No. Before you ask, we have no idea why or what either The Royal Opera House will, once again, revive Keith Warner's, sometimes trou...

In 1987 John Cage commissioned Frank Scheffer to record Nikolaus Lehnhoff's Ring at the Bayerische Staatsoper. Of course, being both...

How times have changed! Some of us can recall having to wait years for tickets to Bayreuth - especially a Bayreuth Ring.  But that appears...

Some of us have been waiting, somewhat patiently, for news on the always erudite - and enjoyable to read - Alex Ross's planned book ...

Toscanini with Wieland Wagner David Denby, at the New Yorker, discusses and reevaluates Toscanini while simultaneously reviewing Harvey ...

Kent Nagano and  the Concerto Köln have begun a project to reproduce a "Historically Informed Performance" of the Ring during 20...

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 ...

An overview of Paul Heise's (creator of Wagnerheim )"obsession" with Wagner. Paul Heise's life is Richard Wagner. The An...

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- w...

Again, made freely avaible by Euroarts. One of our early Tristan's on the then newly emerging DVD format. This performance was rec...

Made available, freely, by Euroarts. It may help one take one's mind off of all sorts of insanities. This magnificent production o...

NRK KLASSISK Radio is rebroadcasting, the 2016 Bayreuth Parsifal today at 16.00 GMT . Full details below. To listen, simply click thi...

Colin Dexter: 29 September 1930 – 21 March 2017) As readers are surely aware, Colin Dexter, creator of probably one of this generation...

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 d...

But first listen to those involved in,  Opéra Monte-Carlo 's new production of Tannhauser,  discuss the production, the work itself ...

Many of the people involved in the Washington National Opera's production of the Ring say it was theirs. Well, at lest that their fi...

Not a real Tweet. Unsure what his thoughts on Wagner might be In this insightful essay, Richard Bammer finds reflections of todays po...

In an exciting last season as Dallas Symphony Orchestra's Music Director - to include Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Bruckner's...

Miami Wagner Institute Debut July 16th, 2016- New World Center Michael Rossi- Artistic Director Christine Goerke- Program ...

For Francis Philips, writing for the Catholic Herald, Simon Callow's new Wagner biography, raises - for most of us well visited -  argu...

Siegfried may not be the only one fighting dragons at the MET Lost amongest so much media coverage of Donald J Trump's administrati...

It's difficult to become fascinated with Wagner without becoming equally fascinated with racist, far right authoritarian leaders. Not ...

It seems that Micheal Tanner finds Simon Callow an even more unreliable Wagner Biographer than Wagner. He has a poor grasp of Schopenhauer...

Canadian Opera Company conductor Johannes Debus is frank about his relationship with the music of Richard Wagner. “I always tried to av...

Opera North. Filmed during live performances in 2016. Available from BBC 4. Unsure if you can watch this outside of the UK. If you ca...

There is, at the moment,  much talk of "walls" and segregation, enemies and"vetting", "the other", you/me, the...

Whether you have found this a good or bad year, we only hope that you take a rest, recover and have a much better year in 2017.