Colin Dexter: 29 September 1930 – 21 March 2017) As readers are surely aware, Colin Dexter, creator of probably one of this generation...

The Wagner Journal is 10 years old this year - no small task when so many magazines and journals are struggling to survive in the second d...

But first listen to those involved in,  Opéra Monte-Carlo 's new production of Tannhauser,  discuss the production, the work itself ...

Many of the people involved in the Washington National Opera's production of the Ring say it was theirs. Well, at lest that their fi...

Not a real Tweet. Unsure what his thoughts on Wagner might be In this insightful essay, Richard Bammer finds reflections of todays po...

In an exciting last season as Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Music Director - to include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Bruckner's...

Miami Wagner Institute Debut July 16th, 2016- New World Center Michael Rossi- Artistic Director Christine Goerke- Program ...

For Francis Philips, writing for the Catholic Herald, Simon Callow's new Wagner biography, raises - for most of us well visited -  argu...

Siegfried may not be the only one fighting dragons at the MET Lost amongest so much media coverage of Donald J Trump's administrati...

It's difficult to become fascinated with Wagner without becoming equally fascinated with racist, far right authoritarian leaders. Not ...

It seems that Micheal Tanner finds Simon Callow an even more unreliable Wagner Biographer than Wagner. He has a poor grasp of Schopenhauer...

Canadian Opera Company conductor Johannes Debus is frank about his relationship with the music of Richard Wagner. “I always tried to av...

Opera North. Filmed during live performances in 2016. Available from BBC 4. Unsure if you can watch this outside of the UK. If you ca...

There is, at the moment,  much talk of "walls" and segregation, enemies and"vetting", "the other", you/me, the...

Whether you have found this a good or bad year, we only hope that you take a rest, recover and have a much better year in 2017.

From Cesare Civetta . Discover Toscanini's love for Wagner's music and why the composer's family held the maestro in the h...

Reading a biography of revolutionary anarchist Mikhail Bakunin, our editor  came across a discussion that, in the last few days of his l...

THOMAS MANN TO THEODOR W. ADORNO ZURICH, 30–31.10.1952 Dear Dr Adorno, ‘However, if a decadent society develops the seeds of the ...

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Originally posted Sept 2015 Recently, looking for a video of the great Donald Lambert's Pilgrims Chorus (See the ...

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Originally published - July 2013 The famous (or infamous -, depending on how you look at it) Ferdinand Praeger  book...

We need your help again. This year we would like to run a readers vote of what you consider to be the best entire Ring Cycle on video - DVD...

As usual, there are a number of sources to listen to this year's Bayreuth Parsifal after its broadcast. In our opinion clicking on t...

In a recent interview with DW,  Eric Laufenberg had this to say about his interpretation of Parsifal: This piece basically focuses on th...

Yesterday, at the end of act one of Eric Laufenberg's new prodcution of Parsifal. I applauded louder than perhaps I have done for a lo...

"Through Wagner modernity speaks most intimately, concealing neither its good nor its evil—having forgotten all sense of shame....

There was a time, not that very long ago, when you might have to wait for up to ten years for tickets to Bayrueth. This was especially so fo...

A little late again (Ed: Yes. Seems you have to do things yourself around here to get anything done) but please find below a list of l...

As more attentive readers will be aware, Bayreuth will be broadcasting the entire Ring cycle free this year on Sky Arts. However, you may...

The Wagner Journal has, kindly made available for free, an extended essay by Edward A. & Paula M. Bortnichak on the current production...

The July 2016 issue (vol.10, no.2), now available, contains the following feature articles: • 'The "Missing Link" in the ...

30 years ago or so, I would not have felt compelled to write as much of this as I am about to. The reason was simple: what has happened i...

Again, brought to us by T he Opera Platform Richard Wagner: DIE WALKÜRE (The Valkyrie) Opera in three acts Performed by the Dutch Nati...

Made available now, and for the net six months, by The Opera Platform Details: Richard Wagner: PARSIFAL "A Festival Play for ...

Katharina Wagner's 2015 production of Tristan und Isolde is now available on DVD and Blu-ray from DG. Details below

  It was a last-minute upset, but not unusual for the Bayreuth Festival. Conductor Andris Nelsons called off his opening night performan...

Complete cycle has now been broadcast by BBC Radio 3 and will be available for the next 27 days. To listen, click the relevant link below...