Richard Wagner News

Olga Makarina brings a strong voice and a spurned lover's anguish to Norma. Norma When: Tuesday, Nov. via Prague Post

“The repertoire we are performing is very serious. We hope the audience will hear this music as something akin to a movie thriller with a big climax”

The music of Richard Wagner has been described, discussed and debated in many different ways, but chances are not too many casual listeners have thought of his Isoldens Liebestof as a "musical display of ... via Boston NOW

“The issue may have to be solved biologically”

A bitter and invariably operatic feud that has divided the family of the German composer Richard Wagner for more than a decade neared its denouement yesterday when three female descendants of the maestro staked ... via The Independent

“The main purpose of this is to get people to come to the opera house itself”

Opera fans - and those just curious about opera - will have the opportunity to see, via simulcast, Canadian tenor Ben Heppner perform in Richard Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" on March 22. via Sacbee.com

Painstakingly forged over three years, the Royal Opera's new production of Richard Wagner's epic "Ring" cycle seemed in danger of shattering like Siegmund's sword when its star, Bryn Terfel, pulled out at the ... via NewsChannel 8

Opera singers navigating their way -- sometimes for five hours -- through Richard Wagner 's mammoth music dramas require the stamina to override the orchestra and yet engage in the orchestral texture itself. via The Washington Post

DE PERE - St. Norbert Community Band will present a concert of marches and serious band literature at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Walter Theatre of St. via WisInfo

“O Rest in the Lord from Elijah”

The University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Horn Choir will perform under the direction of Professor Patrick Miles Monday, Nov. via Stevens Point Journal

A Student Brass Quintet and Student Woodwind Quintet at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point will perform together on Friday, Nov. via Stevens Point Journal

A Vereinigte Buhnen Wien presentation of a musical in two acts with book and lyrics by Michaela Ronzoni and Christian Kolonovits, original music by Kolonovits, additional music by Josef Fiedler, Richard Wagner, ... via Variety

Hand-held cymbals. Click on the audio icon beneath the art to hear the sound of a ... Encyclopdia Britannica, Inc. via Encyclopaedia Britannica

“I had long pondered how it was possible that such gruesome despots like Hitler and Stalin could be such huge lovers of music”

An opera by Richard Wagner _ whose music and anti-Semitic writings influenced Adolf Hitler _ will be performed at an open-air theater built under the Nazis by an orchestra made up of Israeli and Arab musicians conducted by a Jew.

Daniel Barenboim told Germany's Die Zeit newspaper that the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra, which he co-founded, plans next year to perform the first act of Wagner's 'Die Walkuere' at Berlin's Waldbuehne _ an arena built by the Nazis as part of the complex for the 1936 Olympics. Read more

Bayreuth is a medium town in the south of Bavaria in Germany. Bayreuth is situated next to Nuremberg and in the north of the Bavaria's capital which is Munich. via TravelPod.com Recent Updates

“It has taken longer than we thought”

THE critically lauded $15 million Adelaide Ring cycle has been in mothballs for three years, but plans to restage the epic four-part opera moved forward yesterday. via The Australian

You might think of the music we've got here as another episode in the continuing saga of "The Lords of the Ring." Yes, that's "Lords of the Ring," not Lord of the Rings . via National Public Radio

“I'm glad to do an American composer. "I want to do as much American music as I can.”

BY RUTH RICE RRICE@TRIBDEM.COM Those who enjoy the symphony should get their passports ready for a new season. via The Tribune-Democrat

“Think of listening to Wagner for a whole fortnight with a woman who takes about as much interest in music as a tone-deaf newt...”

In a world of increasing specialization and minutiae, this blog is about everything that interests me. via Everything And Nothing

“But if you bring it back to Earth a little and try to impose realism, all of a sudden it's more interesting, more multidimensional.”

He is a sea captain doomed to sail until judgment day. She, perhaps the most purely altruistic character ever to walk the opera stage, is the only person who can redeem him from his curse. via Salt Lake Tribune

When superstar tenor Luciano Pavarotti died about a month ago, on Sept. 6 at age 71 of pancreatic cancer, most of the TV and radio accounts I heard and the newspapers obituaries I read credited Pavarotti with ... via Madison.com

“We play orchestral music at the Gewandhaus, we are the pit orchestra at the opera and we play at Bach's Thomaskirche. It is really three ensembles in one.”

It may be Roy Thomson Hall's silver anniversary year, but Torontonians are getting platinum talent to mark the occasion. via The Toronto Star