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Saturday, 15 February 2025
Potential Translations of the Ring: Brief Upload For Feedback.
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Potential Translations of the Ring: Version 1: Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) Dramatis Personae Siegmund (a mortal, son of Wotan by a mortal...
Monday, 6 January 2025
Bayreuth Festival Restructures Sesquicentennial Season Amid Financial Strains
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In a decision that underscores the economic realities of our time, the Bayreuth Festival has announced significant adjustments to its 150th ...
Sunday, 29 October 2023
Wagner Was A Socialble Chap: Now On Bluesky
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Sadly, Twitter is not the place it was for those interested in the arts a few years ago - never mind 15 or so. So, we are more active on our...
Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90 (Arr. for Violin & Piano by Fazil Say) : Liebestod
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From the new album: "Liebestod - Works for Violin and Piano" from Friedemann Eichhorn & Fazıl Say Turkish pianist and composer...
From Wascally Wabbit to Wagner
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From 2016, but still, who can't resist an excuse for Bugs and Elmer perform Wagner: Many of the people involved in the Washington Nation...
Sunday, 28 May 2023
A Concerned Author Suggests What Form The New, 1914, Covent Garden Ring Cycle Might Take
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Those who critique the arts are ever-abounding in opinions. And the question of what constitutes a “superior” rendition of the Ring Cycle ha...
Review: "The Cambridge Companion to Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen
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This is a review that has been long in the making, as long as Wagner spent on the Ring Cycle - or so it has seemed to me. It started and cha...
Wednesday, 17 May 2023
Reviews Of Solti's Recording of the Ring Cycle by: AI, Fredrick Nietzsche and Hanslick.
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It is nearly impossible to peruse a newspaper these days without encountering someone expressing fear regarding the rise of AI. Much of this...
Monday, 8 May 2023
Parsifal Study Day 13 May 2023 Manchester
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Should you be in Manchester, well worth attending Wagner Society Manchester PARSIFAL STUDY DAY 13 May 2023 9.30am until 16.30 Anthony Burg...
New Edition Of The Wagner Journal Published
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The March 2023 issue (vol.17, no.1) of The Wagner Journal has been published and contains the following feature articles: • Wolfgang Mende ...
Wagner & Desire
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All things partake in the Oneness of Reality and therefore all things are interconnected. The sacred threads that weave through the various ...
Tuesday, 31 January 2023
Watch Now Complete: RHINEGOLD Wagner – Birmingham Opera Company
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Birmingham Opera Company, known for staging opera in empty warehouses and disused factories, here performs RhineGold in the relatively conve...
Sunday, 24 April 2022
Watch Now: PARSIFAL: Hungarian State Opera
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Streamed LIVE on OperaVision on 15 April 2022 at 19:00 CET and available until 15 October 2022: CAST Amfortas: Michele Kalmandy Titurel...
March Issue Of The Wagner Journal Available Now
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And a rather good one it is. Highly recommended - perhaps essential. It is worth buying for Justin Mueller's item on Hans-Jürgen Syberbe...
Watch Now: The Complete Herheim' Directed Ring From Deutsche Oper Berlin
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ARD 1 Has made the entire 2021 Deutsche Oper Berlin Ring Cycle available online, free. This will be until 13, July 2022. Act one of Walkur...
Monday, 17 January 2022
Watch Now: Die Walkure. Longborough Festival Opera 2021
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Only available until 26, February 2022. Watch it, while you can Following Longborough Festival Opera’s critically acclaimed Das Rheingold, W...
Monday, 31 May 2021
Tristan und Isolde: 11, 000 Years Old And Counting
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The Ain Sakhri Lovers It takes little for us to shoehorn another story to become one involving Wagner's work. It's also not that dif...
Sunday, 28 March 2021
3 Months Of Online Wagner Events With The Wagner Society: April to July 2021
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In these very strange times, various organisations have turned to the internet to continue their work. No less so, than the Wagner Society O...
Saturday, 27 March 2021
You Have Four Days To Watch Göteborgsoperan's Siegfried Premier, Free Online
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We have been lucky enough to catch Daniel Brenna's wonderful Siegfried, live, a few years ago and cannot recommend anything he appears i...
Sunday, 14 March 2021
Post Lockdown, ENO To Begin New Ring Cycle
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We, shall be looking at this closely, especially if it is as good as ENO seems to think Directed by Richard Jones and conducted by Martyn Br...
Sunday, 14 February 2021
Watch Now, Full Documentary: Pierre Boulez - Emotion and Analysis
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Pierre Boulez and the Berliner Philharmoniker rehearsing and performing Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra The conductor Pierre Boulez...
Watch Now, Full Documentary: The Colón Ring: Wagner in Buenos Aires
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It was an ambitious project: staging Richard Wagner's powerful music drama, the Ring Cycle, in a single day. To honor Richard Wagner...
Bayreuth To Get, At Last, Its First Female Conductor.
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A new production of the The Flying Dutchman, to premiere during the 2021 season, will be directed Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov and co...
Bayreuth 2021 To Go Ahead And How To Get Tickets
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At least we hope it will. Will include sections outdoors this year. You will have a very short window to buy, we suspect very limited ticket...
Opera Meets Film: Yuki Mishima’s ‘Patriotism’ & Wagner’s ‘Tristan und Isolde
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We really can recommend all of this series from David Salazar . We have included the full short film below. Yukio Mishima’s “Patriotism” is...
Opera Meets Film: How ‘Promising Young Woman’ & ‘Tristan und Isolde’
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We enjoyed this. Suggested. Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will se...
Is Richard Wagner the Most Controversial and Influential Composer Ever?
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We didn't choose the title, indeed edited it. Ignore some of the inanities of the introduction then read Alex Ross attempt to bring som...
The Meaning Of The Ring?
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There are, as many interpretations of the Ring as there are CDs. Tom Service thinks that at least he knows what it's not about - maybe: ...
Monday, 7 December 2020
Rolling Stone Magazine Includes Wagner Book In Its "Best Music Books Of 2020"
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It's not that often Rolling Stone Magazine features Richard Wagner, but I think we can never recall it featuring a book about Wagner in ...
Sunday, 6 December 2020
Richard and the revolutionaries: why did lefties love Wagner? Alex Ross
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In 1883, the year of Richard Wagner’s death, the theatre critic William Archer noticed a red-haired, bearded youth who was sitting day after...
Saturday, 5 December 2020
Listen now: Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen – Explorations
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We recommended this audio exploration of the Ring on release in 2013 - and we still do, although it's still not always easy to get outsi...
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