At least we now know what is running through Crowe's mind during all of those publicity shots In an interview with "Yahoo Movi...

There has, of course, been, what seems, an endless number of differingly themed tarot decks. It would be easy to blame the the occult reviva...

March 2015 issue (vol.9, no.1) of The Wagner Journal, which contains the following articles: • 'Where's the Drama?': Persona...

Not Wagner of course, but would there have been this opera without Wagner? Whatever the answer, Salome, is perhaps one of Strauss' gre...

ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK AND RICHARD WAGNER Jarmila Gabrielová Abstract: The essay deals with the relation of prominent Czech composer Antonín Dv...

It is more difficult than one might first suspect to find good, or indeed interesting, analysis of Tannhäuser. With that in mind, we were...

Sylvain Blassel (Harp, Arranger) Born: 1976 - France The French harpist, Sylvain Blassel, graduated in 1998 from the Lyon Conservatoire Na...

  Understanding the Leitmotif From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music Author: Matthew Bribitzer-Stull Publication planned for: April 2015 a...

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.” A counterfactual analysis of Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser. Chrissochoidis, I.; Harmgart...

Highly recommended should you ever get the chance to see this - or their Magic Flute,  Don Giovanni and much else. To track down a perfo...

Only productions that have announced their principal casts have been included. As always, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of any listi...

Only productions that have announced their principal casts have been included. As always, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of...

OK. We  are going to try and explain this, briefly, for most of our readers (the rest of you can go straight to the end): "Call Of Du...

After four years of individual performances of each part of Der Ring des Nibelungen in concert - although semi-staged - ON have now an...

This year,  during February and March, will see the London premiere of Richard Jones’s acclaimed staging of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg....

Queen City Chamber Opera , in collaboration with the Wagner Society of Cincinnati, continue to produce their Ring cycle - albeit one ac...

The following is the introduction - especially adapted by the author -  to Paul Dawson-Bowling's two volume introduction and anal...

Uwe Eric Laufenberg -sans mother or swastikas After  Jonathan Meese's less than graceful exit from Bayreuth's 2016 Parsifal, ...

While a typically pedestrian interview in someways - but one has to consider its audience and the journalists need to write for that au...

Düsseldorf Deutsche Oper am Rhein's Tannhauser. An interesting discussion from Jessica Duchen which asks "Should an opera prod...

 Kearley, Sayers, Pountney,  Lecca, and Matthew Rees With the sad and untimely death of Johan Engels, the remaining  team behind  Lyric ...

We have had many guest authors here over the years but surely none can be as special  as that of Dame Gwyneth Jones . In this review, Dam...

Just goes to prove there is no award Wagner cannot win. At the World Coin News’ Coin of the Year Award an international panel of judges ...

Update: Due to a technical error (well, to be honest we thought we had closed the voting but we had not) we are keeping the polls open ti...

  Opera in Depth with David Nice: Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Frontline Club 12 January – 16 March 2015 14.30...

Johnathan Meese clearing out his desk at Bayreuth? Jonathan Meese has been a controversial figure from the moment he signed a contract w...

  The following, free, event at the Birmingham Hippodrome looks very interesting, We will be there. Details from the organizers below: ...

One sometimes feels that no one has the measure of Nietzsche like Will Durant:   "Nietzsche was the child of Darwin and the bro...

"Mendelssohn, was a gentleman of refinement and high degree; a man of culture and polished manner; a courtier who was always at hom...

Contents: • 'Kundry’s Baptism, Kundry’s Death' by Christopher Wintle • 'Timely Timelessness: Regietheater at Bayreuth in...

Valery Gergiev - Going cheap? About a year ago, the Birmingham Hippodrome (UK) and the Mariinsky Opera announced that the Mariinsky Op...

Jean Delville, "Tristan et Iseut,   The View from the Rim: Tristan, the Grand Canyon, and the Beauty of the Abyss Presented by ...

"While Tommasini’s statement seems to neatly encapsulate the Ring cycle’s significance today, it also raises the question of why it app...