Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Berlin Heinz Rögner, conductor

...or at least one does (although it is confirmed that Wagner Society in London has spoken to the International Association  as other societ...

“...this is the link that unites this work with The Ring, like the Hall of the Grail in the Twilight scene unites the Ring with [illegible]...

I wouldn't normally bother reporting this but I think as the societies themselves seem to be so "low-key"  about it that it mi...

Another entry in our "Incomplete series", this time the Wagnerian's incomplete listing of Tannhäuser performances 2012. As no...

Another entry in our "Incomplete series", this time the Wagnerian's incomplete listing of Tristan and Isolde performances 2012...

Still, at least you won't have to suffer the codpieces:. Official announcement reads Bryn Terfel has regrettably had to withdraw from ...

I find more people who have quoted or mentioned Twain's essay then have read it and thus for the curious, in its entirety The Wagnerian ...

I have simply posted the details I have without edit. Should be interesting and one not to miss. Sat 28th January 2012: Sir Mark Elder con...

Excerpt of the Good Friday scene from Wagner's Parsifal. Parsifal - Fritz Wolff, Gurnemanz - Alexander Kipnis, Bayreuth Festival...

Often it's the volatile divas and heroic tenors with their High C's that grab the attention. But this time leading European opera cr...

In a preview of the arts in 2012, Gudrun Stegen of Deutsche Welle highlights the difficulties that the Festival is facing this year - and pe...

“The world is my idea:”—this is a truth which holds good for everything that lives and knows, though man alone can bring it into reflectiv...

  A Wagner biography written by some one who knew him and the book H.S. Chamberlain tried to ban. There is a wonderful overview of this o...

The Wagner Sisters: "Tickets? We have very goods seats thanks. I wasn't going to report this but wait for developments followin...

Should also be available for 7 days afterwards on demand on BBC Iplayer ( Click here after the broadcast ) To listen online in HD click he...

As we get closer to 2013, the number of special events around Wagner and his works will obviously intensify. My intention is to begin to det...

Found over at the wonderful, and voluntary, Archive.org. Transfered from the Victor 78s. Free and in the public domain (well you wouldn...

A little late it would seem,  I was under the impression that this was not due for release till the 16 January 2012 (at least in the UK) and...

Slightly off topic I appreciate but I thought to good not to share and you do get Verklärte Nacht! Will remain available for about 6 months...

Out of the morning land, Over the snow-drifts, Beautiful Freya came, Tripping to Scoring. White were the moorlands, And frozen bef...

Premiered at the Grand Theatre Luxembourg on April 28, 2007, Jonathan Harvey's "Wagner Dream" (with a libretto by Jean-Claude...

I wasn't going to report this, instead I was going to leave it till I compiled an article on all of Bayreuth's new changes to ticket...

A newcomer to Longborough this year will be Stuart Pendred, singing Hagen in Götterdämmerung. Stuart trained as an actor and his career ha...

Taken from the Metropolitan Opera Live in HD series, members of the Metropolitan Opera Brass section explain and demonstrate Wagner's u...

The centre of the argument Bayreuth and Leipzig may not be such good bedfellows after all As everyone knows, King Ludwig II adored Wagn...

Another video lecture from Bayreuth as part of the Wagner Worldwide program. Here Vazsonyi  expands and discuses some of the ideas in his b...

Excellent interview. Enlightening and well worth watching. A must see in my opinion - especially for those interested in the controversies ...

UPDATE: I have been informed that people in some parts of the world are stopped by youtube from viewing. I would suspect that this is becaus...

Part of the Wagner Worldwide lecture series. Among other works, alas not all translated into English, Rieger is the author of Wagner's W...

“Wahn, Wahn, überall Wahn” while Wagner – and indeed Schopenhauer if he had done so – was certainly using it in a very different way, it ...

As regular readers maybe aware I was something of a fan of Daniel Brenna's very youthful Siegfried at LFO back in July.. With that in mi...

. Photo by Clive Barda If there was only one reason to catch the ROH revival it would surely be the presence of Sir John. With that in mi...

George Bernard Shaw This is part of the voluntary project known as Librivox  and is in the public domain ( click here for information and...

In case you missed, Rene Kollo - yes that Rene Kollo - has written his first novel. No, not a memoir, but a psychological thriller called, w...

Pappano: "Is that an iceberg I see before me? The ROH marketing and press departments often remind me of an iceberg: big, slow and c...