Wagnerian in renames site The Portillian shock? The Moral Maze is a radio programme on BBC Radio 4, broadcast since 1990. Four regular ...
Listen Now: Why Wagner May Murder You In Your Bed
Friday, 2 August 2013
Rick Fulker Concludes His Bayreuth Diary: "This emotion is pure hate."
" Because Castorf won't leave, the audience stands up and starts to. I feel queasy." "...it's clearly the public...
Thursday, 1 August 2013
DVD Release Of The Herheim Parsifal From Bayreuth Cancelled!
Prayers maybe the only way this production sees DVD release One does wonder about business and management decisions being made at Bayr...
The Wagnerian Recommends
We often receive requests to recommend Rings cycles, Wagner books, etc. For sometime we have considered the best way to try and provide a...
Frank Castorf tells booing Bayreuth audience, "You're mental mate"
Frank Castorf tells audience, "And you know what you can do 'an all" Oh dear! How etiquette has fallen at Bayreuth. As is...
Wednesday, 31 July 2013
First Look: Stefan Herheim's Meistersinger. Its A Load Of Cobblers
A first look at Stefan Herheim's eagerly awaited, Salzburg Festival, Meistersinger:
Oh Frank What have you done: fellatio, walkouts, machine guns and boos?
Critics and the present day Bayreuth audience are a fickle bunch it would seem. You see, despite the odd boo and some reports to the contrar...
Tuesday, 30 July 2013
Missed A Bayreuth 2013 Live Broadcast? Then Listen to them here - while you can
Castorf's Rheingold 2013 We normally leave this till all of the performances have been broadcast but demand this year has been so ...
Sunday, 28 July 2013
Listen to: Tristan und Isolde - Prom 19
Tristan und Isolde. Operakoret Given that there are no new broadcasts from Bayreuth today, we thought, should you have missed it, you m...
Harmonic Analysis: Wagner's Prelude to Tristan und Isolde, Act I
Harmonic Analysis: Wagner's Prelude to Tristan und Isolde, Act I - David Bennett Thomas
Watch Now: Wagner 200 Gala - From Bayreuth
Bayreuth, Festspielhaus May 22, 2013 01. Richard Wagner DIE WALKÜRE, Erster Aufzug Sieglinde : Eva Maria Westbroek Siegmun...
Just One Day In Bayreuth
Bayreuth veteran Rick Fulker is in the Bavarian town for the new production of Richard Wagner's opera cycle "The Ring of the Nibe...
Watch Now: Wagner & Verdi. Netrebko, Westbroek , Theorin, Terfel, Gergiev .
Valery Gergiev celebrates the two bicentennials : those of Wagner and Verdi! Valery Gergiev opens this concert with the first act of O...
Franco de Gemini (September 1928 - July 2013)
The harmonica is the Wagnerian's "weapon of choice" and so, off topic or not: Franco De Gemini, who probably became most ...
Friday, 26 July 2013
Frank Castorf Admits To Not Really Being A Fan Of Wagner's Music
"I don't know whether I'm a big fan of Wagner's music," says Castorf. "You can't take all of this so terribly...
First Full Photos Of Bayreuth's 2013 Ring Cycle
Rhine-Daughters? We are more than aware these will divide opinion so shall not comment. Should you want to buy any of these images it...
Tuesday, 23 July 2013
Spoiler: What Bayreuth's 2013 Ring Really Looks Like
Of course, "unofficial" descriptions have been in the wild for sometime (as indeed the odd photo) but Gramophone have now come ...
Monday, 22 July 2013
Where to Listen To: Proms Ring Cycle - 2013 Staatskapelle Berlin/Daniel Barenboim
Starting shortly of course. Should be available "on-demand" for 7 days. Click the relevant link to go to the relevant producti...
Listen To: Wagner: Ring. Thielemann, Wiener Staatsoper, Complete (Spotify)
Should you still be debating whether this is worth your time. It might however, explain why you can now buy his Bayreuth Ring cycle for £4.9...
Kupfer Ring On Itunes & Why You might Want To Ignore It.
Itunes has now made the Kupfer Ring available to download - see here . Now, while there are certainly benefits for the impatient in bu...
Sunday, 21 July 2013
Seattle Opera's Brünnhilde and Siegfried In Rehearsal
General Director Speight Jenkins introduces you to Alwyn Mellor and Stefan Vinke -- two of the new-for-2013 principals. Includes foot...
Saturday, 20 July 2013
Frank Castorf says forget bicentenary, you will be lucky to get a Ring of the year.
Frank Castorf: "But look. My Watch says its only 8.30 AM" Ever wondered what it was like for directors working in Bayreuth?...
Wagner Reloaded.
Wagner Reloaded - Apocalyptica meets Wagner We are reliably informed that tickets are still available. This is the first night and was o...
Thursday, 18 July 2013
Mini Review: Raymond Furness' 'Richard Wagner".
It should probably come as little surprise that this year would produce a veritable deluge of books about Wagner and his work (indeed, apa...
For Whom The Bell Tolls: Baumgarten's Tannhäuser It Seems
Sebastian Baumgarten's "affectionately" nick named "biomass Tannhäuser" has been axed. It seems that not even Bay...
Where to Listen To Bayreuth 2013 - Online
Edit: Click Here to listen "on-demand as each is broadcast" Nearly that time again. There are of course any number of plac...
Wagner Performs Wagner: The Flying Dutchman
It must be said that recent events in London and Bayreuth had left us feeling somewhat "exhausted" with events around Wagner - and...
Wednesday, 10 July 2013
Götterdämmerung: The End Of The London Wagner Society?
In 1873 the first Wagner Society was founded in England. By 1884 it had been "refounded. In 1893 it was disbanded. The reasons for ...
Saturday, 6 July 2013
The Wagner Society V Dame Gwyneth Jones: What Really Took Place
What would Richard say? “You would do me a great service if you created a foundation which would allow those without the necessary means...
Thursday, 4 July 2013
A New Production Of The Dutchman - in Logan, Utah
Its always good to see Wagner away from the usual places. Tickets starting at $12! A new production of Der fliegende Holländer from Ut...
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