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Readers may have noticed a new addition to the right-hand column of the site. Entitled "Featured Book" this will display a boo...
Featured Book: The Wagner Experience.
Wednesday, 18 September 2013
The Alma Fetish - a most Wagnerian opera?
Kokoschka's "infamous" "Alma Doll ‘It appealed to something vaguely perverse in me, the idea of the living doll, like...
The First Image Of Richard Wagner, Aged 22
During last year and indeed, this year, new images of Wagner have been found, or claimed to have been found. In the debate about the aut...
Tuesday, 17 September 2013
Lauritz Melchior: "Ein Schwert verhiess mir der Vater" 1941
Lauritz Melchior with Wife Petting His Great Dane Lauritz Melchior sings "Ein Schwert verhiess mir der Vater from Die Wa...
Monday, 16 September 2013
Watch Now: Mendelssohn & Beethoven. Waldbühne. Berliner Philharmoniker
That such beauty can come from a place built by a regime capable of such horrors, may prove that there is hope for humanity after all. And...
Watch Now: Mahler's 8th. Dudamel. Salzburg
A little bit of Mahler is always good for you every now and then. The fiery Gustavo Dudamel conducts Mahler'sSymphony of a Thousand at...
Watch Now: Verdi's Don Carlo. Kaufmann, Harteros, Hampson. Salzburg
One of our more beloved Verdi operas. You will need to register to watch all of it but it is free and not problematic. The Salzburg Festiv...
Wagner Societies To Get Their Tickets Back?
As readers maybe aware, it has long been the tradition for Wagner societies around the world to receive an allocation of Bayreuth ticket...
"Wagner Rules" At Opera News Awards
The editors of Opera News are pleased to announce the honorees for the ninth annual Opera News Awards, paying tribute to five superb artis...
Bavarian Arts Minister Says Festival Should Stay With Wagner Family
Wolfgang Heubisch In an interview yesterday, Bavarian Arts Minister, Wolfgang Heubisch, has said that a Wagner should continue to manag...
Saturday, 14 September 2013
Watch: Wagner V Verdi - On-demand
And not even pay per view. As part of the Deloitte Ignite festival at the Royal Opera House, on Sunday Stephen Fry will host a "ba...
From Bayreuth To Leipzig: Wagner Comes Home
Reproduced with the kind permission of the author, noted Wagner scholar, Dr Mark Berry. To read more of Mark's papers and essays on Wagn...
Tuesday, 10 September 2013
Voigt Cancels WNO Tristan - Theorin and Mellor Drink The "Love Potion" Instead
Deborah Voigt, has pulled out of WNO's production of Tristan Und Isolde beginning September 15th. Ms Voigt told press: “Returni...
Thursday, 5 September 2013
The Flying Dutchman: The Comic Book
In order to celebrate Richard Wagner's 200th birthday anniversary the Goethe-Institut was looking for adaptations of Wagner's m...
Sunday, 1 September 2013
David Frost's Last Interview: Daniel Barenboim
It is with great sadness that we announce that David Frost has died of a heart attack aged 74. It seems that Frost's final intervie...
Tannhauser: The Problem Opera
Author of the highly recommended Wagner blog " Sacrifice " casts his always highly acute - and sometimes controversial - gaze at W...
Tristan Und Isolde Must Wait Even Longer
T & I take a break According to some critics its bad enough that Wagner makes the audience wait till the final act for the drama...
Important Notification. Buy Tickets To Bayreuth 2014 - without waiting and online
This should prove interesting - and perhaps an indicator of the future? Expect problems with the online ticketing service when it goes live...
Saturday, 31 August 2013
Ernest Newman's Wagner Operas Republished As Print And Ebook
Ernest Newman's, perhaps legendary, 1949, "Wagner Operas" (or "Wagner Nights" as some may know it) has once aga...
New Wagner Book: Richard Wagner A Life in Music - Martin Geck
English Translation - by Stewart Spencer - of Martin Geck's Richard Wagner A Life in Music . One that has been added to our reading list...
Tuesday, 20 August 2013
Watch On-demand: Don Carlo. Salzburg, Jonas Kaufmann, et al
Antonio Pappano conductor Peter Stein stage director Ferdinand Wögerbauer set designer Annamaria Heinreich costume designer Joachim Bar...
Saturday, 10 August 2013
Download recordings of all of Wagner's "mature" works - free
Now while this should not be assumed as legal advice, a little explanation, in the simplest of terms: under copyright laws (in most count...
Tuesday, 6 August 2013
Pierre Boulez Cancels Lucerne performances
Pierre Boulez has cancelled his two appearances at Lucerne on Sept. 7 and 9. A spokesperson announced that the cancellation was due to Bo...
Listen Now: Seattle Opera's Ring Cycle Cast - 2013
Kindly provided by Seattle Opera. all performances recorded in rehearsal: There are still a few tickets available. Check here for deta...
Watch Now: Asher Fisch Discuses The Ring Motifs
Asher Fisch explores the "building blocks" of Siegfried's Funeral March, highlighting Wagner's evocative motifs an...
Listen Live : Seattle Opera - Der Ring des Nibelungen 2013
This years Seattle Oper's "Green Ring" will be broadcast in its entirety on Classic KING FM. After a few days delay King ...
Saturday, 3 August 2013
Watch Now - On-demand: Die Meistersinger Von Nürnberg, Salzburg 2013
Made available by 3Sat. Catch it while you can - it won't stay up for long. It is, as expected, very Stefan Herheim. Daniele Gatt...
New Issue Of Wagner Journal Published
'The bicentenary of Wagner will be celebrated throughout the world (albeit with at least one notable exception), wrote the edit...
Friday, 2 August 2013
Does Bayreuth Deserve Better?
Frank Castorf reminisces about 80's dance craze "voguing". Eva W feigns ignorance "Castorf is a director who took th...
Listen Now: Why Wagner May Murder You In Your Bed
Wagnerian in renames site The Portillian shock? The Moral Maze is a radio programme on BBC Radio 4, broadcast since 1990. Four regular ...
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...
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