RingQuest: Tolkien, A Ring, Heavy Metal & Paul Raymond Gregory

We are often surprised by how many people with an interest in Wagner - and the Ring cycle in particular - also have an interest in Tolkien and the Lord Of The Rings. At the same time, we find a greater than expected number with an interest in heavy...

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Bayreuth Parsifal (2016) Now On DVD & Blu-ray

At least this production has actually made it to DVD. Be warned, there are people this will offend, although probably not as much as good old Monty Pythons excellent, Life Of Brian did to others once upon a time or the equally superb The Last...

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Listen To Bayreuth Festival 2017 - On Demand

First, apologies: the schedule and where to listen to this year's festival should have been auto upload prior to the first performance on the 25th July. It seems that did not happen.  Blame poor programming on our part. Blame the fact we did...

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Wagner On The True Meaning Of: Reality, Love, The Ring, Wotan, Brunhilde and More

Wagner And Rockel - 1865 "But it is not the repulse of Alberich by the Rhine-daughters - the repulse was inevitable owing to their nature - that was the cause of all the mischief. Alberich and his ring would have been powerless to harm the gods...

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The Wagnerian On Facebook

I'm Waiting You might not be aware, but The Wagnerian has its own Facebook page, been one for years, to be honest. Where have you been? We mention it now because there are a number of Wagner-related items that we share there - and over at Twitter,...

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Watch Now: The Making Of WNO Ring Cycle

A short series of documentaries looking at the 2016 staging of Washington National Opera's Ring cycle....

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Alex Ross: Wagner In America

Alex Ross returns to his native Washington, D.C., in this afternoon symposium on Wagner connections to American culture.. Fascinating. ...

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Richard Wagner To Star In Anime Series ClassicaLoid Season Two

Well, this is going to get a bit complicated. We are more than aware of the dangers of stereotyping - especially, stereotyping our more than diverse readership. However, we feel a large number of you have perhaps never experienced, in any detail, the...

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ROH To Revive Warner's Ring Cycle . Cast Details Added

No. Before you ask, we have no idea why or what either The Royal Opera House will, once again, revive Keith Warner's, sometimes troubled, production of the Ring between  September and  November (three cycles) 2018. It will be conducted by...

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John Cage, Frank Scheffer, Nikolaus Lehnhoff & The Ring in 4.24 Minutes.

In 1987 John Cage commissioned Frank Scheffer to record Nikolaus Lehnhoff's Ring at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Of course, being both Cage and Scheffer this was not to be a straightforward recording. Instead, the entire cycle was to take the form...

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Bayreuth Ring 2017: Tickets Still Available

How times have changed! Some of us can recall having to wait years for tickets to Bayreuth - especially a Bayreuth Ring.  But that appears to be no longer the case. Once again, while everything else has sold out for this year's...

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Alex Ross Gives Update On Wagner Book - And Evidence

Some of us have been waiting, somewhat patiently, for news on the always erudite - and enjoyable to read - Alex Ross's planned book about Wagner and "Wagnrianism" titled, unsurprisingly enough, "Wagnerism". Well, as we begin our Wagner and Norse...

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What Are We to Make Of Toscanini.

Toscanini with Wieland Wagner David Denby, at the New Yorker, discusses and reevaluates Toscanini while simultaneously reviewing Harvey Sachs' new biography of the conductor - released to coincide with the 150 year anniversary of Toscanini's birth....

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Kent Nagano To Begin "HIP" Performance Of Ring From 2020,

Kent Nagano and  the Concerto Köln have begun a project to reproduce a "Historically Informed Performance" of the Ring during 2020 to 2021.  In their most recent collaboration, Concerto Köln and  Kent Nagano, pursue a unique project:...

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Wagner's greatest roles

How does it feel to encounter, at first hand, the Herculean demands made by Wagner’s most iconic roles? By Arnold Whittall In both Rienzi and Tannhäuser (again, in contrast to Holländer), the title-role is given to a tenor, seen by Wagner as the ideal...

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Paul Heise's life is Richard Wagner.

An overview of Paul Heise's (creator of Wagnerheim)"obsession" with Wagner. Paul Heise's life is Richard Wagner.The Annapolis resident has immersed himself in the 19th-century German composer's Ring Cycle for over 35 years, dropping out of graduate...

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Sex and The Married Wagnerian

One from the archives: 7 years ago (where does the time fly?) our editor published the following. Followed a few weeks later by part two- which can be found here by clicking here.  We have gained many, many new readers since then, and find...

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Watch Now: Tristan Und Isolde. René Kollo & Gwyneth Jones

Again, made freely avaible by Euroarts. One of our early Tristan's on the then newly emerging DVD format. This performance was recorded (in HD) in Tokyo during the Deutsche Oper Berlin's 1993 Japan tour. René Kollo - Tristan Robert Lloyd...

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Watch Now: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Deutsche Oper

Made available, freely, by Euroarts. It may help one take one's mind off of all sorts of insanities. This magnificent production of Wagner's masterpiece at the Deutsche Oper Berlin, brilliantly directed by Götz Friedrich and staged by Peter Sykora,...

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Listen To The 2016 Bayreuth Parsifal.

NRK KLASSISK Radio is rebroadcasting, the 2016 Bayreuth Parsifal today at 16.00 GMT . Full details below. To listen, simply click this link. You might also have to press play, but no matter your native language, hopefully, the play icon should...

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A Wagnerian With No Wagner? Not Music To An Aussie. 10 Down, 8 Across.

Colin Dexter: 29 September 1930 – 21 March 2017) As readers are surely aware, Colin Dexter, creator of probably one of this generation's most famous Wagnerians - Inspector Endeavour Morse - sadly died last week. For those unfamiliar, Morse is a somewhat...

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Celebrate 10 years of the Wagner Journal

The Wagner Journal is 10 years old this year - no small task when so many magazines and journals are struggling to survive in the second decade of the 21 century. Happy Birthday! To celebrate, they have not only just published a new edition but revamped...

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Watch Now: Opéra Monte-Carlo's French Language Tannhauser.

But first listen to those involved in, Opéra Monte-Carlo's new production of Tannhauser,  discuss the production, the work itself and why they are staging the Charles-Louis-Etienne Nuitter translated 1861 "Paris versio...

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Was Bugs And Fudd Your First Time?

Many of the people involved in the Washington National Opera's production of the Ring say it was theirs. Well, at lest that their first exposure to Wagner's "operas" came from the same source: Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd cartoons. Or so they say in...

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Is The ‘Ring’ a shadow of the Trump presidency?

Not a real Tweet. Unsure what his thoughts on Wagner might be In this insightful essay, Richard Bammer finds reflections of todays political events in Der Ring des Nibelungen. Whatever your political views - if you have any - this is an interesting...

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Dallas Symphony Orchestra To Perform Walkure

In an exciting last season as Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Music Director - to include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Bruckner's Eighth and Mahler's Second and Fifth symphonies - Jaap van Zweden will conduct a complete, unstaged, version of Die Walkure....

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Watch Now: Walkure (Highlights) Miami Wagner Institute

Miami Wagner Institute Debut July 16th, 2016- New World Center Michael Rossi- Artistic Director Christine Goerke- Program Director/ Brünnhilde Kathleen Kelly- Principal Coach Dan Wallace Miller- Director Cast: Christine Goerke-...

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