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Book Review: Richard Wagner’s Women - "We know no one crueller"

Book Review: Richard Wagner’s Women - "We know no one crueller"

Originally published in Times Literary Supplement and made available by the author, under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial... Read on →

Salzburg Summer Festival 2013 to include Die Meistersinger and Rienzi,

Salzburg Summer Festival 2013 to include Die Meistersinger and Rienzi,

Better late than never? Blame an ailing memory. Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg New production Dates: 2, 9, 12, ... Read on →

Full Wagner drama to be performed for the first time in the Middle East - 2013

Full Wagner drama to be performed for the first time in the Middle East - 2013

The Lebanese Al Bustan Festival brings the first Wagner opera to the Middle East for its 20th Anniversary Artistic Director Gianluca Ma... Read on →

DW to celebrate Wagner Bicentennial on Internet, TV and DVD

DW to celebrate Wagner Bicentennial on Internet, TV and DVD

Deutsche Welle (DW) is celebrating the upcoming 200th anniversary of German composer Richard Wagner's birth on May 22, 2013 with the T... Read on →

Very Much Off Topic: The Last Remaining Blue Whale

Very Much Off Topic: The Last Remaining Blue Whale

We hope we can be forgiven just this once (it won't become a trend we promise) but we are "fans" of both Rutger Hauer and t... Read on →

In Discussion with Barry Millington: "A kind of Damascus experience on the road to Southend pier"

In Discussion with Barry Millington: "A kind of Damascus experience on the road to Southend pier"

We recently had the opportunity to spend some time with one of Britain's – and perhaps the English speaking worlds - most well known W... Read on →

Tristan to finally make its Florida premiere: Florida Grand Opera 2013-2014

Tristan to finally make its Florida premiere: Florida Grand Opera 2013-2014

Susan Danis, FGO's General Director Announcing its 2013-2014 season, Florida Grand Opera have confirmed that they will be mounting ... Read on →

Cambridge University Press to reprint Newman's 4 volume "Life Of Richard Wagner"

Cambridge University Press to reprint Newman's 4 volume "Life Of Richard Wagner"

Perhaps the most complete biography of Wagner ever written; Ernest Newman's four volume "Life of Richard Wagner" will be made ... Read on →

Book Overview & Preview: Hermann Levi: From Brahms to Wagner

Book Overview & Preview: Hermann Levi: From Brahms to Wagner

Available in print and electronic format. Alas, it is presently sitting in a pile of very interesting books to be read. However, once we ... Read on →

Nicholas Wroe in conversation with Semyon Bychkov

Nicholas Wroe in conversation with Semyon Bychkov

The engagement diary of a leading conductor can reveal many things: musical taste, status, popularity with players, administrators and au... Read on →

Another Wagner Box Set: Wagner's Vision: Bayreuth Heritage

Another Wagner Box Set: Wagner's Vision: Bayreuth Heritage

They really are coming "hard and fast", but this one is a little different to the others so far - with a few real "treats... Read on →

New Wagner Box Set: "The Other Wagner"

New Wagner Box Set: "The Other Wagner"

The Wagner boxsets just keep coming and the newest one is the aptly titled "The Other Wagner" - just released by EMI. In a break f... Read on →

Photo: Bayreuth Festival 1927/28: Stage setting "Götterdämmerung"

Photo: Bayreuth Festival 1927/28: Stage setting "Götterdämmerung"

This postcard was sold on Ebay a few days ago. We thought you might be interested. Click on to view a larger image. 1st act, 2nd scene ... Read on →

Mariinsky Label to record Ring Cycle with: Kaufmann, Stemme, Kampe, Petrenko and Pape.

Mariinsky Label to record Ring Cycle with: Kaufmann, Stemme, Kampe, Petrenko and Pape.

