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Showing posts with label Bayreuth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bayreuth. Show all posts
Thursday, 27 October 2011

The Bluffers Guide To: Frank Castorf

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Frank Castorf UPDATE: Never say you didn't hear it here first - unless you didn't. As discussed back in July 2011, 2013's B...
Saturday, 3 September 2011

Bayreuth Ticket Sales: Criminal investigation launched

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Bayreuth Ticket allocation has been in the news of late - as regular readers will be aware - but it seems that to now add further woes to...
Sunday, 31 July 2011

Missed A Bayreuth Live Broadcast? Then Listen to them here - while you can

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Bayreuth has now completed its first cycle this year and every opera has been broadcast. But wait. What if you missed one? Don't worry, ...
Friday, 29 July 2011

Bayreuth: Why would anyone go for the music?

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Kate Brown goes to Bayreuth on behalf of DW and finds much more than  opera - or giant penises for that matter Bottoms up, Wagner The B...
Wednesday, 27 July 2011

Bayreuth 2011: 27/07/11 - Lohengrin - Listen Live and on demand there after.

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I have been trying to keep only to Bayreuth Broadcasts from BR-Klassik. The reasons for this are as follows: The broadcasts are in a high ...

Baumgarten blames lack of rehearsal time on Tannhäuser Boos? Bayreuth 2011

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Tannhäuser fights for his "morals" - in his pants Really? It takes Baumgarten, according to an interview today, years to rehe...
Tuesday, 26 July 2011

Where and when to listen to: Bayreuth 2011: Tristan und Isolde

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"After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true. --S...
Sunday, 24 July 2011

Why Nike Wagner feels closer to Liszt than her Great Grandfather

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Nike Wagner: Still in the hot seat? I was half way through translating this when SPIEGEL ONLINE have just gone and done it for free - sto...
Saturday, 9 July 2011

Bayreuth 2011 Preview 2: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg

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Yes, it's a revival and yes it's Katharina Wagner's "infamous" production - don't expect a Glydebourne here. Oddly...
Wednesday, 6 July 2011

Where to listen to: Bayreuth 2011. Tannhauser (New Production)

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ConductorThomas Hengelbrock, making his Bayreuth debut It seems a little early but as some people wish to know. The truth of course is t...
Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Sebastian Baumgarten: Tannhäuser in red pants? Bayreuth 2011

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A little more about Sebastian Baumgarten, making his Bayreuth debut this year with his new production of Tannhauser. And do they look a litt...

Bayreuth 2011 Preview: Tannhauser.

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Sebastian Baumgarten: The man to rescue  Tannhauser from its text? Yes, it's nearly that time again - Bayreuth! You may not be there...
Tuesday, 28 June 2011

ARTE to begin to broadcast Bayreuth Festival live on TV

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Of Mice and Knights The Bayreuth Festival will be screened live on television for the first time during the 2011 season, in an agreement...
Wednesday, 22 June 2011

Bayreuth Festival Tickets: Make more available - or else?

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This is a fascinating article from the Economist. Of course we are all aware of the "peculiarities" - and shear difficulties -  of...
Friday, 17 June 2011

New remastering of Keilberth's stereo Flying Dutchman 1955, Bayreuth

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This is a "press release" and thus I cannot vouch for it's accuracy. However, I will say that I have the Testament release and...