Found on youtube, From The BBC in 1997. There have been far, far worse documentaries about Wagner. Do yourself a favour, This, if you hunt around, can still be found on DVD for very little cost, Indeed this and the accompanying Beethoven documentary from the same series can be found together on Amazon (see here). One is sure other retailers are available.
Coming up in November
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Here’s what’s coming up next month as best I know. Canadian Stage’s
presentation of Robert Lepage’s The Far Side of the Moon opens at the Bluma
Appel Theat...
Takács Quartet/Ridout - Mozart, 20 October 2025
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Wigmore Hall
String Quintet in C major, KV 515; String Quintet in G minor, KV 516
Edward Dusinberre
Harumi Rhodes (violins)
Richard O’Neill, Timothy Ri...
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...