegfried
Alwyn Mellor, originally engaged to sing three performances of each work, will now sing all the performances as Brünnhilde in the Paris ...
Callas performs the "Liebestod" 1949 & 1957
When diva's were Divas.
Janowski Wagner Rolls On: Tannhauser - Nina Stemme, Robert Dean Smith
Now available and should you have Spotify and wish to listen before buying then so be it.
The Ring Cycle for Saxophone Quartet
We enjoyed this far more than we thought we would.: excerpts from The Ring of Richard Wagner, arranged by Gijs Kramers, The Ring in 2...
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