For Whom The Bell Tolls: Baumgarten's Tannhäuser It Seems
Sebastian Baumgarten's "affectionately" nick named "biomass Tannhäuser" has been axed. It seems that not even Bayreuth could put up with the jokes anymore and this year will be the last time that Baumgarten's "controversial" production of Tannhauser will see the light of day.
Its future slots will be filled instead with Hans Neuenfels Lohengrin. Seems people might be upset by a biomass factory but are just big softies for pink mice. All together now: Aww!
GGS double bill
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This year’s fall opera offering from the Glenn Gould School was a double
bill of short chamber operas. It played at Mazzoleni Hall on Friday and
Saturday ...
Horton - Chopin and Bach, 29 October 2025
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Wigmore Hall
*Chopin:* Prelude in C-sharp minor, op.45
*Bach: *English Suite no.2 in A minor, BWV 807
*Chopin: *Waltz in A minor, op.34 no.2; Fantasy in ...
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...