Written By: Peter Isackson According to Alex Ross in his book, “Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music,” Richard Wagner was more...

Grace Bumbry as Venus in Wagner's "Tannhäuser" Originally published in German Studies Review, 2012. Written by Kira Thurman , ...

  A brief, potted, biography of Wagner and his work from Biographics.  Richard Wagner: A Controversial Titan of Classical Music

Stephen Fry joins the Royal Philharmonic Society for a very special conversation – with the author and music critic for The New Yorker, Alex...

In his first book, Alex Ross introduced more people to "modern" classical music then NPR and the BBC had managed to do in both org...

It has been a few years since two books about Wagner and his work have been published in the same month, it has been even longer since both ...

Join us over at Twitch for video "watch party" of act one of Walkure. Meet some new friends, chat with some old ones and most ...

Unable to perform live while the country is in COVID-19 lock-down, Opera Australia has created another way to share their performances wit...

Bayreuth, as you know is cancelled, as are all other performances. The world is in a temporary turmoil. People are locked in or if they go...

We know that things are, to put it mildly, difficult for so many of you at the moment; for both those unable to leave home and those hav...

This is excellent! And should you enjoy it, and you can, please give to  https://artistrelieftree.com/ . The gods need you! Jamie Ba...

From the festival: In view of the effects of the Corona crisis on the operations of the Bayreuth Festival GmbH, the management and the sha...

Perhaps it should come as little surprise but Bayreuth continues to review this year's festival in light of COVID-19. With this in min...

We are aware that a lot of our readers use Spotify (many other - even better - classical music services are available, but that is for ano...

Just wonderful. Comic Strip art by William Elliott. Originally published at the now long gone,  sinfinimusic.com - at least the comic st...

Its that time of year again and we wanted to say we have, once again, enjoyed your company, whether as emails, twitter, facebook comme...

Heroic Voices Wagner, Strauss and the rise of dramatic song Laure Meloy  dramatic soprano Lee David Bowen  heldentenor Kelv...

Rising heldentenor Lee David Bowen, and dramatic soprano Laure Meloy join Wagnerian specialist repetiteur Kelvin Lim in a programme explorin...

Ok, it's only loosely connected to Wagner, but a fascinating article, about a fascinating exhibition, of a fascinating subject with w...

A fascinating resource, audio lecture and article series by Professor Richard Bell. Richard is investigating Wagner's theological, eth...

Not too sure who but we would be interested in this but we thought you might be too.  The description below is from the publisher. This ex...

Always exciting. Of particular attention, I feel, is the article ‘Knappertsbusch in Bayreuth’, which reveals the full story of the maestro...

Not safe to be played at work - most likely. This is going to upset people. And perhaps only in German popular culture would it have rele...

Image: François Lopinot / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA From The Boston Musical Intelligizer. Written by Ralph Locke In 1860, Richard ...

The following is the complete chapter about Parsifal, and more specifically its imaginary landscapes, from his book "The Book of Le...

Thanks to BR-Klassik - and Bayreuth of course - you can watch the premiere of Tobias Kratzer's production of Tannhauser. Click here ...

It's that time of year again. All will start around 1345 GMT July 25 TANNHÄUSER - CLICK HERE TO LISTEN   July 26 LOHENGRIN  - C...

We reported previously , that the fantastic Fulham Opera will be staging its first Meistersinger in August this year. As you may know, FO ha...

We have noted over the years how few images of Wagner's mother, the elusive and somewhat enigmatic, Johanna Rosine Wagner, ever appe...

The Awakening is a short film by Ivan Maria Friedman, taking the poem of Sufi mystic Rumi and setting it to the Vorspiel of Das Rheingold. ...

If there is one line in the whole of the Ring that can produce unintended laughter, muffled or not, it is Siegfried's "Das ist ke...

It would seem a terrible shame to miss this one. 2019 is the 150th anniversary of the first performance of Richard Wagner’s opera, D...

As a number of you are aware, the website was down for 5 days at the beginning of this month. This was due to an error by our previous dom...

FULHAM OPERA DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NÜRNBERG 9 - 17 August 2019 Greenwood Theatre, London Fulham Opera, is to stage its mos...

I have found myself, once again, reading Anne Dzamba Sessa's excellent, 1978  book  "Richard Wagner And The English". This i...

A nine hour, or so, lecture series on Die Walkure. Recorded in 2012 Includes:  The Opera in Its Time (Simon Williams) The Growth...