The recital was originally scheduled for Saturday 1 June. However, La Scala has just announced that Jonas Kaufmann has had to withdra...
Jonas Kaufmann Withdraws From La Scala Recital Due To Illness
Friday, 31 May 2013
Trailer: Parsifal. Salzburg Easter Festival . DVD
Christian Thielemann on Deutsche Grammophon. The opera was recorded at the Salzburg Easter Festival earlier in 2013. The cast includes...
Janowski Begins His Second Ring Cycle On CD. Listen Here
It must be said that not many conductors have been given the chance to record the Ring even once, never-mind twice, but this is the case w...
Thursday, 30 May 2013
Nina Stemme In New Tristan Production
It seems after what will be a long absence, Nina Stemme will be appearing twice at the MET: first in Elektra and then in a new Willy Deck...
Lohengrin singer proposes at dress rehearsal...
No pressure there then. But who said Lohengrin always turns out badly, when Welsh National Opera singer Joe Roche proposed on-stage to h...
Wednesday, 29 May 2013
New Wagner Documentary: "Wagner’s Jews"
It goes with out saying that despite Wagner's antisemitic writing, many of Wagner’s closest associates were Jews—young musicians who b...
Preview: The Gift. A New Wagner Dramatization/Performance. London 28 June
The Gift A dramatised re-creation by Barry Millington, of the events surrounding the first performance of the Siegfried Idyll, together w...
New Translation of "The Artwork Of The Future" Trans: Emma Warner
Published by the Wagner Journal and arguably central in assisting an understanding of Wagner's thought and work: Wagner 200 is proud t...
Tuesday, 28 May 2013
Off Topic Subject 2013: The RIAS Second Viennese School Project Berlin 1949-1965
The first of this years twice yearly "Off Topic" articles comes to us via the so called Second Viennese School and this remarkable...
Wagner Week may have finished but Wagner 200 has just begun: The Brochure
If you are in the UK, and London especially, and thought that the entire Wagner 200 thing was now over: The Wagner 200 brochure is no...
Monday, 27 May 2013
WNO Lohengrin. Listen On Demand For 7 Days
Cast: Lohengrin ..... Peter Wedd (tenor) Elsa ..... Emma Bell (soprano) Ortrud ..... Susan Bickley (mezzo-soprano) Friedrich von T...
The German stereotypes that turn out to be myths
Hard-working, efficient, humourless. There are many dubious stereotypes about Germany and its people. The build-up to this month's cel...
Saturday, 25 May 2013
The Wagnerian Reviews: "Wagner's Ring Cycle" Ipad App from Naxos
Back in 1997 "Media Café" released its now legendary "Ring Disc". A single CD Rom for PC that contained, in admittedly m...
Friday, 24 May 2013
Stephen Fry to Manage Wagner/Verdi Festival & Simon Callow To Star As Wagner
Simon Callow IS Richard Wagner This year’s Deloitte Ignite Festival at the ROH will be curated by Stephen Fry . A multi-media/multi-ar...
Thursday, 23 May 2013
Free Ebook. The Story Of The Greatest Wagnerian Soprano: Evelyn Innes by George Moore
George Moore "Wagner had been all his life dreaming of an opera with a subjective hero. Christ first and then Buddha had suggested ...
"Cor Blimey! Its Wagner On The Buses" - In Washington
The German embassy in Washington has covered two of the cities local buses in portraits of Richard Wagner. Its all to promote German c...
Wednesday, 22 May 2013
Becoming In Endless Melody: Tristan, Isolde, Wagner and Swinburne
Algernon Charles Swinburne From: Richard Wagner and the English: ' Wagner's Tristan und Isolde was completed in 1859, first perf...
Tuesday, 21 May 2013
Fake Bayreuth Tickets In Circulation.
Not the first time you might say but these are a little different, because they are being given away free to local residents in Bayreuth...
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If you want to make sure of buying the tickets of your choice for Seattle Opera's "Green Ring" before they go on general s...
Wagner 200: 'Ring of the Nibelungen' an animated scenic progression
Blair Parkinson, is an artist well known to us over on facebook and on his website. He has produced the following video to commemorate W...
Saturday, 18 May 2013
Daniel Barenboim In Conversation: Wagner & Ideology
We could not recommend this enough - if for nothing else than for Barenboim's discussion about conducting Wagner. The following is...
Wagner Bicentenary - One-Man Opera. Rhodes University SA
Readers will we are sure, recall Dr Jamie McGregor's Wagner/Tolkien paper " Two Rings To Rule Them All" which we reprinted h...
Friday, 17 May 2013
Wagner In New York
At "The New Yorker", Alex Ross imagines "what if" Wagner had acted on his thoughts of moving to the USA. Highly ...
Thursday, 16 May 2013
Richard Wagner’s Impact on His World and Ours, 30 May – 2 June 2013. Leeds
There really are a few of these we must get to . Highly recommended In association with the Royal Musical Association , Leeds Philosop...
SYMPOSIUM “WAGNER AND US”: MELBOURNE 5–8 DECEMBER 2013
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE 5–8 DECEMBER 2013 Scheduled to coincide with the performances of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen in Melbourne, 1...
Starting Saturday On BBC Radio 3 - "Wagner Week". Highlights Listed
From Saturday May 18, BBC Radio 3 will begin "Wagner Week", a series of programs specially commissioned to celebrate Wagner 200...
Wednesday, 15 May 2013
Donizetti: "La Favorite" Arranged for Two Violins by Richard Wagner
Imagine, if you will, that you are a young 26 year old artist living in Paris in 1840. And not any old artist mind, but a composer of long,...
British Library to Hold "Wagner Weekend" 8-9 June 2013
This looks rather interesting, with some names very familiar to regular readers. Far too many speakers to mention here (full details at t...
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