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...
Comment: Australia's Only Classical Music Magazine Bows Out?
Saturday, 30 November 2013
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...
Monday, 25 November 2013
Mendelssohn Hero or Has Been? Or Did Wagner Really Do It?
"For critics like Marx and Brendel, this task could only be fulfilled by a progressive art fully reconciled with the strivings of the...
Photos: Melbourne Ring - Götterdämmerung
November 25 Siegfried Stefan Vinke Gunther Barry Ryan Alberich Warwick Fyfe Hagen Daniel Sumegi Brünnhilde Susan Bullock Gutrune Sharon...
Trailer Die Frau Ohne Schatten - Bayerische Staatsoper
50 years ago, on 21 November 1963, the Bayerische Staatsoper’s main performance venue, the Munich National Theatre, which had been des...
Sunday, 24 November 2013
Video: Panel Discussion Following Hilan Warshaw's "Wagner's Jews"
Panel discussion following screening of Hilan Warshaw's documentary "Wagner's Jews" organised by the Wagner Society ...
Saturday, 23 November 2013
Richard Wagner On His Desire For Perfumes,Silk, Colours & Snuff.
Caricature titled ‘Frou Frou Wagner’ published in Der Floh, on 24 June 1877, showing journalist Daniel Spitzer standing on a cache of l...
Melbourne Siegfried: First Images
November 22 Siegfried Stefan Vinke Brünnhilde Susan Bullock Erda Deborah Humble Mime Graeme Macfarlane The Wanderer Terje Ste...
Wagner & Seinfeld: Die Meistersinger von Monk’s
Michael Teager Michael Teager is an experienced performing musician, both as a leader and a sideman. Currently, Mike serves on the facu...
Friday, 22 November 2013
Britten Explains How Peter Grimes Rejects the Wagnerian theory of "permanent melody"
Britten's introduction to Peter Grimes The composer wrote this introduction to his opera prior to its first performance at London's...
Review. Richard Wagner: The Lighter Side - Terry Quinn
Where would we be without 7000 page, 6 volume, explorations of whether, by completing volume 6 of Wagner's prose works ( Religion and ...
Thursday, 21 November 2013
"Wagner's Jews": Trailer
A review can be read over at Seen and Heard International “This film brings to light new insights into this topic, and manages to be ...
Theatre Freiburg's Parsifal & Tannhauser To Reach UK In 2014
As part of an event titled WagnerFest 2014, the Theatre Royal Norwich will host Theater Freiburg's production of Parsifa l and the...
The Ring, The Taxidermist and Richard Wagner
Reviewing the Melbourne Ring we could not help but notice the amount of "stuffed animals" that littered Valhalla . This brought...
Images & Video: Melbourne Die Walküre
Arts Centre Melbourne, November 20. Photos: Jeff Busby.
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
Looking Back at 2013 - Part 1: Good Wagnerians And Bad Wagnerians
First in a series of articles looking back on 2013 This year has been somewhat of an exhausting one for me. Now, of course, one might e...
Should We Really Fund Wagner?
Published in Performing Arts Hub . As Opera Australia mount their $20 million Ring cycle Julian Meryrick asks can we defend such funding fo...
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Review: Wagner, His Life and Music - Stephen Johnson.
"For me, it was the experience of hearing Parsifal again in the legendary Hans Knappertsbuch recording that made me realise how impo...
Melbourne Ring: First Extend Video Trailers
Care of Limelight Magazine - where a review can be found.
Monday, 18 November 2013
First Images Of The Melbourne Ring
The Melbourne Ring Cycle 2013 - Das Rheingold. November 18 2013. More: Melbourne Ring Click any image to enter full sized gallery. ...
New Wagner Book: Tristan's Shadow - Adrian Daub
All details below are those supplied by the publisher - hence all the "revering and reviling". Expect a review - at some stage. Du...
Sunday, 17 November 2013
Audio: Wagner: Making a National Hero
Part Of Radio 4's Wagner week from earlier this year. Stephen Johnson explores the worlds of Wagner's heroes and how his Tan...
Video: Wagner And Anti-Semitism
The question of 19th century German composer Richard Wagner's personal and musical anti-Semitism became a topic of enormous contro...
Friday, 15 November 2013
It Ain't Over Till...Met To Revive Lepage Ring
Despite rumors to the contrary, it seems that Lepage's "machine" will return to the MET at least once more - albeit in five...
Mariinsky Ring Cycle Returns To UK In 2014
Last seen in the UK at Covent Garden in 2009 (Ed: Although perhaps not to universal acclaim) the Gergiev/Tsypin Ring is to return to these s...
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Read Now: Wagner And His Isolde
Venice, December 22, 1858. " An exquisite morning, my dear child ! Three days I had been at the passage, " Whom you embrace...
Read: Carl Friedrich Glasenapp's 6 Volume "Life Of Richard Wagner"
The first major Wagner Biography, Glasenapp's 6 volume Life Of Richard Wagner may no longer be considered the most reliable review...
Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra Perform Wagner Concert But With No Wagner
Theodor Herzl.: Founder Of Zionism &; Wagnerian The playing of Wagner's music in Israel is of course not "banned" - at...
The Life and Works of Richard Wagner: The Barbican - 30 November
The Life and Works of Richard Wagner (PG*) 4pm / With live piano accompaniment by Jean Hasse30 November 2013 / 16:00 Cinema 1 (Silk...
New Walkure Production: Verismo Opera, CA
Having begun their projected Ring cycle in 2011 with Rheingold, VO turn to Die Walkure, with a new production opening on November 16, 2013. ...
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