Richard Wagner News

Opera companies throughout the world are staging Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle this year to fete his 200th birthday on May 22, but Hungarian Jewish conductor Adam Fischer is having no part of it during his "Wagner Days" festival in June.

With today marking the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner's birth, Linda Cookson heads to Italy's Amalfi coast to visit the composer's favourite resort - still a celebrity hang-out today It's only the first night of my visit, and I'm beginning to wonder if I'm the only non-famous person to have stayed in this lovely southern Italian town.

Germany celebrated the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner, the 19th-century composer whose music has been hailed as sublime art at the height of Western culture even as he remains tainted by his visceral anti-Semitic views, which later found favor with the Nazis.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra completed its 2012-13 Princeton concert series in grand fashion on Friday night with a performance full of precision, operatic flair, and innovative musical composition.

Germany is celebrating the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner with the unveiling Wednesday of a monument in the composer's birthplace of Leipzig.

The musical world is coming together on Wednesday to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer Richard Wagner with a series of programmes and events.

The 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner's birth is May 22, and the world's opera houses and symphony halls are filled with his music this year along with the compositions of Giuseppe Verdi, whose 200th birthday is Oct.

How better to celebrate Wagner's bicentennial than with a Belgian-Norwegian rag mash-up of his most famous hits? Granted, there are more dignified ways to commemorate the birthday of the man whom Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam once called "a genius such as appears on the earth once every thousand years." You could delve into the sacred mists of ... (more)

Speight Jenkins And The Appeal Of Wagner May 22nd is the birthday of composer Richard Wagner.

The coming months will bring the 200th birthday of Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner and the 100th birthday of Benjamin Britten.

The first in a short series of posts commemorating Wagner's two-hundredth birthday, which falls on May 22nd.

Email: karent@thomas-pr.com Website: http://www.greatkat.com Music: http://www.greatkat.com/04/wagnerride.mp3 CELEBRATE WAGNER'S 200th BIRTHDAY with THE GREAT KAT GUITAR GODDESS! HAPPY 200th BIRTHDAY RICHARD WAGNER! Born on May 22, 1813 in Leipzig, Germany.

Actors playing a scene of the opera "Tannhaeuser" by German composer Richard Wagner at the Deutsche Oper am Rhen in Duesseldorf, western Germany.

FRANKFURT: The German theatre director whose controversial staging of a Richard Wagner opera to a Nazi-era theme was cancelled after the premiere hit back yesterday at what he saw as "censorship". "What happened in Duesseldorf is the censorship of art.

A Holocaust-themed opera was cancelled last week after its traumatic scenes caused a number of guests to seek medical help.

DIVERS have begun exploring a murky lake near Berlin in a bid to find a billion-pound fortune in gold looted during theSecond World War by Nazi Luftwaffe chief and Adolf Hitlerdeputy Hermann Goering.

Wagner's 200th birthday and rising nationalism . MAY 13, 2013 03:00. . It's your son's birthday but you cannot celebrate wholeheartedly.

Indianapolis Opera artist-in-residence Joachim Schamberger has created visual magic once again in " The Flying Dutchman ," which opened Friday and will be repeated Sunday, May 12 at 2 p.m. at Clowes Memorial Hall on the campus of Butler University.

Spirituality is the theme of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra's concerts Thursday and Friday, May 16 and 17, when the orchestra, with guest cellist Inbal Segev, delve into three very different perspectives of the nature of spirituality.

Dancing white lights created storms, while lights and shadows combined to create the ghost ship and red lights represented the dead crew.