Historically, gaining access to the Richard Wagner Archive has been a somewhat difficult process for the none academic. Indeed, as it ne...
Bayreuth To Digitize Richard Wagner Archive And Make Available To All
Sunday, 24 June 2018
Sunday, 17 June 2018
The Ring, Or Wagner as Scam Artist
The world of Wagner criticism is a strange place. At the periphery of the media, and the internet, it's an even stranger place. Indeed...
Monday, 30 April 2018
New Issue Of The Wagner Journal Available
‘Kindred Spirits of Meiningen and Bayreuth‘ by Edward A. Bortnichak and Paula M. Bortnichak • ‘Turning the Telescope Round‘ [article ...
Thursday, 15 March 2018
RIP: Professor Stephen Hawking: Physicist & Wagnerian
In one of his final interviews, Professor Hawking was asked how he would like to spend his last days, he replied: Oh my last day, it w...
Sunday, 18 February 2018
Watch Now: Die Walküre” (Act I). NYP. Jaap van Zweden. Jan 15
Some of us here believe that van Zweden may become the best Wagner conductor of this generation. Although, it is very hard to beat Baren...
Friday, 16 February 2018
A Very Special Offer For Readers Of The Wagnerian: Wagner Books
Apologies for the title; sadly could not think of a better way of putting it. You might recall a few weeks ago we noted two Wagner related...
Friday, 5 January 2018
Quote Of The Month: Charlie Chaplin Upon Hearing Tannhauser For The First Time
Taken from Christopher Lawrence's book, " Swooning: A Classical Music Guide to Life, Love, Lust and Other Follies" ...
An Invitation To Parsifal. Bayreuth. August 15. 1892
Researching something else, we came across this full page ad for Parsifal in 1892. Thought we would share. A sort of Wagner Tardis. You will...
Wagner, Williams, Star Wars and Alex Ross: The perfect combination?
One of our often featured Wagnerian commentators, Alex Ross, discusses the use of "wagnerian" leitmotifs, in John Williams's...
Monday, 1 January 2018
New Wagner Related Book: Granville Bantock Letters to William Wallace and Ernest Newman
Fascinating, if horrendously expensive, book edited by Michael Allis. Details from the publisher, below Granville Bantock's letters...
Wiener Staatsoper To Stream Full Ring Cycle April 2018. Full Details
As part of Wiener Staatsoper's live streaming program, they will be streaming Sven-Eric Bechtolf's production of Der Ring des Ni...
Thursday, 28 December 2017
International Wagner Performances January 2018
We are trying something new this month; a full, or nearly full, list of Wagner performances world wide. Not just full operas but concert per...
Wednesday, 27 December 2017
Complete Ring Cycles: 2018. Full Listing
What follows is a list of full Ring cycles in 2018. As always details may change, or we may have made an error. Please check with each...
Opera in Depth with David Nice. Rheingold. London. Starting January 8
David tells us the part of the series that concentrates on Rheingold will run for 5 weeks and should you wish to sign-up just for this ...
Parsifal. New Production Munich 2018. Kaufmann, Stemme, Pape, Audi & Petrenko. Video Preview
Pierre Audi's new "all star cast" production of Parsifal will premiere at Bayerische Staatsoper on 28 June, 2018. It wil...
Calixto Bieito's Latest Tannhauser: Restrained, Out of Ideas Or Just A Guardian Reader?
Whatever you might think of Calixto Bieito's opera productions understated is not a word one would commonly use. Yet, that is certainl...
Tuesday, 26 December 2017
Recommendation: Tannhauser: Barenboim, Pape, Seiffert, Petersen, Prudenskaya, Waltz
I find it difficult to enjoy productions of Tannhauser on DVD, or indeed on the stage. Not because of the score, obviously, or performers,...
Free Digital Magazine. Gramophone: Recordings of the Year 1977-2017
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Gramophone Awards this year, Gramophone have produced a very special free digital magazine: '...
Monday, 25 December 2017
New Books: Ernest Newman A Critical Biography By Paul Watt
Wagner's most detailed biographer - despite its age, his four-volume "Life Of Richard Wagner" remains indispensable - finds ...
Wagner and Paris: The Case of Rienzi (1869). Mark Everist
Abstract The French reception of Wagner is often based on the two pillars of the 1861 Tannhäuser production and that of Lohengrin in 1891....
Watch Now: Waltraud Meier: I follow a voice within me (Documentary, 2008)
A portrait of the mezzo-soprano singer Waltraud Meier Presenting her on stage and in rehearsal as Didon, Ortrud, Leonore, Amneris, Siegl...
Watch Now: Carlos Kleiber: Traces to Nowhere.
Carlos Kleiber was one of the legendary conductors of his time, famous for his infrequent, but supreme interpretations. He had an unusual ...
Watch Now: Sir Georg Solti Great Conductors In Rehearsal. Tannhauser
Rehearsing and conducting the Overture to Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner with the Süddeutsche Rundfunk Symphony Orchestra Available Su...
Lecture: Reinventing Wagner After Hitler. London. Feb 2018
REINVENTING WAGNER AFTER HITLER A lecture by Dr. Patrick Carnegy German Historical Institute, 17 Bloomsbury Square, London WC1A 2...
Sunday, 24 December 2017
A Happy, Wagnerian Christmas - Despite Much To Make It Seem Otherwise
Its been a very odd year and possibly not the best for many, Politics have split many people in at least two very large economies: the UK...
Sunday, 10 September 2017
Study Weekend, University Of Oxford: Wagner & Philosophy. Oct 2017
Looks rather interesting. Some impressive tutors. Places still available. And only £77 for the full weekend Wagner and Philosophy Overvi...
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