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The Flying Dutchman at Opera Holland Park review: ambitious and intense - 3/5 This retelling of Wagner’s fourth opera is ...
What do you do when you’ve done the Ring? Longborough Festival Opera has built a great reputation for its economical stagings ...
When it comes to Richard Wagner, one thing has long been clear: he wanted to be in control. The man who invented the idea of ...
Wagner, though, was an operatic revolutionary who reinterpreted the illustrious art form. Opera, he thought, should not be about superficial love stories but about large themes, such as the ...
The movie will chart the journey of Richard and Cosima Wagner as they arrive in Venice following the prèmiere of Parsifal in 1882. The plot will turn on an alternative history, as it will see ...
Cutting-edge technology has again come to the Bayreuth Festival, where Wagner premiered his final opera with the latest stagecraft in 1882. By Zachary Woolfe Zachary Woolfe attended this ...
Among the articles are: “Richard Wagner and Us”, “Richard Wagner and the Nineteenth Century”, “Richard Wagner the Prophet of the German Revolution”, “Richard Wagner and German ...
Kimberly Belflower, the writer of the Tony-nominated play “John Proctor Is the Villain,” starring Sadie Sink, admires doll houses and pays tribute to a childhood hero. “Mother, your hair ...
Yet with his Bayreuth Festival, Richard Wagner managed to create a mythic idea of himself that has obscured who he really was ...