Tuesday, 25 February 2014
Parsifal: Illustrated By Willy Pogany
Willy Pogány's illustrations for E W Rolleston retelling of Parsifal.Co-produced by G G Harrap and Co. (London) and Thomas Y Crowel...
A Wagner Poem By Charles Bukowski. Illustrated by Pat Moriarity
This was brought to our attention by a very kind reader. My German Buddy is a poem by Charles Bukowski illustrated by Pat Moriarity and...
Sunday, 23 February 2014
Wagnerians Readers Choice Awards: One Ring To Rule Them All
“One ring to rule them all, one ring to find them, one ring to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them” – J.R.R. Tolkien Edit: ...
Friday, 21 February 2014
Eva Wagner-Pasquier To Leave Bayreuth
Parting is such sweet... Reports are coming out of Germany that Eva Wagner-Pasquier has decided that she does not want to continue as ...
Thursday, 20 February 2014
Is This The Nibelung Hoard?
If it is, lets hope they haven't found the Ring... Update: Alas, it would seem not. See this update from Adrian Murdoch . You migh...
Sunday, 16 February 2014
Will The Return Of Levine & Meistersinger Revive MET's Declining Audience?
The MET has announced its 2014-15 season with sadly on one Wagner production, another revival of Otto Schenk's “Meistersinger von Nü...
LFO Receive Opera Award Nomination. Wagner Well Represented
The finalists for the 2014 The International Opera Awards have been announced with Wagner appearing extensively. At the same time Longboroug...
Thursday, 13 February 2014
Richard Wagner & The Case Of The Missing Boarding House
Wagner as he looked at the time of his London stay Our editor pops on a Deerstalker (a rather daft looking hat by the way) and becomes l...
Monday, 10 February 2014
In Chicago? Course: The Ring Cycle - Wagner's Mythic Sources
Illustration Franz Stassen THE RING CYCLE: WAGNER'S MYTHIC SOURCES Taught by Dr. Karl E. H. Seigfried of The Norse Mythology...
Free Kindle Book: "Wagner as I knew him" - Praeger
A Wagner biography written by some one who knew him and the book H.S. Chamberlain tried to ban. There is a wonderful overview of this ov...
Sunday, 9 February 2014
Wagner Madness Repeats Itself In London: 1839 & 2014
London Docks: 1839 "We were on board a merchant vessel of the smallest type. She was called the Thetis; a bust of the nymph was ere...
Saturday, 8 February 2014
Beardsley’s The Wagnerites & Shaw’s The Perfect Wagnerite
"Shaw does mention the fact that the leitmotif which accompanies Brünnhilde’s renunciation of the ring and her glorification of Siegfri...
Video: Aubrey Beardsley's Siegfried
The V&A's 'Cult of Beauty' exhibition curator Stephen Calloway discusses one of Aubrey Beardsley’s great early masterpie...
Audio:Wagner And Turn-of-the-century British Culture,
Aubrey Beardsley: The Wagnerians Simon Russell Beale explores the impact of Wagner on turn-of-the-century British culture, from the ...
Thursday, 6 February 2014
Watch Now: The Marriage of Figaro - Wichita Grand Opera
There are of course many opera productions available on youtube but this is one of the few made available by a company itself. For that ...
Finally Available: The Life of Richard Wagner - Ernest Newman
Newman's masterful 4 volume Wagner biography The Life of Richard Wagner is, at last, finally available once more. Although, we orig...
Wednesday, 5 February 2014
New CD: Schubert’s Winterreise: Jonas Kaufmann
To be released 25 February 2014. Below is the official release information from Kaufmann's website. However much he loves opera, Kauf...
Tuesday, 4 February 2014
Audio Book & Text: A Wagner Matinée. Willa Cather
"The first number was the Tannhäuser overture. When the violins drew out the first strain of the Pilgrim's chorus, my Aunt Georg...
Video: Roger Scruton - Wagner and Philosophy
How are Richard Wagner's operas shaped by his interest in philosophy? How can Immanuel Kant's vision of the human condition info...
Monday, 3 February 2014
In Discussion With Nicholas Vazsonyi. The Cambridge Wagner Encyclopedia
"Since the 1840s, Wagner has been in the headlines, and people have been very passionate about him, both pro and contra. Why? So I b...
Sunday, 2 February 2014
Zoë South. "Don’t do this as a job. It’s hard, it’s ungrateful, no one will thank you"
Zoë South. Photo: Richard Wiegold "Zoë South's Brünnhilde would grace many stages far, far larger than this. Her singing was p...
ETO On Tour: The Magic Flute March - May 2014
"Meanwhile Wagner had been doing his best to raise the standard of opera in Zurich. As we have seen, he opened the season on the 4th ...
Saturday, 1 February 2014
Review: DVD Set: Wagner's Ring - A Tale Told In Music
Originally published in January's Wagner News (issue 2012) the official publication of the Wagner Society Of England . Editor Rodger Lee...
Free Kindle Book: Wagner And His Isolde
"The world has been overcome. Through our love, our sorrow, it has overcome itself. It no longer is an enemy before which I flee, but...
