"A swastika is a no-go, not only in Bayreuth. " Christian Thielemann talking about Yevgeny Nikitin's disputed tattoo last yea...
Will Bayreuth's 2016 Parsifal Director Now Have To Withdraw From The Festival?
Friday, 28 June 2013
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Jonas Kaufmann To Sing Siegfried
...And Tristan, and all of the other major Wagner Heldentenor roles it would seem. If anyone was concerned that Kaufmann's first CD...
Sunday, 23 June 2013
The Ring Saga: A New Ring Cycle In Copenhagen - August 2013
The Ring Saga Celebrating the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner 2013 Consisting entirely of Scandinavian singers Der Ring des Nibelu...
Friday, 21 June 2013
Anthony Negus To Take Over Melbourne Ring Cycle?
It seems that "strong" rumours are being whispered in Australia that LFO and WNO 's Anthony Negus may take the presently, and...
Special Performance of Siegfried Idyll In London - 25% Off Tickets For Readers
Some-time ago, we brought to your attention a special performance of the Siegfried Idyll at Kings Place, London, on Friday 28 June at 8pm ...
Sofia Opera's Ring Cycle at risk from Antisemitic, anti-Romany Nationalists?
According to the Sofia Globe, Sofia National Opera, has complained in an open letter to the media that the ultra-nationalist Ataka Party, ...
Thursday, 20 June 2013
“Music of the Future, Music of the Past: Tannhäuser and Alceste at the Paris Opéra,”
Bayreuther Festspielen 1930. Excerpt from William Gibbons, “Music of the Future, Music of the Past: Tannhäuser and Alceste at the Pari...
Aidan Lang Appointed As Seattle Opera's General Director
Aiden Lang Aidan Lang will take over from Speight Jenkins as Seattle Opera 's General Director in September 2014. Prior to that he ...
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Richard Wagner: The Musical, The Trailer?
It's either this or Frank Castorf's new Ring cycle. You decide . The Berlin choreographer, award-winning dancer and artistic direc...
Sunday, 16 June 2013
Mini Review: P. Craig Russell's The Ring of the Nibelung
"The comic-book artist P. Craig Russell sees the "Ring" as a crucial evolutionary step in the development of superheroes a...
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Trailer: The National Theater Mannheim Ring Cycle or: A Ring In 2 Minutes
One assumes your reaction to this will depend on how much, or not, you liked Achim Freyer's LA Ring cycle More Details...
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
20 Wagner Related Desert Island Discs.
Chosen either because of their direct connection to Wagner or because they somehow interest us and included Wagner in their Desert Isl...
Listen Complete: Lotte Lehmann on Desert Island Discs - 1959
The BBC Radio 4 programme Desert Island Discs was first broadcast on 29 January 1942 and continues to broadcast. It invites "castaways...
Tuesday, 11 June 2013
New CD: Pape, Hampson, Skelton, Domingo and more sing - John Denver?
Bet you thought you'd never see a John Denver CD here? Well, frankly neither did we but it shows the sort of horrors we go to to provi...
WNO, Wagner Dream: Review Summary
It must be said that when Jonathan Harvey's Wagner Dream was premiered in 2007, a more than interesting soundscape, and dramatic idea, t...
Tannhauser: Melchior Flagstad Janssen Thorborg Leinsdorf
Our editor makes a lucky find on youtube and feels like sharing. We promise you will not hear more from him for sometime. Presently r...
Sunday, 9 June 2013
Opera Australia Remain Confident Of "Ringing" Success
Lyndon Terracini.finds a use for spam emails? Talking this week about recent events, Opera Australia's Artistic Director Lyndon Ter...
Saturday, 8 June 2013
Editorial: Why Greek Opera Should Not Be Alone In Giving Wagner To The Unemployed
Warrant for the arrest of Richard Wagner.16 May 1849 "The Wagnerian" "does not do politics". In part because of the ...
Thursday, 6 June 2013
Annette Dasch To Perform Wesendonck Lieder. Middle Temple Hall. London. September
On September 23rd, Annette Dasch is coming to Middle Temple Hall to give a Temple Song recital. The highlight of this recital will be Wag...
Wednesday, 5 June 2013
Opera Australia's Ring in Melbourne loses its conductor. Nessun dorma?
Richard Mills, taking a backseat? In a very odd turn of events , Richard Mills has decided to quit as conductor of Opera Australia's...
"Wagner and the Jews". By Daniel Barenboim
"Another taboo that continues to be maintained in Israel is the performance of Wagner’s works within the country. To this I must say...
Bank Of Latvia Release Richard Wagner Silver Coin
"The auditorium of the old Stadttheater ...was a pretty gloomy place. A native of Riga (who later) compared it to a "barn" (w...
Tuesday, 4 June 2013
Lecture: Wagner 200. Dr Paul Coones. The Bodleian, Oxford
A video lecture by lecturer and conductor Dr Paul Coones celebrating the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner. The talk is preceded by Sie...
Monday, 3 June 2013
Why No Love For Wagner In The USA? Alex Ross Ponders
As a writer who likes the work of Wagner in the USA, is Alex Ross on his own? “One hundred years ago there was an enormous fad for Wagne...
British Library Puts Wagner's Early Original Manuscripts Online
From MS 119 – pencil doodlings on the name Wagner. To mark Wagner 200, the British Library have made available online its entire colle...
Audio: WNO Lohengrin's creative team in conversation with Tom Service
Recorded at the Hay Festival the day after WNO's new Lohengrin premiere: Director Antony McDonald, Associate Director Helen Cooper a...
Friday, 31 May 2013
Jonas Kaufmann Withdraws From La Scala Recital Due To Illness
The recital was originally scheduled for Saturday 1 June. However, La Scala has just announced that Jonas Kaufmann has had to withdra...
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