Wagner News

Self-immolation holds a horrifying yet compelling fascination for millennials and baby boomers alike.

Yesterday the Metropolitan Opera broadcasted the final segment of their new production of Wagner's Ring Cycle, Gtterdmmerung , via Fathom Event's MET Live in HD Series.

Continuing the occasional mash-up of SNLC with Demi Moaned's occasional opera series, 3CM starts with the usual question, changing just the title of the opera: Given that the show ran 5 hours, 50 minutes, with the intermissions, obviously this is one for the diehards.

Depression finally seems to have brought out the best in Lars von Trier: "Melancholia" is his strongest work in a while, a devastatingly beautiful, operatic mixture of all his signature themes and visual schemes.

The Tschaikowski St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of music director and chief conductor Roman Leontiev, will perform in concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb.

The Metropolitan Opera's new production of " Gotterdammerung ," the final opera in Richard Wagner's cycle "Der Ring des Nibelungen," will air in movie theaters across the country on Saturday.

Need to be elsewhere and thus don't have much time but to say, that Dallas Operas concert version of Tristan und Isolde is now a fully staged version! The following interesting explanation is taken from Theater Jones : It is no secret that the Dallas Opera had cut back on the current season in an attempt to put the company on a sound financial ... (more)

Katharina Wagner discuses: falling ticket demand, criminal investigations, loss of main sponser and a live Parsifal 2012 in a cinema near you - unless you live in the USA In a rare interview with Welt Online Katharina Wagner discuses troubling times at Bayreuth and the announcement of a live cinema broadcast o... "Anyone know the name of a cheap ... (more)

The Metropolitan Opera's Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on tap to conduct this season's April 25 and May 2 performances of Verdi's LA TRAVIATA.

Various media outlets are making much of a story about the Deutsche Oper being forced to reschedule a gala performance of Wagner's Rienzi that would have coincided with Hitler's birthday.

The nefarious Hagen addresses the Gibichung vassals in Act II of the new Metropolitan Opera production of Wagner's "Gotterdammerung." Hagen, the illegitimate son of the dwarf Alberich and Queen Grimhilde, tells the vassals of the impending marriage of Gunther, his half-brother, and Brunnhilde, who's lured into unwanted matrimony after her lover, ... (more)

It's been a notable week for the loss of titles: first Fred Goodwin, formerly a knight of the realm,... Berlin's biggest opera house, the Deutsche Oper, has been forced to backtrack on plans to stage a re-launched version of Adolf Hitler's favourite Wagner opera on the Nazi leader's birthday.

Although maestro Fabio Mechetti will remain with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra for part of the 2013-14 season, next season will be the last season for which he is fully engaged in planning and conducting.

It is without doubt a difficult time for the arts - as it is for many parts of society.

On Saturday, February 11th, beginning at 9:00 am, the Metropolitan Opera's production of Richard Wagner's Gtterdmmerung will be screened live in HD at the Cinearts Empire 3 and Century 9 . Robert Lepage's technologically advanced new staging of Wagner's Ring cycle comes to an epic climax with Gtterdmmerung .

On Saturday, Feb. 11, the 51st season of the Asheville Symphony Orchestra continues with a performance of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony.

Guest conductor James Gaffigan will make his Atlanta Symphony Orchestra debut February 23 and 25, 2012, at 8:00 p.m., leading the Orchestra in a program featuring the Atlanta Symphony premieres of Haydn's Overture to L'Isola disabitata, and Thomas Ads's violin concerto, Concentric Paths, featuring violinist Leila Josefowicz.

Deborah Voigt as BrA1 4nnhilde and Jay Hunter Morris as Siegfried in Wagner's "GA tterdA mmerung." Photo by Ken Howard.

Jazz Age American music and a celebration of the 200th anniversary of Wagner's birth will be among the highlights of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra's 2012-13 season.

One of his most popular works during the composer's lifetime, Wagner's early opera "Rienzi" still has the power to ignite strong feelings today.