‘The overpowering accents of the music that accompanies Siegfried’s funeral cortège no longer tell of the woodland boy who set out to lear...

Frank Liszt Comic s is an irregular blog featuring moments from Liszt's life - both factual and fictional - in comic strip form. There i...

Found over at the blog of Big Time Attic , the following was created in 2010 as part of a writing class. For full details click here - whic...

Stephan Balkenhol working on his sculpture of Richard Wagner, for a memorial for the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner to be erected in ...

The ultimate seduction: revisiting the case of Wagner Wagner aimed to overthrow 19th-century silliness and replace it with a new "mu...

Originally published German issue 14/2013 (March 30, 2013) of DER SPIEGEL. Born 200 years ago, Germany's most controversial composer...

How does a person get from Pasadena City College to Julliard to become a Houston Grand Opera Studio Artist, go on to the Met in New York C...

On 14 April 2013, Sir Colin died at the age of 85 after a short illness. The London Symphony Orchestra announced his death through a stat...

Alas, have not been able to access this yet so cannot comment on its quality. Clearly the video below is basically a video "ad"...

  The great Roger Ebert: (1942 – April 4, 2013) perhaps the most intelligent and wittiest of film critics - and certainly perhaps one of...

Your humble editor has many interests apart from Wagner or indeed "classical" music. One of the more "occult"ones is ...

The feature-length documentary will be available for free streaming on the Met website during the week leading up to the opening night ...

Difficult to say but he will be the featured soloist for an upcoming program in 2014 for the San Diego Symphony that includes Wagner, Viva...

Made available by the author: Excerpt from The Great Courses "The Music of Richard Wagner" Lecture 17 - The Ring Professor Rob...

William Scott (U. of Pittsburgh): "Unspeakable Songs: History and Sexuality in Tannhäuser"

  Mark Berry at Bayreuth You can continue to read Dr Berry's thoughts on Wagner and much else over at "The  Boulezian" ...

Apologies for the lateness in this. The video below is made available by the producers on their youtube page. Recommended.

 From a series of interviews with CNE's Brian McCreath Gatti On Wagner Gatti on Mahler

An interesting 8000 word essay - and accompanying 80 minute audio lecture - from Nicholas Spice published in this months London Review of Bo...

Kindly provided by Michael Amundsen at  Tallinn Arts ESTONIAN NATIONAL OPERA PREMIERE: TANNHAUSER–MARCH 14 Michael Amundsen It’s a big y...

Part of Wagner World Wide 2013. If you have not we really do recommend his "Wagner: Beyond Good And Evil"

  As we noted about a year ago, the ROH have finally confirmed dates and cast for this years new production of Parsifal  - in a 2013-14 ...

To celebrate Wagner 2013 LNOBT are staging a series of Wagner and Wagner related works over one week in April. Full details below inclu...

We received the following recently and thought it might be of interest. A book about and for Wagner lovers, for art lovers ...  actually ...

We wouldn't normally but he just looks so "annoyed" at something in this bust. Had Cosima burnt the dinner or something? Perha...

The house in which Wagner stayed and met his first wife, Minna Planer Bad-Lauchstädt, a small town in Saxony-Anhalt, was a place of insp...

If Opus Arte ever managed to get its website working (now down for about 6 months with  a simple place holder only)  we would provide you w...

THE deep E-flat that sounds the beginning of Der Ring des Nibelungen will be played in Melbourne in November not by Orchestra Victoria but...

The 2013-2014 season of Washington National Opera (WNO) has just been announced by Artistic Director Francesca Zambello. The season includ...

A review of the MET Parsifal f ro m the perspective of a second time audience member - and relative newcomer to opera: the Telegraph's S...

Update . Alas, we forgot that not all international readers can receive BBC Radio 3's on demand service. If that is you, this perf...

The MET has announced its 2013/2014 season and, we are pleased to say, the return of Levine. Alas however not one bit of Wagner is to be...

"Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is ...

Obituary from the Guardian below. Once described as "a sphinx in a tailcoat", the German conductor Wolfgang Sawallisch, who ha...

Wagner: Die Walküre Nina Stemme (Brünnhilde), René Pape (Wotan), Jonas Kaufmann (Siegmund), Anja Kampe (Sieglinde), Mikhail Petrenko (Hu...

Reviewed by Paul Kilbey at Bachtrack You have to sit in a small Fulham church, on a pretty uncomfortable chair, for at least four hou...