Interstellar Galactomic Nabucco
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The 2025 production of Verdi’s Nabucco recorded in the Arena di Verona is
nothing if not spectacular; visually and vocally. One might ask though if
it’s an...
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Reviews Of Solti's Recording of the Ring Cycle by: AI, Fredrick Nietzsche and Hanslick.
It is nearly impossible to peruse a newspaper these days without encountering someone expressing fear regarding the rise of AI. Much of this... Read on →
Parsifal Study Day 13 May 2023 Manchester
Should you be in Manchester, well worth attending Wagner Society Manchester PARSIFAL STUDY DAY 13 May 2023 9.30am until 16.30 Anthony Burg... Read on →
New Edition Of The Wagner Journal Published
The March 2023 issue (vol.17, no.1) of The Wagner Journal has been published and contains the following feature articles: • Wolfgang Mende ... Read on →
Wagner & Desire
All things partake in the Oneness of Reality and therefore all things are interconnected. The sacred threads that weave through the various ... Read on →
Watch Now Complete: RHINEGOLD Wagner – Birmingham Opera Company
Birmingham Opera Company, known for staging opera in empty warehouses and disused factories, here performs RhineGold in the relatively conve... Read on →
Watch Now: PARSIFAL: Hungarian State Opera
Streamed LIVE on OperaVision on 15 April 2022 at 19:00 CET and available until 15 October 2022: CAST Amfortas: Michele Kalmandy Titurel... Read on →
March Issue Of The Wagner Journal Available Now
And a rather good one it is. Highly recommended - perhaps essential. It is worth buying for Justin Mueller's item on Hans-Jürgen Syberbe... Read on →
Watch Now: The Complete Herheim' Directed Ring From Deutsche Oper Berlin
ARD 1 Has made the entire 2021 Deutsche Oper Berlin Ring Cycle available online, free. This will be until 13, July 2022. Act one of Walkur... Read on →
Watch Now: Die Walkure. Longborough Festival Opera 2021
Only available until 26, February 2022. Watch it, while you can Following Longborough Festival Opera’s critically acclaimed Das Rheingold, W... Read on →
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 →
Watch Now: World and Revolution of Richard Wagner
From Michigan Opera: an overview of Wagner, his work and times. MOT at Home is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities Read on →
Richard Wagner and the Twilight of Western Civilization
Written By: Peter Isackson According to Alex Ross in his book, “Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music,” Richard Wagner was more... Read on →
Grace Bumbry: Black Venus, White Bayreuth, Race, Sexuality And Wagner
Grace Bumbry as Venus in Wagner's "Tannhäuser" Originally published in German Studies Review, 2012. Written by Kira Thurman , ... Read on →
Watch Now: A New, Brief, Wagner Video Biography
A brief, potted, biography of Wagner and his work from Biographics. Richard Wagner: A Controversial Titan of Classical Music Read on →
Stephen Fry talks to Alex Ross About His New Book "Wagnerism"
Stephen Fry joins the Royal Philharmonic Society for a very special conversation – with the author and music critic for The New Yorker, Alex... Read on →
Two None Wagnerians Discuss Alex Ross "Wagnerism"
In his first book, Alex Ross introduced more people to "modern" classical music then NPR and the BBC had managed to do in both org... Read on →
Two Wagner Books You Must Buy This Month
It has been a few years since two books about Wagner and his work have been published in the same month, it has been even longer since both ... Read on →
Join Us Sunday, 10 May To Watch and Chat: Die Walkure, Act One. 5 PM (British Summer Time)
Join us over at Twitch for video "watch party" of act one of Walkure. Meet some new friends, chat with some old ones and most ... Read on →
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