The first opera by a woman composer?
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The work under consideration here is Francesca Caccini’s Il liberazione di
Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina. Written as a court entertainment in Florence
in 16...
6 hours ago
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... Read on →
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... Read on →
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... Read on →
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... Read on →
Photos: Melbourne Ring - Götterdämmerung
November 25 Siegfried Stefan Vinke Gunther Barry Ryan Alberich Warwick Fyfe Hagen Daniel Sumegi Brünnhilde Susan Bullock Gutrune Sharon... Read on →
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... Read on →
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 ... Read on →
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... Read on →
Melbourne Siegfried: First Images
November 22 Siegfried Stefan Vinke Brünnhilde Susan Bullock Erda Deborah Humble Mime Graeme Macfarlane The Wanderer Terje Ste... Read on →
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... Read on →
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... Read on →
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 ... Read on →
"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 ... Read on →
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... Read on →
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... Read on →
Images & Video: Melbourne Die Walküre
Arts Centre Melbourne, November 20. Photos: Jeff Busby. Read on →
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... Read on →
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... Read on →
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... Read on →
Melbourne Ring: First Extend Video Trailers
Care of Limelight Magazine - where a review can be found. Read on →
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. ... Read on →
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... Read on →
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... Read on →
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... Read on →
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... Read on →
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... Read on →
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 on →
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... Read on →
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