Queen City Chamber Opera , in collaboration with the Wagner Society of Cincinnati, continue to produce their Ring cycle - albeit one ac...
Watch Now: Siegfried Act 1.
Saturday, 20 December 2014
Friday, 19 December 2014
Who Is Richard Wagner? Paul Dawson-Bowling
The following is the introduction - especially adapted by the author - to Paul Dawson-Bowling's two volume introduction and anal...
Parsifal: Jonathan Meese Is Out And Uwe Eric Laufenberg Is In
Uwe Eric Laufenberg -sans mother or swastikas After Jonathan Meese's less than graceful exit from Bayreuth's 2016 Parsifal, ...
Nina Stemme: Tristan's Death Wish & Why Kundry Must Wait
While a typically pedestrian interview in someways - but one has to consider its audience and the journalists need to write for that au...
When Opera Directors Need To Step Back And Reevaluate Their Work
Düsseldorf Deutsche Oper am Rhein's Tannhauser. An interesting discussion from Jessica Duchen which asks "Should an opera prod...
Sunday, 7 December 2014
Lyric Opera's Ring - Reinterpreting Wagner?
Kearley, Sayers, Pountney, Lecca, and Matthew Rees With the sad and untimely death of Johan Engels, the remaining team behind Lyric ...
Friday, 28 November 2014
Dame Gwyneth Jones Discusses "The Wagner Experince"
We have had many guest authors here over the years but surely none can be as special as that of Dame Gwyneth Jones . In this review, Dam...
Latvian Wagner Coin Wins International Award
Just goes to prove there is no award Wagner cannot win. At the World Coin News’ Coin of the Year Award an international panel of judges ...
Sunday, 16 November 2014
The Wagnerian's Reader Choice Awards - 2014
Update: Due to a technical error (well, to be honest we thought we had closed the voting but we had not) we are keeping the polls open ti...
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - 10 Day Study Course
Opera in Depth with David Nice: Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Frontline Club 12 January – 16 March 2015 14.30...
Bayreuth Kick Jonathan Meese Out Of The Festival - Making Sense?
Johnathan Meese clearing out his desk at Bayreuth? Jonathan Meese has been a controversial figure from the moment he signed a contract w...
Saturday, 15 November 2014
Does Listening To Wagner Mess With Your Mind?
The following, free, event at the Birmingham Hippodrome looks very interesting, We will be there. Details from the organizers below: ...
Saturday, 1 November 2014
Wagner Related Thought Of The Day
One sometimes feels that no one has the measure of Nietzsche like Will Durant: "Nietzsche was the child of Darwin and the bro...
Friday, 31 October 2014
A Visit To Richard Wagner - And A Special Gift. 1852
"Mendelssohn, was a gentleman of refinement and high degree; a man of culture and polished manner; a courtier who was always at hom...
Thursday, 30 October 2014
Now Available: Wagner Journal November 2014
Contents: • 'Kundry’s Baptism, Kundry’s Death' by Christopher Wintle • 'Timely Timelessness: Regietheater at Bayreuth in...
Sunday, 26 October 2014
How Much Would You Pay To Watch Gergiev Conduct The Ring?
Valery Gergiev - Going cheap? About a year ago, the Birmingham Hippodrome (UK) and the Mariinsky Opera announced that the Mariinsky Op...
Friday, 24 October 2014
Boston Wagner Event: The Beauty of the Abyss
Jean Delville, "Tristan et Iseut, The View from the Rim: Tristan, the Grand Canyon, and the Beauty of the Abyss Presented by ...
Thursday, 23 October 2014
History Of The Ring Cycle In The USA - 1850-1903
"While Tommasini’s statement seems to neatly encapsulate the Ring cycle’s significance today, it also raises the question of why it app...
The Fatality of Romanticism vs. The Metaphysics of Sexual Love: Wagner's Love Letter
The Fatality of Romanticism vs. The Metaphysics of Sexual Love: Wagner's Love Letter to Schopenhauer and the Break-Up with Nietzsche....
Book Of The Month:Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire
Update: Sadly, it seems that Amazon has now "sold out" and are awaiting new stock. It has, however, been bought to our attention ...
Free Audio Book: The Case of Wagner / Nietzsche Contra Wagner
From those very kindle volunteers at LibriVox. The Case of Wagner / Nietzsche Contra Wagner / Selected Aphorisms
Two Free Wagner Books For Your Kindle By Judith Gautier
"Chère, I am sad! There is another reception this evening, but I shall not be going to it! I reread a few pages of my life which I ...
LFO Announce Cast Of New Tristan Und Isolde - 2015
Tristan and Isolde lithograph by Milen Litchkov Longborough return to Wagner after a, sort of, rest season, with a new production o...
Wednesday, 22 October 2014
Washington National Opera Announces Complete Casting for 2016's Ring
Washington National Opera (WNO) today announced complete casting for its first full presentation of Richard Wagner's four-part Ring cy...
Tuesday, 7 October 2014
Bernd Weikl And Why You Should Simply Not Take It Anymore
Sarcasm and satire - dangerous tools. Not for the power their use may have when used well (although this too has its dangers), but if they...
Sunday, 5 October 2014
Ring Cycle Player - Listen While You Read
Wagner Composing The Ring of the Nibelungen: L. Balestrieri We have tried various methods of bringing a permanent Wagner music player to...
Friday, 3 October 2014
New Book: Wagner's Parsifal: An Appreciation in the Light of His Theological Journey
Expect a review in the next few months. Wagner’s Parsifal An Appreciation in the Light of His Theological Journey By Richard H. Bell ...
Free: The Parsifal Libretto Retold As Epic Poem - Oliver Huckel
PARSIFAL: A DRAMA BY WAGNER RETOLD BY OLIVER HUCKEL Oliver Huckel's poetic rendition in English of the libretto of Richard Wag...
Free Epub/Kindle Book: Wagner As I Knew Him - Praeger
Previously available in other formats but now as an Epub or in Kindle format. Click the relevant link below to download - or read and se...
Thursday, 2 October 2014
Why Bernd Weikl Doesn't Want To Ban Wagner.
Confused? All will become clear tomorrow when we publish a recent conversation with the great Mr Weikl, Let us just say that for one of ...
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
The Reinvention of Genius: Wagner's Transformation of Schopenhauer's Aesthetics in “Beethoven
Originally published: postgraduate journal of aesthetics . Vol 4 The Reinvention of Genius: Wagner's Transformation of Schopenhauer...
Tuesday, 23 September 2014
Parsifal Archetypes.
Carl Jung, began his career as a follower of Sigmund Freud. Eventually he felt that Freud's vision of the "unconscious" was ...
Friday, 5 September 2014
" Ride of The Valkyries" As Performed By Midi Synthesia
Was Sir Clive Sinclair A Wagner Fan? Those of you, yes we know there are one or two, who "wasted" their youth on a Game Boy -...
The other...um...other Wagner bio film: Magic Fire
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UPDATE: Sadly, it seems that this has now been deleted from Youtube. However, there is some good news. A number of kind readers have poin...
Listen Now & On-Demand: SFO - The Dutchman
The WFMT Radio Network continues their 2014 American Opera Series with San Francisco Opera – eight operas from their past season and two ope...
Nike Wagner, Richard Wagner and Beethoven
On September 7 at 7:00 pm (CET), DW presents a live stream of the opening concert at this year's Beethovenfest . Andris Nelsons conducts...
Thursday, 28 August 2014
Richard Wagner presents Lohengrin
Richard Wagner presents Lohengrin 3rd September 2014 to 5th September 2014. 18:30 to 20:00 Rhodes University. South Africa Jamie has n...
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