The first opera by a woman composer?
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The work under consideration here is Francesca Caccini’s Il liberazione di
Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina. Written as a court entertainment in Florence
in 16...
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ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK AND RICHARD WAGNER
ANTONÍN DVOŘÁK AND RICHARD WAGNER Jarmila Gabrielová Abstract: The essay deals with the relation of prominent Czech composer Antonín Dv... Read on →
MYTH & LEGEND IN WAGNER'S TANNHÄUSER
It is more difficult than one might first suspect to find good, or indeed interesting, analysis of Tannhäuser. With that in mind, we were... Read on →
Richard Wagner - Liebestod - Sylvain Blassel
Sylvain Blassel (Harp, Arranger) Born: 1976 - France The French harpist, Sylvain Blassel, graduated in 1998 from the Lyon Conservatoire Na... Read on →
New Wagner Publication: Understanding the Leitmotif: From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music
Understanding the Leitmotif From Wagner to Hollywood Film Music Author: Matthew Bribitzer-Stull Publication planned for: April 2015 a... Read on →
Tannhauser: "Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t"
“Though this be madness, yet there is method in’t.” A counterfactual analysis of Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser. Chrissochoidis, I.; Harmgart... Read on →
Salzburg Marionettentheater's Der Ring des Nibelungen - An Overview
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... Read on →
In Performance: Parsifal - 2015
Only productions that have announced their principal casts have been included. As always, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of any listi... Read on →
In Performance: Tristan Und Isolde - 2015
Only productions that have announced their principal casts have been included. As always, we cannot guarantee the accuracy of... Read on →
Wagner, The Ring and Call Of Duty?
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... Read on →
Opera North Announce 2016 Ring Cycle Dates & Locations
After four years of individual performances of each part of Der Ring des Nibelungen in concert - although semi-staged - ON have now an... Read on →
Win Two VIP Tickets To Meistersinger in London
This year, during February and March, will see the London premiere of Richard Jones’s acclaimed staging of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.... Read on →
Watch Now: Siegfried Act 1.
Queen City Chamber Opera , in collaboration with the Wagner Society of Cincinnati, continue to produce their Ring cycle - albeit one ac... Read on →
Who Is Richard Wagner? Paul Dawson-Bowling
The following is the introduction - especially adapted by the author - to Paul Dawson-Bowling's two volume introduction and anal... Read on →
Parsifal: Jonathan Meese Is Out And Uwe Eric Laufenberg Is In
Uwe Eric Laufenberg -sans mother or swastikas After Jonathan Meese's less than graceful exit from Bayreuth's 2016 Parsifal, ... Read on →
Nina Stemme: Tristan's Death Wish & Why Kundry Must Wait
While a typically pedestrian interview in someways - but one has to consider its audience and the journalists need to write for that au... Read on →
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