As far as Wagner casts and conductors come (following his Parsifal) a new recorded Ring Cycle including: Jonas Kaufmann (Siegmund) , N... Read on →

Pay Per View: Alex Ross - Richard Wagner: Horror, Beauty, a Mirror to Our Soul

Pay Per View: Alex Ross - Richard Wagner: Horror, Beauty, a Mirror to Our Soul

While we are not fans of pay-per-view lectures we suppose someone must pay for all of those starving journalists at The New Yorker. And ... Read on →

Salvador Dali's "Mad Tristan" leaves the noumenal and returns to the world of phenomenon

Salvador Dali's "Mad Tristan" leaves the noumenal and returns to the world of phenomenon

Director Daniele Finzi Pasca, centre, and members of the production stand before a Salvador Dali painting that will serve as a backdrop ... Read on →

New Issue Of The Wagner Journal Now Available. Includes: Wagner & Milton

New Issue Of The Wagner Journal Now Available. Includes: Wagner & Milton

The November 2012 issue (vol.6, no.3), now available, contains the following feature articles: • 'Making All Things New: from Pa... Read on →

Listen Now: "Rhinemaidens" Bayreuth 1904

Listen Now: "Rhinemaidens" Bayreuth 1904

Illustration from Stories of the Wagner Opera by H. A. Guerber , 1905. The three Rhinemaidens in Cosima Wagner's Bayreuth ... Read on →

Greed and the Nature of Evil: Tolkien versus Wagner

Greed and the Nature of Evil: Tolkien versus Wagner

Originally published in 2010 in the recommended, peer reviewed Journal Of Religion and Popular Culture . Once again, we felt it was of to... Read on →

SF Opera: A whale, a swan and pair of star-cross'd lovers:

SF Opera: A whale, a swan and pair of star-cross'd lovers:

By MIKE SILVERMAN, Associated Press It made for an eclectic week at the San Francisco Opera. With the company's fall season in full... Read on →

The Wagnerian Recommends: the best of the Wagner Web 1: Think Classical

The Wagnerian Recommends: the best of the Wagner Web 1: Think Classical

The first of a number of features where I will attempt to suggest Wagner (or closely related) websites that you may not be aware of, startin... Read on →

Tristan und Isolde Productions: 2013

Tristan und Isolde Productions: 2013

Only productions that have at least announced their principle casts have been included. As always, we cannot guarantee the accuracy o... Read on →

Decca release "unheard" Solti - includes Wagner, Hotter, Nilsson, etc

Decca release "unheard" Solti - includes Wagner, Hotter, Nilsson, etc

Released in Europe on Oct 13 it will receive its North American release 4 December. If you have access to Spotify you can hear the entire tw... Read on →

The Incongruence of the Schopenhauerian Ending in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung

The Incongruence of the Schopenhauerian Ending in Wagner’s Götterdämmerung

Of late, we have been investigating the influence of a range of German philosophers on Wagners thoughts and the development of his dramas... Read on →

Concert: Waghalter: The Lost Romantic. ECO - London 14/11/12

Concert: Waghalter: The Lost Romantic. ECO - London 14/11/12

Irmina Trynkos Since first reading about this composer earlier this year I have developed a fascination for both this project and the c... Read on →

Free Ebook: Feuerbach - "The Essence of Christianity"

Free Ebook: Feuerbach - "The Essence of Christianity"

While the majority of general commentaries often stress the influence that Schopenhauer had on Wagner, it is of little doubt that Ludwig Feu... Read on →

A Flock of Nightingales: Wagner’s Music and German Philosophy

A Flock of Nightingales: Wagner’s Music and German Philosophy

Originally published in the, I believe now extinct, Canadian Aesthetics Journal , Volume 7, Autumn, 2002 "My title, “a flock of nigh... Read on →

Video: "Kicking Away the Ladder" German Idealism: Kant, Goethe, Fichte

Video: "Kicking Away the Ladder" German Idealism: Kant, Goethe, Fichte

Goethe As many will know, Wagner had an obsessive interest in philosophy - and not just Schopenhauer. How important a knowledge of the... Read on →

Wagner's Anti-Semitism and German Philosophy

Wagner's Anti-Semitism and German Philosophy

Hegel Originally published on the Teloscope website, February 2012 As an occasional feature on TELOSscope, we highlight a past Tel... Read on →

Wagner's secret admirers in Israel

Wagner's secret admirers in Israel

Theodor Herzl DANIELLA CHESLOW: Jerusalem Post For most Richard Wagner fans, the annual Wagner Festspiele (festival) in this small cit... Read on →

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