I have had this for a little while but hardly used it. However, it does now update from here so, if you are interested you can "f...

Katharina Wagner, is giving interviews again. You can read the full interview - in German alas -   here. However, while there is much to b...

Having heard Ben give one of his finest Tristan's in many years recently (I will produce a review shortly - if a late one) one hopes tha...

Sir John Tomlinson: The Narrations of Gurnemanz and Wotan's Journey' - A Recital A recital by Sir John Tomlinson, accompanied ...

Nominated as one of 2012's Artists Of The Year, we cast a spotlight on his Wagnerian career - in music words and vision (if you have S...

Yes, its that time of year yet again, and while this years Gramophone awards contains many worthy nominations (the full list of nomination...

Ahead of  the PBS broadcast of the MET Ring Cycle, "Radio West" recorded the following program wherein  Harvard professor of Mu...

Leonard Slatkin opens the Orchestre national de Lyon's 2012-2013 – his second one as the orchestra's music director – with the Requi...

The Wagners - they admit they don't meet up that often. "When shall we two meet again?  In thunder, lightening or in rain?" ...

Left to right: Ignatz Waghalter, Irmina Trynkos, Alexander Walker, Giorgi Latsabidze As you can no doubt imagine, we receive an ever gr...

Daniel Carroll critically evaluates and  investigates the background of Hurn and Root's infamous book The Truth About Wagner. A well res...

Andrew Clarke at the FT has selected, what some might consider a rather intriguing if idiosyncratic, list of best recordings of the Ring ...

WAGNER and Verdi stand like monoliths on the musical landscape next year, but the demands of staging the grandest of grand opera mean the ...

A lecture around Richard Wagner and Das Rheingold — "Sublime Beauty with a Sinister Soul? Wagner's Music, his Antisemitism, and...

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra announced today that Andris Nelsons, one of the world’s most sought after conductors, will be e...

Audioclip from a lecture by Jeffrey Swann, Pianist and Musicologist, given May 3, 2012. One can listen to the complete 59 minute lectur...

Plus Mark Delavan - recorded May 22 3012 Youtube excerpt below, full 47 minute interview hosted by the Wagner Society of New York and c...

No one does a put down like Nietzsche: Also, in HTML, and EPUB. Click the link to download - or in the case of the HTML file read online. ...

Perhaps not that well known but Jonathan Meese has already presented a version of Parsifal in 2005. Admittedly not an opera production but o...

Update: Added Meese's discussion of the dictatorship of art and the neutrality of the swastika. People have asked why the Wagnerian h...

Finding myself with a few spare credits at emusic that need to be used before the month recycles (don't ask, they use a very odd subscri...

Have to say that in the interest of fairness one asked some people not involved in The Wagnerian to judge. Plus, there were far to many entr...

Below is the first in a series of papers from Wagner scholar Daniel J Carroll (I include Daniel's brief bio below). In what follows, he...

Current issue The July 2012 issue (vol.6, no.2), now available, contains the following feature articles: • The New Wagnerian Menagerie: ...

To mark the 200th anniversary in May 2013 of the birth of Richard Wagner, the School of Music, University of Leeds, in collaboration with ...

Or at lest in the form of  Johnathon Dove's adoption. From Union Avenue Opera - never let it be said that you have to be an opera compan...

Syberberg's much lauded, 1982 film of Parsifal is to finally receive its DVD re-release in September (it will also be available to downl...

To be released by Deutsche Grammophon  on 9/9/12 the complete cycle will be available on 8 DVDs and 5 Blu-ray discs. Suggested retail pric...

"Oh, look. The locals are greeting us with burning torches" The following is printed in  the comment section of  yesterdays Gu...

Ok, I have a little confession to make: The first Caption Competition went a little wrong as I somehow managed to lose most of the entries...

Exclusive: Kaufmann is a member of the Beth Lynch Fan Club Well,  in 3 hours time should you have arrived here at BST 14:21 but I w...

In a statement released through the MET (in who's production of Parsifal he will performing next year), Evgeny Nikitin has clarified tha...

This looks like an advert and for that I apologize, but should you be interested I present for your attention. Personally, I am always suspi...

Winifred & Hitler It is without doubt true that the Wagner family seem  to take each other to court at the drop of a hat - and it se...

Andrea Moses' production for the  Staatstheater Stuttgart - enjoy

Stefan Herheim 's production of Parsifal (known affectionately around these parts as "The Rocky Horror Parsifal Show: or How I ...