"Mendelssohn, was a gentleman of refinement and high degree; a man of culture and polished manner; a courtier who was always at hom...

Contents: • 'Kundry’s Baptism, Kundry’s Death' by Christopher Wintle • 'Timely Timelessness: Regietheater at Bayreuth in...

Valery Gergiev - Going cheap? About a year ago, the Birmingham Hippodrome (UK) and the Mariinsky Opera announced that the Mariinsky Op...

Jean Delville, "Tristan et Iseut,   The View from the Rim: Tristan, the Grand Canyon, and the Beauty of the Abyss Presented by ...

"While Tommasini’s statement seems to neatly encapsulate the Ring cycle’s significance today, it also raises the question of why it app...

The Fatality of Romanticism vs. The Metaphysics of Sexual Love: Wagner's Love Letter to Schopenhauer and the Break-Up with Nietzsche....

Update: Sadly, it seems that Amazon has now "sold out" and are awaiting new stock. It has, however,  been bought to our attention ...

From those very kindle volunteers at LibriVox. The Case of Wagner / Nietzsche Contra Wagner / Selected Aphorisms

"Chère, I am sad! There is another reception this evening, but I shall not be going to it! I reread a few pages of my life which I ...

Tristan and Isolde lithograph by Milen Litchkov   Longborough return to Wagner after a, sort of, rest season, with a new production o...

Washington National Opera (WNO) today announced complete casting for its first full presentation of Richard Wagner's four-part Ring cy...

Sarcasm and satire - dangerous tools. Not for the power their use may have when used well (although this too has its dangers), but if they...

Wagner Composing The Ring of the Nibelungen: L. Balestrieri We have tried various methods of bringing a permanent Wagner music player to...

Expect a review in the next few months. Wagner’s Parsifal An Appreciation in the Light of His Theological Journey By Richard H. Bell ...

PARSIFAL: A DRAMA BY WAGNER RETOLD BY OLIVER HUCKEL Oliver Huckel's poetic rendition in English of the libretto of Richard Wag...

Previously available in other formats but now as an Epub or in Kindle format. Click the relevant link below to download - or read and se...

Confused? All will become clear tomorrow when we publish a recent conversation with the great Mr Weikl, Let us just say that for one of ...

Originally published: postgraduate journal of aesthetics . Vol 4 The Reinvention of Genius: Wagner's Transformation of Schopenhauer...

Carl Jung, began his career as a follower of Sigmund Freud. Eventually he felt that Freud's vision of the "unconscious" was ...

Was Sir Clive Sinclair A Wagner Fan? Those of you, yes we know there are one or two, who "wasted" their youth on a Game Boy -...

UPDATE: Sadly, it seems that this has now been deleted from Youtube. However, there is some good news. A number of kind readers have poin...

The WFMT Radio Network continues their 2014 American Opera Series with San Francisco Opera – eight operas from their past season and two ope...

On September 7 at 7:00 pm (CET), DW presents a live stream of the opening concert at this year's Beethovenfest . Andris Nelsons conducts...

Richard Wagner presents Lohengrin  3rd September 2014 to 5th September 2014. 18:30 to 20:00 Rhodes University. South Africa Jamie has n...

Text and request below is from the research team - not "The Wagnerian" Listening for Leitmotives in Wagner It's hard to he...

UPDATE HERE Bernd Weikl, yes the baritone well known for his Wagner roles, argues that Wagner's work not only should but must be bann...

Tolkien always vehemently denied any connection between his Lord of the Rings and Wagner's Ring Cycle. He once said: 'Both ring...

Malicious Dwarfs, Fair Nymphs, Heroic Gods. Application and Transformation of Germanic Mythology in Richard Wagner’s libretto The Rhinegold ...

The Case of Wagner Against the Grain: The Disagreement between Nietzsche and Adorno and its Relevance Today João Pedro Cachopo Published...

Should you have missed this year's Bayreuth radio broadcasts then never fear. A number of radio stations keep them in their archive...

  As always with Testament's Wagner releases shockingly overpriced -  some might argue. To be released on September 9, 2014. ...

Due October 2014. This book is both a telling of operatic histories 'after' Richard Wagner, and a philosophical reflection ...

The $20m Melbourne Ring swept the opera category awards at this years Helpmann Awards, including the best opera award. Warwick Fyfe pic...

This August's production of Richard Wagner's four-opera Ring cycle in Hartford, Conn., has been postponed. Rather than hiring pit ...

Meeting the great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner is an intimidating prospect. We don’t believe family traits are “in the blood” any more,...

Whose Head Is Being Called For? Unions respond to Gelbs's letter threatening a "lockout. Full response below. Metropolitan Op...