Ben Heppner: Tristan und Isolde: Welsh National Opera (WNO) - 2012 Update

Update: We provide a Photo Preview here I did say I would try to keep you updated. However, given that it is 12 months to first night, news is not "coming thick and fast" - as would be expected. Nevertheless, WNO have very kindly provided a little...

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WNO: Don Giovanni. A new production 2011. What would Wagner say?

“Is it possible to find anything more perfect than every piece in ‘Don Giovanni’? Richard Wagner: Oper und Drama "Oh, how doubly dear and above all honour is Mozart to me that it was not possible for him to invent music for ‘Tito’ like that of ‘Don Giovanni,’...

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SF Opera: Siegfried - Review Summery.

I love opera reviews, less for what they say about the production and more for what they say about the reviewers - and human perception in general. It would be easy to think that when we go to the opera we all see and hear roughly  the same...

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Parsifal continues to be involved in legal action: Salzberg to sue Berlin Philharmonic if it does not perform Parsifal In 2013?

Emily Magee as Salome Salzburg 2011  Things have been going from bad  to worse for the Salzburg Easter Festival . First of course,  were the  allegations of corruption, fraud, police investigations, resignations, rumored suicide...

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