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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...

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Wagner 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...

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Edinburgh 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 !...

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In 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...

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Waltraud Meier Honored in Vienna

by Larry L. Lash Tapped to receive the prestigious Lotte Lehmann Memorial Ring [...]

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The 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...

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Wozzeck

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...

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Nagano/Meier/OSM - review

Usher Hall, Edinburgh Festival programming sometimes allows us to hear different – and contrasting – performances of the same work. So it has been in Edinburgh with Mahler's Rückert Lieder, played...

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Concert: 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...

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Photos: 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...

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Deborah 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...

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The 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...

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Götterdämmerung, 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...

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La 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...

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Verdi 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...

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Wagner’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...

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100 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...

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Berlin 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...

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BBC 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...

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Un 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...

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