Andrea Moses' production for the Staatstheater Stuttgart - enjoy
Watch Now: Don Giovanni - Staatstheater Stuttgart
Sunday, 29 July 2012
Listen now & on demand: Parsifal, Bayreuth 2012
Stefan Herheim 's production of Parsifal (known affectionately around these parts as "The Rocky Horror Parsifal Show: or How I ...
Saturday, 28 July 2012
Listen Now & on demand: Tannhauser Bayreuth 2012. Christian Thielemann
With a change of conductor, and other cast changes, Bayreuth has "pulled out the big guns" in an effort - some have argued - to...
Friday, 27 July 2012
Evgeny Nikitin will perform in the METS Parsifal next year
Despite the latest controversy over the, then very young, Nikitin's tattoos - which lead to him withdrawing from this years Dutchman ...
Jan Philipp Gloger:"It's (The Dutchman) a love with utopian elements..."
D W's Hans Christoph von Bock talks to Bayreuth's latest director Jan Philipp Gloger made his Bayreuth Festival debut with the ...
Listen now and on-demand: Bayreuth Lohengrin 2012
Should you have missed it today - or are waiting for some radio stations to broadcast it on another day, don't fret - or indeed wait...
Productions are not the only things to be revived at Bayreuth: Angela Merkel Joins in.
Lest you missed it, belt tightening, (and the most loved figure in European politics after Cameron?) Angela Merkel has joined in the Bayreut...
Thursday, 26 July 2012
Listen now and on-demand: Bayreuth Tristan und Isolde 2012
Should you have missed it today - or are waiting for some radio stations to broadcast it on Saturday, don't fret - or indeed wait. In...
New Bayreuth Flying Dutchman: Listen here and on demand
Should you have missed todays new production of The Dutchman at Bayreuth you can listen to it now - and for a week or so - on demand cou...
Would it surprise you to learn: 'Dutchman' booed at premiere
(AFP)BAYREUTH, Germany — The production team of the new staging of "The Flying Dutchman" that opened this year's Bayr...
Wednesday, 25 July 2012
Rachel Nicholls: "No-one ever tells you you're ready to sing Wagner - you have to dare to try for yourself.”
“No-one ever tells you you're ready to sing Wagner - you have to dare to try for yourself.” Rachel Nicholls . A new Brunnhilde only ...
Where have you been and coming up next on The Wagnerian
As regular readers may be aware - confirmed by a number of very kind emails - The Wagnerian has been keeping a very low profile for the...
Sunday, 15 July 2012
Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 National Gallery/ROH.
Metamorphosis: Titian 2012 opens on stage at the Royal Opera House this Saturday and will be screened live around the country on Monday ...
Thursday, 12 July 2012
David Cronenberg in discussion: A Dangerous Method
Director David Cronenberg talks with moderator James Hosney about his film A Dangerous Method at an AFI event. Plus the trailer, plus a...
Monday, 9 July 2012
Watch BSO's Götterdämmerung free, online 15 July
BSO are streaming the final part Andreas Kriegenburg's Götterdämmerung free from their website on July 15 at 16:00 UK time. You...
Friday, 6 July 2012
Watch Now: Requiem (Berlioz) - Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Festival de Saint-Denis 2012
Requiem (Berlioz) - Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Festival de Saint-Denis 2012 (June 28) With the Monteverdi Choir, the Choir of Radio F...
Wednesday, 4 July 2012
David Longstreth: "I was obsessed with "Tristan and Isolde" and the Ring Cycle, that sort of shit"
For the average (assuming there is such a creature) Wagnerian this may need a bit of explaining: When I am not listening to Wagner I have ...
Monday, 2 July 2012
Original version of Jerusalem for solo voice and England song rediscovered
Charles Hubert Parry, Jerusalem and other musical classics have been recorded for the first time as they were originally conceived nearl...
Schopenhauer & Freud: One and the same?
Over at The Wagner Blog , Peterp has published a review of a new book which examines the Ring Cycle from a Freudian perspective: The Wagner ...
Glimmerglass Festival 2013: To include new production of The Flying Dutchman - Francesca Zambello, Jay Hunter Morris
Glimmerglass Festival has announced its 2013 season. Among productions of Lerner and Loewe’s Camelot; Verdi’s King for a Day (Un giorno di...
Sunday, 1 July 2012
Bryn Terfel: "I cannot wait to go on stage to do this 'Ring' in Covent Garden"
(Reuters - Michael Roddy) - Welsh bass-baritone Bryn Terfel got a big kick out of hobnobbing on stage last year at New York's Beacon Th...
Despite a $1 million deficit and layoffs Seattle Opera's 2013 Ring Cycle is well on track
Despite 1 million deficit and layoffs Seattle Opera's 2013 Ring Cycle is well on trackHowever, the 2014 International Wagner Competition...
You got a minute guv? Fancy a ticket to Bayreuth? No questions asked?
"By the way, did you check our Ebay account today?" Handelsblatt is reporting that the black-market for Bayreuth tickets is bo...
Monday, 25 June 2012
Listen Now: Das Liebesverbot - Hermann Prey, Wolfgang Fassler & Wolfgang Sawallisch
Made available by ORF. Should remain available "on demand" for the next few days - perhaps longer. Catch it while you can T...
Sunday, 24 June 2012
Wagner's women to be released from their curse in Munich: A Sven Holm production.
An evening without gods or heroes but instead, Cosima, Winifred, Gudrun and Katharina Wagner, plus lots of blue-clad maidens, a male cho...
Why Barenboim, fights to perform Richard Wagner in Israel
From an interview with SPIEGEL published today: World-famous Argentine-Israeli conductor Daniel Barenboim is noted for his strong vi...
Spot the naked Wagnerian
Seriously, anyone that makes a comment about "Where's Wally/Waldo" is out of here. Spencer Tunick’s latest art installation, “...
Friday, 22 June 2012
WNO, Bryn Terfel & Wagner: At Buckingham Palace
Members of Welsh National Opera performed before Prince Charles and more than 200 guests at the opera company’s first Royal Gala at Buc...
The beginning of the end for Janowski's Wagner Concerts
Fritz Lang's Die Nibelungen The final part of the Wagner concert series by Marek Janowski and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berli...
"This is like opium drugs for the Wagnerians": Adam Fischer
(Reuters) "I don't know any other composer who had this intense effect that makes people crazy," conductor Adam Fischer, 6...
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