Richard Wagner News Archives

Stephen Gould in the role of Siegfried and Herwig Pecoraro as Mime, from left, perform during a dress rehearsal for the opera "Siegfried" by Richard Wagner, on Tuesday, April 22, 2008, at Vienna's state opera. via Athens Banner-Herald

“After two hours, I looked at my watch and found that 18 minutes had gone by”

View as a single page 5:00AM Saturday April 26, 2008 By Catherine Field Wolfgang Wagner with his wife Gudrun and their daughter Katharina. via The New Zealand Herald

"The king of instruments" is the superlative long applied to the organ, but the Mary L. Collins pipe organ at Portland's First United Methodist Church in Goose Hollow lays claim to a few more. via The Oregonian

Kanye West always has fancied himself a hero; now he has staged his "Gotterdammerung." The hip-hop star might or might not have been thinking about Richard Wagner's epic Ring cycle when he decided to turn his ... via CapeCodOnline.com

Kanye West always has fancied himself a hero; now he has staged his "Gotterdammerung." The hip-hop star might or might not have been thinking about Richard Wagner's epic Ring cycle when he decided to turn his ... via Nevada Appeal

With his mane of white hair, Wolfgang Wagner might pass for King Lear. Now, aged 88, the grandson of Richard Wagner is behaving like Lear too. via Guardian Unlimited

Bayreuth's hallowed Wagner Festival is set to pass into the hands of two women who are half-sisters. Germany's favorite real-life soap continued yesterday with the revelation that 88-year-old Wolfgang Wagner , ... via Bloomberg

“We don't want to offend Wagner lovers, certainly, but hopefully they understand we are trying to maximize attendance and ticket revenues at the Met.”

His music has been praised in the most extravagant terms: "He has his half hours." "It's better than it sounds." For fans of Richard Wagner , there is no better way to spend 15-16 hours than listening to his ... via ContractsProf Blog

“Some use visual arts in the beginning, some at the end, and some throughout. The visual art is used as another partner. You don't know what to expect”

Unlike anything previously seen in Israel, French Connection II offers its audiences an abstract form of dance. via Jerusalem Post

“Along with Bach's St Matthew Passion, it is one of the two greatest religious works of our culture.”

THE British music critic Michael Tanner, in his study of Richard Wagner, makes a startling claim for the composer's opera Tristan und Isolde. via The Australian

Ben Heppner in Tristan und Isolde at New York's Metropolitan Opera. Photograph: Seth Wenig/AP On the face of it, there couldn't be two more different theatre artists than Richard Wagner and Samuel Beckett. via MediaGuardian.co.uk

DE PERE - The St. Norbert Community Band will present its annual spring concert at 7:30 p.m. Monday in Walter Theatre at St. via WisInfo

Richard Wagner's "Goetterdaemmerung" and "Das Rheingold" are among the four new productions being staged by the Vienna State Opera for its coming season, ahead of a full staging of the German master's Ring ... via CBC News

WITH his four-part epic, Der Ring des Nibelungen, Richard Wagner effectively created the music festival. via The Austrailian

“There wasn't any time to get nervous”

Opera is a complex art form, involving singers, actors, sets, costume and lighting designers, stage directors, and an orchestra with conductor. via NPR