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Saturday, 15 October 2011

LISTEN NOW: The complete Jon Vickers tribute. Over 20 hours plus complete performances - on-demand

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In July, Saturday Afternoon at the Opera (CBC Radio 2) paid tribute to the legendary Canadian tenor Jon Vickers. If you missed any (or all)...

Grange Park July 2011, Tristan und Isolde: Final Act - the videos

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Plus: Richard Roberts Act one: Alwyn Mellor and Richard Berkeley-Steele. David Fielding Director The Reviews: 1 and 2

Scenes from Götterdämmerung with Alwyn Mellor: Sunday October 16th 2011 London

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Scenes from Götterdämmerung with the Rehearsal Orchestra, Conductor: David Syrus Presented by The Mastersingers Supported by the Wagne...

October 30: Boston Wagner Society Lecture - “From Bayreuth to Hollywood: Richard Wagner and the Art of Cinema”

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A Lecture-Demonstration by Filmmaker and Writer Hilan Warshaw With Rare Film Footage Sunday, October 30, 2011, 2 p.m. Brookline Public Libra...

The Wagnerian Podcast No 2: Rudolf Moralt's Ring Cycle

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Rudolf Moralt Perhaps one of the greatest recorded Ring Cycles few people have heard and with an overall recording quality - with the e...

Plowright as Fricka & Bryn Terfel as Wotan, Walkure 2005 Proms

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Gregory Crewdson: Overview and audio inteview

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Off topic so please indulge me, but watching Melancholia (a no review coming soon) I was reminded (along with a number of other things) in ...
Tuesday, 11 October 2011

‘Hans Von Bulow: A Life and Times" A Biography

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Hans von Bülow once arrived in a small German town to give a piano recital. He was informed by the somewhat nervous organizers that the loca...
Monday, 10 October 2011

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, James Morris and Meistersingers

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Press Release:  Performances to take place Thursday, November 3, and Saturday, November 5, at 8 p.m., and Friday, November 4, at 1:30 p.m...
Friday, 7 October 2011

Anna Russell: The Ring, 'An Analysis'

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Surely the greatest analysis of the Ring ever recorded

If you missed it listen now: Lohengrin, Bayreuth Festival, July 2011

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Still in Latvia Radios Archives since re-broadcasting last week. Listen while you can: Windows Media Player Stream: Click Here Real...

Gramophone Awards 2011: Jonas Kaufmann wins award for CD and Carlos Kleiber: Traces to Nowhere Wins DVD Documentary of the year

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The 2011 Gramophone Classical Music Awards have been announced. The awards were revealed at a ceremony at London's Dorchester Hotel.

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Wednesday, 5 October 2011

Listen (complete) Furtwängler - Bruckner Symphony 5 (Berlin 1942, live)

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Bruckner - Symphony No 5 in B-Flat (original version) conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Live recordi...

MET HD Broadcasts and The Jerusalem Cinematheque: Verdi, Glass, Mozart and Donizetti but no Wagner.

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By Noam Ben-Zeev The Jerusalem Cinematheque has decided not to screen two works by composer Richard Wagner from the opera season of the New...
Monday, 3 October 2011

The Screenplay to Lars von Trier's Walkure (Bayreuth Ring Cycle - never produced)

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As a follow on from my post above. First in German and then in poorly (google)  translated English (if anyone fancies doing it correctly let...

What Lars von Trier Ring Cycle would have looked like - Lars speaks

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THE bow of promise, this lost flaring star, Terror and hope are in mid-heaven; but She, The mighty-wing'd crown'd Lady Melancholy, H...

Listen Now: Mark Kermode reviews Melancholia

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Getting ready to watch this later (may even write down my thoughts given the use of Wagner therein) and as I have always had a soft-spot for...
Sunday, 2 October 2011

Barenboim Discusses: Why Furtwangler still moves us. Plus: Wagner and Ideolgy

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Two articles I thought might be of interest from Barenboim's online journal: WHY WILHELM FURTWÄNGLER STILL MOVES US TODAY HIS LIFE:...