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Book Review: Wagner and the Avant-Garde
25 Jun 2025 17:37 GMT
… upon sentiment – and sensual Wagner is stormy sentiment embodied. … explained away merely as Wagner-adjacent. Sadly, an … Wagner’s music, especially evident in his lithographs of Brünnhilde and Parsifal … modernists. Their association with Wagner also seems to be …
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Martin Rajna Named Co-Artistic Director of Wagner Days Festival at Müpa Budapest
25 Jun 2025 07:11 GMT
… , alongside Adam Fischer, of the Wagner Days festival at Müpa Budapest … 20th anniversary of the Budapest Wagner Days festival and the 150th … Ring cycle, two performances of “Parsifal,” and a song recital by …
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Summer, music, gods and heroes – Sofia Opera invites its fans to the traditional Wagner Festival
21 Jun 2025 08:12 GMT
… the new edition of the Wagner Festival, Acad. Plamen Kartalov – … the contrary, we proved that Wagner fixes the voices, which … with his brilliant productions of Parsifal, Yana's Nine … on June 26, the Wagner Festival will continue with performances …
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Budapest Wagner Days Festival 2026 Appoints Co-Artistic Director
21 Jun 2025 05:17 GMT
… the works of Richard Wagner, Budapest Wagner Days has appointed … for Fischer for Budapest Wagner Days since 2023.
Currently … and two performances of Wagner’s Parsifal, which had opened the … inaugural Budapest Wagner Days in …
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Summer opera festivals have gone Wagner mad
12 Jun 2025 03:59 GMT
… We’ve got Parsifal at Glyndebourne (its third Wagner staging), a chamber … of London Sinfonia went at Wagner’s (moderately reduced) score … the orchestral postlude that Wagner added in a later … . Possibly it’s authentic – Wagner tinkered with The Flying Dutchman …
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Wahnfried: The Birth of the Wagner Cult review – Longborough Festival Opera’s 2025 ...
31 May 2025 07:28 GMT
… . He essentially promises to elevate Wagner once more, although Chamberlain is … his idol is completely conscious. Wagner’s revolutionary attitudes and activities … the music is also fascinating. Parsifal offers the various characters redemption …
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Michael Weinius, Martina Dike, & Nicholas Brownlee Star in ‘Parsifal’ at Cēsis Art Festival
29 May 2025 14:44 GMT
… a concert production of Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal.”
Tenor Michael Weinius takes …
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Sincere, serious and beautiful: Glyndebourne’s Parsifal reviewed
29 May 2025 00:40 GMT
… Gurnemanz in Act One of Parsifal, and true enough, the … end of the new Glyndebourne Parsifal is in its beginning. We … whatever ‘present’ means in Monsalvat. Wagner, after all, makes it clear … characters. The deliberate pace of Wagner’s score allows the visual …
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Wahnfried review – madness, monstrousness and a mischievous Wagner daemon
28 May 2025 16:56 GMT
… opera was first mooted, Wagner’s great-granddaughter Eva … its references – Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Wagner himself – is incisive, with … the Bayreuth premiere of Parsifal, the opera that became … , Goethe and Wagner himself, will – like all Wagner’s heroes – …
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Wahnfried — the Wagner family feud in a Succession-style drama
28 May 2025 14:22 GMT
… his legacy — and the Wagner-Daemon, performed with wonderful … wife, Anna, Chamberlain marries Wagner’s daughter Eva (both … Chamberlain, the widowed Cosima Wagner (a formidable Susan Bullock) … of Parsifal. Does Dorman answer the questions about Wagner and …