Pierre Boulez and the Berliner Philharmoniker rehearsing and performing Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra The conductor Pierre Boulez...

It was an ambitious project: staging Richard Wagner's powerful music drama, the Ring Cycle, in a single day. To honor Richard Wagner...

A new production of the The Flying Dutchman, to premiere during the 2021 season, will be directed Russian director Dmitri Tcherniakov and co...

At least we hope it will. Will include sections outdoors this year. You will have a very short window to buy, we suspect very limited ticket...

We really can recommend all of this series from  David Salazar . We have included the full short film below. Yukio Mishima’s “Patriotism” is...

We enjoyed this. Suggested. Opera Meets Film” is a feature dedicated to exploring the way that opera has been employed in cinema. We will se...

 We didn't choose the title, indeed edited it. Ignore some of the inanities of the introduction then read Alex Ross attempt to bring som...

There are, as many interpretations of the Ring as there are CDs. Tom Service thinks that at least he knows what it's not about - maybe: ...

It's not that often Rolling Stone Magazine features Richard Wagner, but I think we can never recall it featuring a book about Wagner in ...

In 1883, the year of Richard Wagner’s death, the theatre critic William Archer noticed a red-haired, bearded youth who was sitting day after...

We recommended this audio exploration of the Ring on release in 2013 - and we still do, although it's still not always easy to get outsi...

From Michigan Opera: an overview of Wagner, his work and times. MOT at Home is supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities

Written By: Peter Isackson According to Alex Ross in his book, “Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music,” Richard Wagner was more...

Grace Bumbry as Venus in Wagner's "Tannhäuser" Originally published in German Studies Review, 2012. Written by Kira Thurman , ...

  A brief, potted, biography of Wagner and his work from Biographics.  Richard Wagner: A Controversial Titan of Classical Music

Stephen Fry joins the Royal Philharmonic Society for a very special conversation – with the author and music critic for The New Yorker, Alex...

In his first book, Alex Ross introduced more people to "modern" classical music then NPR and the BBC had managed to do in both org...

It has been a few years since two books about Wagner and his work have been published in the same month, it has been even longer since both ...

Join us over at Twitch for video "watch party" of act one of Walkure. Meet some new friends, chat with some old ones and most ...

Unable to perform live while the country is in COVID-19 lock-down, Opera Australia has created another way to share their performances wit...

Bayreuth, as you know is cancelled, as are all other performances. The world is in a temporary turmoil. People are locked in or if they go...

We know that things are, to put it mildly, difficult for so many of you at the moment; for both those unable to leave home and those hav...

This is excellent! And should you enjoy it, and you can, please give to  https://artistrelieftree.com/ . The gods need you! Jamie Ba...

From the festival: In view of the effects of the Corona crisis on the operations of the Bayreuth Festival GmbH, the management and the sha...

Perhaps it should come as little surprise but Bayreuth continues to review this year's festival in light of COVID-19. With this in min...

We are aware that a lot of our readers use Spotify (many other - even better - classical music services are available, but that is for ano...

Just wonderful. Comic Strip art by William Elliott. Originally published at the now long gone,  sinfinimusic.com - at least the comic st...

Its that time of year again and we wanted to say we have, once again, enjoyed your company, whether as emails, twitter, facebook comme...

Heroic Voices Wagner, Strauss and the rise of dramatic song Laure Meloy  dramatic soprano Lee David Bowen  heldentenor Kelv...

Rising heldentenor Lee David Bowen, and dramatic soprano Laure Meloy join Wagnerian specialist repetiteur Kelvin Lim in a programme explorin...

Ok, it's only loosely connected to Wagner, but a fascinating article, about a fascinating exhibition, of a fascinating subject with w...

A fascinating resource, audio lecture and article series by Professor Richard Bell. Richard is investigating Wagner's theological, eth...

Not too sure who but we would be interested in this but we thought you might be too.  The description below is from the publisher. This ex...

Always exciting. Of particular attention, I feel, is the article ‘Knappertsbusch in Bayreuth’, which reveals the full story of the maestro...

Not safe to be played at work - most likely. This is going to upset people. And perhaps only in German popular culture would it have rele...

Image: François Lopinot / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA From The Boston Musical Intelligizer. Written by Ralph Locke In 1860, Richard ...