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8pm Mon 6 July, Sky Arts 2

Composer Richard Wagner Musical director Philippe Jordan Tannhauser Robert Gambill Elisabeth Camilla Nylund Venus Waltraud Meier Landgraf Stephen Milling Wolfram von Eschenbach Roman Trekel Stage director Nikolaus Lehnhoff Sets Raimund Bauer Costumes Andrea Schmidt-Futterer Choir Festspielhaus-Chor Baden-Baden Orchestra Deutsches ...

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Tue Jul 07, 2009

Science Daily

Composer Richard Wagner's 'Difficult' Reputation Unwarranted, Says Research

A new study published in the Journal of the Acoustic Society of America reveals that Wagner set his text to music in a way that uses the acoustics of the soprano voice in a manner that helps both performers and listeners.

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Related Topix: Opera, Australia, World News, Arts

Sun Jul 05, 2009

New Times SLO

Seeing music

More than 20 years ago, Los Osos painter David Kreitzer made a huge splash with his image for the Seattle Opera's production of Tristan und Isolde.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Los Osos, CA, Wagner, Painting

Fri Jul 03, 2009

The Independent

Israeli orchestra to perform work by Hitler's favourite composer

Those in favour say the man should be separated from his music. The man is Richard Wagner, Hitler's favourite composer, whose anti-Semitic writings inspired the Nazis.

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Related Topix: Opera, Symphony, Arts

Wed Jul 01, 2009

PhysOrg Weblog

Wagner's 'difficult' reputation unwarranted says research

The composer Richard Wagner is well-known, even notorious, for writing operas that can challenge both performers and listeners.

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Related Topix: Opera, Australia, World News,

Tue Jun 30, 2009

ETaiwanNews.com

Carmen brings NSO into new era of full productions

Pictured are Kirsten Chavez in the title role and Michael Todd Simpson as Escamilla.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Wagner, Classical, National Symphony Orchestra, Symphony, Highland Park, IL

Sun Jun 28, 2009

XtraMSN Real Estate

Hungary's hot "Ring" lures Wagnerites

Life is full of choices, few starker than this: On a sunny June day would you rather stroll along the Danube River or sit for five hours in a darkened hall listening to a very large soprano belt out Wagner? For Harald Blumauer, 66, a retired executive of Volvo trucks from Vienna, Austria, and tens of thousands of people around the world just like ...

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Related Topix: World News, Austria, Arts, Opera, Hungary, Theater, Germany

Tue Jun 23, 2009

This is London

Meet Valery Gergiev - the total conductor

London, Meet Valery Gergiev - the total conductor Add your view Set to dazzle: 'London will see what other cities didn't see,' says.

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Related Topix: World News, Russia, Asia, Opera, New York, Arts

Dear Kitty. Some blog

The Wagner dynasty and Hitler

As a homosexual with a Jewish wife in Nazi Germany, he would have faced deportation.

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Sun Jun 21, 2009

Guardian Unlimited

Wagner's heir vows to lay bare her family's Nazi history

The great-granddaughter of Hitler's favourite composer plans to expose how the Bayreuth Festival became connected with the Third Reich The great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, Hitler's favourite composer, has vowed to investigate her family's links with the Nazis in a move that could be bitterly opposed by other members of the dynasty.

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Related Topix: Opera, Arts

Mon Jun 15, 2009

Town Hall

Today in History - June 10

Today is Wednesday, June 10, the 161st day of 2009. There are 204 days left in the year.

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Related Topix: Cleveland Metro, Akron Metro, Akron, OH, Opera, Wagner

Sat Jun 13, 2009

TheNational

Cosi fan Kiarostami

Fiona Murphy as Korabella and Susan Gritton as Fiordiligl in the Kiarostami-directed version of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Travel, Iran Travel, Wagner

Thu Jun 11, 2009

Gulf Times

German conductor to attend Doha concert

The Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra will perform the next concert on June 13 at 7.30pm at the Aspire Hall in the Aspire Zone, with Karl-Heinz Steffens from Germany as the guest conductor.

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Related Topix: World News, Qatar, Middle East, Classical, Berlin Philharmonic, Arts, Opera, Wagner

Tue Jun 09, 2009

Huliq.com

Glyndebourne Opera Plays 'Tristan Und Isolde'

Glyndebourne Opera, UK will play Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner, supported by a syndicate of individuals, sung in German with English supertitles.

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Sun Jun 07, 2009

KUOW-FM Seattle

The reality video kicks off Seattle Opera's initiative to develop new audiences.

You've heard of reality TV. Now, get ready for reality opera. This spring, Seattle Opera launched a search for the perfect person to host a behindthescenes look at Richard Wagner's epic "Ring Cycle." The Opera announces the winner of the contest tomorrow, June 6. Kelsey Hancock and her friends teeter into McCaw Hall on sparkly high heeled sandals.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Seattle, WA, Pacific University, Seattle Pacific University

Fri Jun 05, 2009

Gramophone

Opera replaces arias with aromas

In his concept of Gesamtkunstwerk - total artwork - Richard Wagner left out the senses of taste, touch and smell.

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Tue Jun 02, 2009

Noozhawk

University Symphony Plays the Romantic Card

The accent will definitely be on the romantic at 8 p.m. Wednesday in UCSB's Lotte Lehman Concert Hall, when Richard Rintoul leads the University Symphony in its final concert of the 2008-09 academic year.

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Related Topix: Symphony, Arts, Opera, California

Sun May 24, 2009

The Lantern

Documentary features Ohio cartoonist Russell

Famed Ohio cartoonist Philip Craig Russell visited Ohio State May 12 as the subject of a new documentary highlighting his illustrious career.

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Related Topix: Wellsville, OH, Opera, Arts

Fri May 22, 2009

Ledger Dispatch

Classical Music: Runnicles to roar out of S.F. Opera with Verdi's mighty Requiem

WHAT A WAY to go! I can think of few more dramatic, soul-stirring ways to mark one's departure from one place to another, than with a performance of the monumental Requiem Mass by Giuseppe Verdi.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Classical, Giuseppe Verdi, Symphony, Wagner, Music, Entertainment

Wed May 20, 2009

Nuvo.net

Indianapolis Opera and the ISO 'Das Rheingold' performance review

It's been exactly 30 years since the last and only other time Indianapolis Opera and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra joined their programming series to produce an opera with an ISO music director on the podium.

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Related Topix: Arts, Opera, Indianapolis, IN, Indianapolis Metro, Symphony, Wagner

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