After four years of individual performances of each part of Der Ring des Nibelungen in concert - although semi-staged - ON have now an...

This year,  during February and March, will see the London premiere of Richard Jones’s acclaimed staging of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg....

Queen City Chamber Opera , in collaboration with the Wagner Society of Cincinnati, continue to produce their Ring cycle - albeit one ac...

The following is the introduction - especially adapted by the author -  to Paul Dawson-Bowling's two volume introduction and anal...

Uwe Eric Laufenberg -sans mother or swastikas After  Jonathan Meese's less than graceful exit from Bayreuth's 2016 Parsifal, ...

While a typically pedestrian interview in someways - but one has to consider its audience and the journalists need to write for that au...

Düsseldorf Deutsche Oper am Rhein's Tannhauser. An interesting discussion from Jessica Duchen which asks "Should an opera prod...

 Kearley, Sayers, Pountney,  Lecca, and Matthew Rees With the sad and untimely death of Johan Engels, the remaining  team behind  Lyric ...

We have had many guest authors here over the years but surely none can be as special  as that of Dame Gwyneth Jones . In this review, Dam...

Just goes to prove there is no award Wagner cannot win. At the World Coin News’ Coin of the Year Award an international panel of judges ...

Update: Due to a technical error (well, to be honest we thought we had closed the voting but we had not) we are keeping the polls open ti...

  Opera in Depth with David Nice: Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Frontline Club 12 January – 16 March 2015 14.30...

Johnathan Meese clearing out his desk at Bayreuth? Jonathan Meese has been a controversial figure from the moment he signed a contract w...

  The following, free, event at the Birmingham Hippodrome looks very interesting, We will be there. Details from the organizers below: ...

One sometimes feels that no one has the measure of Nietzsche like Will Durant:   "Nietzsche was the child of Darwin and the bro...

"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...