In a decision that underscores the economic realities of our time, the Bayreuth Festival has announced significant adjustments to its 150th ...

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...

From the new album: "Liebestod - Works for Violin and Piano" from Friedemann Eichhorn & Fazıl Say Turkish pianist and composer...

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...

Those who critique the arts are ever-abounding in opinions. And the question of what constitutes a “superior” rendition of the Ring Cycle ha...

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...

It is nearly impossible to peruse a newspaper these days without encountering someone expressing fear regarding the rise of AI. Much of this...

  Should you be in Manchester, well worth attending Wagner Society Manchester PARSIFAL STUDY DAY 13 May 2023 9.30am until 16.30 Anthony Burg...

The March 2023 issue (vol.17, no.1) of The Wagner Journal has been published and contains the following feature articles: • Wolfgang Mende ...

All things partake in the Oneness of Reality and therefore all things are interconnected. The sacred threads that weave through the various ...

Birmingham Opera Company, known for staging opera in empty warehouses and disused factories, here performs RhineGold in the relatively conve...

Streamed LIVE on OperaVision on 15 April 2022 at 19:00 CET and available until 15 October 2022:  CAST  Amfortas: Michele Kalmandy  Titurel...

And a rather good one it is. Highly recommended - perhaps essential. It is worth buying for Justin Mueller's item on Hans-Jürgen Syberbe...

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...

Only available until 26, February 2022. Watch it, while you can Following Longborough Festival Opera’s critically acclaimed Das Rheingold, W...

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...

In these very strange times, various organisations have turned to the internet to continue their work. No less so, than the Wagner Society O...

We have been lucky enough to catch Daniel Brenna's wonderful Siegfried, live, a few years ago and cannot recommend anything he appears i...

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...

Pierre Boulez and the Berliner Philharmoniker rehearsing and performing Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra The conductor Pierre Boulez...

It was an ambitious project: staging Richard Wagner's powerful music drama, the Ring Cycle, in a single day. To honor Richard Wagner...

A new production of the The Flying Dutchman, to premiere during the 2021 season, will be directed Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov and co...

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...

We really can recommend all of this series from  David Salazar . We have included the full short film below. Yukio Mishima’s “Patriotism” is...

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...

 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...

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: ...

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 ...

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...

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...

From Michigan Opera: an overview of Wagner, his work and times. MOT at Home is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities

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...