This postcard was sold on Ebay a few days ago. We thought you might be interested. Click on to view a larger image. 1st act, 2nd scene ...
Photo: Bayreuth Festival 1927/28: Stage setting "Götterdämmerung"
Sunday, 11 November 2012
Tuesday, 6 November 2012
Mariinsky Label to record Ring Cycle with: Kaufmann, Stemme, Kampe, Petrenko and Pape.
As far as Wagner casts and conductors come (following his Parsifal) a new recorded Ring Cycle including: Jonas Kaufmann (Siegmund) , N...
Pay Per View: Alex Ross - Richard Wagner: Horror, Beauty, a Mirror to Our Soul
While we are not fans of pay-per-view lectures we suppose someone must pay for all of those starving journalists at The New Yorker. And ...
Salvador Dali's "Mad Tristan" leaves the noumenal and returns to the world of phenomenon
Director Daniele Finzi Pasca, centre, and members of the production stand before a Salvador Dali painting that will serve as a backdrop ...
New Issue Of The Wagner Journal Now Available. Includes: Wagner & Milton
The November 2012 issue (vol.6, no.3), now available, contains the following feature articles: • 'Making All Things New: from Pa...
Listen Now: "Rhinemaidens" Bayreuth 1904
Illustration from Stories of the Wagner Opera by H. A. Guerber , 1905. The three Rhinemaidens in Cosima Wagner's Bayreuth ...
Greed and the Nature of Evil: Tolkien versus Wagner
Originally published in 2010 in the recommended, peer reviewed Journal Of Religion and Popular Culture . Once again, we felt it was of to...
Monday, 5 November 2012
SF Opera: A whale, a swan and pair of star-cross'd lovers:
By MIKE SILVERMAN, Associated Press It made for an eclectic week at the San Francisco Opera. With the company's fall season in full...
The Wagnerian Recommends: the best of the Wagner Web 1: Think Classical
The first of a number of features where I will attempt to suggest Wagner (or closely related) websites that you may not be aware of, startin...
Tristan und Isolde Productions: 2013
Only productions that have at least announced their principle casts have been included. As always, we cannot guarantee the accuracy o...
Sunday, 4 November 2012
Decca release "unheard" Solti - includes Wagner, Hotter, Nilsson, etc
Released in Europe on Oct 13 it will receive its North American release 4 December. If you have access to Spotify you can hear the entire tw...
The Incongruence of the Schopenhauerian Ending in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung
Of late, we have been investigating the influence of a range of German philosophers on Wagners thoughts and the development of his dramas...
Saturday, 3 November 2012
Concert: Waghalter: The Lost Romantic. ECO - London 14/11/12
Irmina Trynkos Since first reading about this composer earlier this year I have developed a fascination for both this project and the c...
Free Ebook: Feuerbach - "The Essence of Christianity"
While the majority of general commentaries often stress the influence that Schopenhauer had on Wagner, it is of little doubt that Ludwig Feu...
Friday, 2 November 2012
A Flock of Nightingales: Wagner’s Music and German Philosophy
Originally published in the, I believe now extinct, Canadian Aesthetics Journal , Volume 7, Autumn, 2002 "My title, “a flock of nigh...
Video: "Kicking Away the Ladder" German Idealism: Kant, Goethe, Fichte
Goethe As many will know, Wagner had an obsessive interest in philosophy - and not just Schopenhauer. How important a knowledge of the...
Thursday, 1 November 2012
Wagner's Anti-Semitism and German Philosophy
Hegel Originally published on the Teloscope website, February 2012 As an occasional feature on TELOSscope, we highlight a past Tel...
Wagner's secret admirers in Israel
Theodor Herzl DANIELLA CHESLOW: Jerusalem Post For most Richard Wagner fans, the annual Wagner Festspiele (festival) in this small cit...
Wednesday, 31 October 2012
The origin of Tristan und Isolde lies not in Schopenhauer but Kleist?
Heinrich von Kleist Originally published in New Left Review in 2000, Michael Marr investigates Wagner, his uncle Adolph and the possibl...
The Geneva Festival Wagner : 1813-2013
Anyone unaware of the special place reserved for Switzerland in Richard Wagner’s life and the subtle set of influences the country brought ...
LUCERNE FESTIVAL 2013 - A new Ring Cycle
Revolution! LUCERNE FESTIVAL celebrates its 75th anniversary! In 1938 the Festival, which operated under the name of “Internationale Mu...
Tuesday, 30 October 2012
Video: Opera North, Ring - Walkure - Documentary
Pera North is staging Wagner's epic Ring cycle over 4 years. This documentary follows the preparations for Die Walküre, the second...
Monday, 29 October 2012
Video: Keith Warner in conversation with Kasper Holten - ROH Ring
In this interview, Keith speaks about his career, what inspired his production of Richard Wagner's masterwork and how he tackled su...
Sunday, 28 October 2012
The Wagnerian Reviews: The Sorcerer of Bayreuth
Recently, regular contributor Daniel Carroll reviewed Barry Millington's new Wagner book: The Sorcerer of Bayreuth: Richard Wagner, Hi...
Saturday, 27 October 2012
Read Now: Wagner At Home - 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 on...
"Inside The RIng": month long Wagner festival. UK 2013
As London closes its Wagner 200 events, the interested UK (and international) "Ring Follower" need not worry as a further series ...
Two rings to rule them all: a comparative study of Tolkien and Wagner
The following excellent and highly accessible paper acts as a comparative analysis (with a thesis we think highly original) of both Wagner a...
Katharina Wagner: "Don't Cry For Me Argentina" but she won't be back anytime soon
"Don't Cry For Me Argentina" "It won't be easy You'll think it strange When I try to explain how I feel...
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
A Collection Of Free Wagner Ebooks
As has been often mentioned, Wagner is one of the most written about composers in history - and this is not a new phenomenon but began...
Tuesday, 23 October 2012
Alberic Magnard: The French Wagner, Bruckner, Mahler or something else?
Magnard, for those that know him (and for some unknown reason that is too few) he has been called all of the above - or in the case of Mah...
Monday, 22 October 2012
The Janowski Studio Ring - an overview
Readers may have realised by now that our taste in performances can be on occasion "idiosyncratic". This is probably no more so ...
Sunday, 21 October 2012
Free Ebook: Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Vol 1&2 Epub, Kindle, etc
"Two principal motives of my myth therefore remain to be represented, both of which are hinted at in "Young Siegfried", the f...
The Wagnerian: Now available on Ipad, Android and more
The Wagnerian on Ipad We have added The Wagnerian to the Google Android/Apple App "Google Currents" - See images below. Thi...
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