Tag: Richard Wagner
How did the premiere of “Parsifal” go in Nuremberg? – Munich
It would hardly have been surprising if at the beginning of the second act the title hero had galloped up to Klingsor’s magic castle without a horse but with a…
Wagner’s "Parsifal" in Dornach: Dance to the Heroes
The Anthroposophical Society stages Wagner’s stage festival play “Parsifal” in Dornach. With movement art, a star cast and a touch of mystery. source site
The exceptional singer Michael Spyres sings Richard Wagner – Culture for the first time
Outside the window, the tricolor is waving next to the obelisk. Inside the Strasbourg Opera House, an exuberantly cheerful Michael Spyres presents his new singer’s album “In the Shadows” (Erato).…
The opera world is crazy about director Tobias scratch. Why? – Bavaria
In the fall, Tobias scratch opens the new season of the Bavarian State Opera with Richard Wagner’s “Rheingold”; the new “Ring” belongs to him. Scratcher knew what he wanted to…
The Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth was Richard Wagner’s first own house – Bavaria
Down the stairs, behind the heavy door, there it glows, the Grail. Well, it’s not really that miraculous vessel that holds Christ’s blood that glows so mysteriously in the center…
The opera world is crazy about director Tobias scratch. Why? – Bavaria
In the fall, Tobias scratch opens the new season of the Bavarian State Opera with Richard Wagner’s “Rheingold”; the new “Ring” belongs to him. Scratcher knew what he wanted to…
Art theft on the Green Hill: "Citizens steal everything"
The conceptual artist Ottmar Hörl is used to his works being stolen. The total loss of 115 mini-Wagners on Bayreuth’s festival hill, the haven of middle-class decency? What does that…
Opera: dead pigeon
Romeo Castellucci continues the “Ring of the Nibelung” in Brussels and takes Richard Wagner’s mythical and tragic aspects seriously in a new way in “Walküre”. Then suddenly an animal dies.…
Singer Tristan Brusch: Crémant tipsy murder ballad uncle – culture
Tristan Brusch has been seen in more disguises than most others who call themselves pop stars in Germany. For example, as a lonely, love-struck bellboy who is bitten to death…
A documentation center on the history of Nazi ideology is being built in Bayreuth. – Bavaria
A British aristocrat, ardent Wagnerian and Richard Wagner’s son-in-law, is considered a pioneer of National Socialist racial theory. A documentation center is now to be built in his former home…