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14 hrs ago | Examiner.com

The Met's 'Gotterdammerung' live in HD: A review

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

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Yesterday | Examiner.com

Gotterdammerung: the MET concludes its new production of the Ring Cycle

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera

Sat Feb 11, 2012

Daily Kos

SNLC, Vol. CCC / SN@TO 9: Gotterdammerung Edition

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.

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Related Topix: Opera

Fri Feb 10, 2012

Reading Eagle/Reading Times

Film review: Depression looks gorgeous in 'Melancholia'

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.

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Related Topix: Melancholia, Antichrist, Opera, Charlotte Gainsbourg

Thu Feb 09, 2012

PressConnects.com

St. Petersburg orchestra to bring rich program to Clemens Center

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.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Elmira, NY, Richard Wagner, Opera

Wed Feb 08, 2012

MLive.com

Metropolitan Opera brings 'Gotterdammerung' to movie theaters, live in HD on Saturday

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.

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The Wagnerian

Dallas Opera's Tristan no longer a concert version but now fully staged

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)

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Tue Feb 07, 2012

The Wagnerian

Walkure - Acts 2 and 3. Live 24 & 26 Feb 2012 - London

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)

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Related Topix: Opera, Italy, World News, Arts, Theater

BroadwayWorld.com

Met Maestro Fabio Luisi to Conduct 425, 52 Performances of la Traviata

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera

Alex Ross

Hitler's favorite opera?

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.

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Related Topix: Opera

Sun Feb 05, 2012

Cleveland.com

'Gotterdammerung' goes to the movies as part of 'The Met: Live in HD' series

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)

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Wedding, Cleveland, OH

Fri Feb 03, 2012

The Independent

Opera to mark Hitler's birthday met with chorus of disapproval

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.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Germany Travel, Berlin, Germany Travel, Travel, El Salvador Travel, Berlin, El Salvador Travel, Richard Wagner

The Florida Times-Union

Jacksonville Symphony announces 2012-13 schedule

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.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Classical, Benjamin Britten, Opera, Verdi, Entertainment

The Wagnerian

San Francisco Opera announce $1.8 Million deficit

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

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Classical, San Francisco, CA

Examiner.com

The Met's 'GA tterdA mmerung' - Live in HD, in San Francisco theaters, 2/11

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 .

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Related Topix: 9, Arts, Opera, San Francisco, CA, Richard Wagner

Thu Feb 02, 2012

Mountain Xpress

Asheville Symphony Orchestra performs Beethovena s Pastoral on Feb. 11

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

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Related Topix: Symphony, Opera

Wed Feb 01, 2012

BroadwayWorld.com

James Gaffigan To Make Atl Symphony Debut 223, 225

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.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Opera

The New York Observer

Dead Ringer: Robert Lepage's Gotterdammerung Leaves Something To...

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

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Mon Jan 30, 2012

FiveThirtyEight

ArtsBeat: New Jersey Symphony to Mark Jazz Age and Wagner Next Season

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.

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The Beaumont Enterprise

Rousing revival of Wagner's early 'Rienzi'

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.

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