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...
19 hours ago
Tristan und Isolde: 11, 000 Years Old And Counting
The Ain Sakhri Lovers It takes little for us to shoehorn another story to become one involving Wagner's work. It's also not that dif... Read on →
3 Months Of Online Wagner Events With The Wagner Society: April to July 2021
In these very strange times, various organisations have turned to the internet to continue their work. No less so, than the Wagner Society O... Read on →
You Have Four Days To Watch Göteborgsoperan's Siegfried Premier, Free Online
We have been lucky enough to catch Daniel Brenna's wonderful Siegfried, live, a few years ago and cannot recommend anything he appears i... Read on →
Post Lockdown, ENO To Begin New Ring Cycle
We, shall be looking at this closely, especially if it is as good as ENO seems to think Directed by Richard Jones and conducted by Martyn Br... Read on →
Watch Now, Full Documentary: Pierre Boulez - Emotion and Analysis
Pierre Boulez and the Berliner Philharmoniker rehearsing and performing Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra The conductor Pierre Boulez... Read on →
Watch Now, Full Documentary: The Colón Ring: Wagner in Buenos Aires
It was an ambitious project: staging Richard Wagner's powerful music drama, the Ring Cycle, in a single day. To honor Richard Wagner... Read on →
Bayreuth To Get, At Last, Its First Female Conductor.
A new production of the The Flying Dutchman, to premiere during the 2021 season, will be directed Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov and co... Read on →
Bayreuth 2021 To Go Ahead And How To Get Tickets
At least we hope it will. Will include sections outdoors this year. You will have a very short window to buy, we suspect very limited ticket... Read on →
Opera Meets Film: Yuki Mishima’s ‘Patriotism’ & Wagner’s ‘Tristan und Isolde
We really can recommend all of this series from David Salazar . We have included the full short film below. Yukio Mishima’s “Patriotism” is... Read on →
Opera Meets Film: How ‘Promising Young Woman’ & ‘Tristan und Isolde’
We enjoyed this. Suggested. Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will se... Read on →
Is Richard Wagner the Most Controversial and Influential Composer Ever?
We didn't choose the title, indeed edited it. Ignore some of the inanities of the introduction then read Alex Ross attempt to bring som... Read on →
The Meaning Of The Ring?
There are, as many interpretations of the Ring as there are CDs. Tom Service thinks that at least he knows what it's not about - maybe: ... Read on →
Rolling Stone Magazine Includes Wagner Book In Its "Best Music Books Of 2020"
It's not that often Rolling Stone Magazine features Richard Wagner, but I think we can never recall it featuring a book about Wagner in ... Read on →
Richard and the revolutionaries: why did lefties love Wagner? Alex Ross
In 1883, the year of Richard Wagner’s death, the theatre critic William Archer noticed a red-haired, bearded youth who was sitting day after... Read on →
Listen now: Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen – Explorations
We recommended this audio exploration of the Ring on release in 2013 - and we still do, although it's still not always easy to get outsi... Read on →
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