Wagner Parsifal Lehnhoff DVD
Nicholas Lenhoff's 2004 staging of Wagner Parsifal from Baden Baden comes to the ENO tonight. It's generally a respected production although there will always be those who feel threatened by anything...
View ArticleWagner Parsifal ENO Tomlinson review
Wagner's Parsifal returned to the ENO last night. It's the hallowed Nikolas Lenhoioff production first seen at the ENO in 1999, commemorated in the 2005 DVD from Baden Baden (see more here ) It's...
View ArticleEdinburgh Festival 2011 "turning Japanese"
Will the Edinburgh Festival outshine the BBC Proms this year ? Serious competition, even though lots of Edinburgh will be broadcast by BBC Radio 3 so no-one need miss out. Big international bands !...
View ArticleIn The Wings - April '11
From Lemi Ponifasio's The Tempest: Without a Body Photo: Lemi Ponifasio Spring has arrived and April is promising some excellent performances around Los Angeles. Perhaps the best place to begin is with...
View ArticleWaltraud Meier Honored in Vienna
by Larry L. Lash Tapped to receive the prestigious Lotte Lehmann Memorial Ring [...]
View ArticleThe Last Days of Disco
Alan Held and Waltraud Meier Photo: Cory Weaver/Met Opera 2011 Second Viennese School operas are getting a lot of play in New York this month with Alban Berg’s Wozzeck now onstage at The Metropolitan...
View ArticleWozzeck
The Metropolitan Opera continues Saturday on Classical 90.5 with Alban Berg’s Wozzeck . Wozzeck, which premiered in Berlin in 1925, is based on a play by Georg Buechner written nearly a century...
View ArticleConcert: Mahler’s 2nd Symphony in Munich
On the coming Monday and Tuesday (9 and 10 January 2012) Dorothea Röschmann will be performing Mahler’s 2nd Symphony at 3 Akademiekonzert at Bayerische Staatsoper with mezzosoprano Waltraud Meier...
View ArticlePhotos: 3 AKADEMIEKONZERT Bayerische Staatsoper January 2012
Here are a few photos from the Mahler 2nd Symphony concert yesterday (Monday 09.01 2012): Conductor: Dan Ettinger Soprano Dorothea Röschmann Mezzosoprano Waltraud Meier The photos come from the...
View ArticleDeborah Voigt's Acclaimed Brünnhilde Returns to the Met for Götterdämmerung,...
" Style, gutsiness and passion " – New York Daily News on Voigt's Brünnhilde Reigning American dramatic soprano Deborah Voigt once again brings Wagner's warrior-goddess Brünnhilde alive at the...
View ArticleThe MET: Live in HD presents GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG, The Final Opera is Wagner's...
THE MET: LIVE IN HD GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG Running time: Approximately six hours, including two intermissions Host: Patricia Racette For more information: metopera.org/hdlive Robert Lepage’s technologically...
View ArticleGötterdämmerung, Met Opera Live, 11 February 2012
Metropolitan Opera, New York: HD Live, viewed at BFI IMAX Brünnhilde – Deborah Voigt Gutrune – Wendy Bryn Harmer Waltraute – Waltraud Meier Siegfried – Jay Hunter Morris Gunther – Iain Paterson...
View ArticleLa Scala 2013 Ring Cycle booking opens
Many thanks to reader Vecchio John for pointing out that booking opened this morning for La Scala's June 2013 Ring cycle . There are two cycles, beginning 17 June and 24 June. Tickets range from €435...
View ArticleVerdi and more…
Chicago Symphony: Choral Works by Beethoven, Brahms & Verdi Daniel Barenboim was named music director designate of the CSO in January 1989, and he assumed leadership as the Orchestra’s ninth music...
View ArticleWagner’s Complete Ring Cycle Comes to Movie Theaters For the First Time, in...
Screenings of all four operas in Wagner’s epic begin May 9 in the U.S. and Canada The Metropolitan Opera will present worldwide movie theater screenings of Robert Lepage’s new production of Wagner’s...
View Article100 years of the Théâtre des Champs Elysées
TCE will celebrate its 100th anniversary next year, and the expectations for the season 2012-2013 were very high. They unveiled their program last night that you can browse on this link which in...
View ArticleBerlin Staatsoper 2013 Ring Cycle now booking
Orders opened today for next year's Berlin Staatsoper Ring cycles, and also their 2013 Easter Festival, or Festtage . The Guy Cassiers production is conducted by Daniel Barenboim, and thanks to the...
View ArticleBBC Proms 2012 announced - July
Like it or not, the BBC Proms 2012 will clash with the London Olympics.Nearly every city that's hosted the Olympics goes heavily into debt, but what do commissioning governments care? They last only a...
View ArticleUn Parsifal (& Kundry) esencial en DVD
Si en la década del 50 Martha Mödl fue sinónimo de “Kundry” con excepción de Régine Crespin a principios de los sesenta); desde su debut en 1983, su colega alemana Waltraud Meier ha pasado a ser la...
View ArticleWar Horse
Eva-Maria Westbroek and Bryan Hymel Photo: Bill Cooper/ROH 2012 When the curtain rises on David McVicar’s new production of Berlioz’ masterpiece Les Troyens , promoted as a highlight of the Royal Opera...
View ArticleBBC Proms Live Olympic Special
Live from Royal Albert Hall, Daniel Barenboim conducts Beethoven’s “Choral” Symphony No. 9, with soloists Anna Samuil, Waltraud Meier, Peter Seiffert, and René Pape. Friday, July 27th from 1 to 3 pm.
View ArticleLive from London: Beethoven’s 9th
The world is turning to London this month as the 2012 Olympic Games kick off, and you’re invited to join us on WCNY-FM on Friday, July 27th from 1 to 3 P.M. Timed to end exactly one minute before the...
View ArticleProm 18 - WEDO/Barenboim: Beethoven, Symphony no.9, 27 July 2012
Royal Albert Hall Beethoven – Symphony no.9 in D minor, op.125 Anna Samuil (soprano) Waltraud Meier (mezzo-soprano) Michael König (tenor) René Pape (bass) National Youth Choir of Great Britain...
View ArticleNEW La Scala Milan Die Walküre Barenboim
NEW IMPROVED and formal review of Wagner Die Walküre at La Scala Milan, with photos. Interesting because it's mega high profile (at least in Italy), Barenboim made a big speech and the cast is as...
View ArticleEmbellish Your Winter Evenings
Here is what you can see/listen for free and heat up these last 10 days of December 2010: Le Nozze di Figaro from the Paris Opera: Full video is available on medici.tv, i.e. on this link . Details:...
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