Video Lecture: Mark Berry ""Hans Werner Henze, Wagner, and the Weight of German Musical Culture"
Mark Berry at Bayreuth
You can continue to read Dr Berry's thoughts on Wagner and much else over at "The Boulezian"
From the American leg of the Wagner World Wide set of conferences, organized by Professors Nicholas Vazsonyi and Julie
Hubbert, held at the School of Music on the campus of the University of
South Carolina (USA) 30 January - 2 February 2013.
Opera Revue (alcohol free edition)
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Regular readers will know that I’ve seen my fair share of shows by Opera
Revue but pretty much always in a bar or pub and as the band always says
“The more...
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...