Showing posts with label Richard Wagner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Wagner. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Recordings Review: Shiver Me Timbers

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A Guide to The Flying Dutchman on disc. by  Paul J. Pelkonen The Flying Dutchman prepares to battle the Silver Surfer. Art by Jack ...
Monday, April 1, 2019

A Treasure Hidden in the Earth

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A fifth chapter of Wagner's Ring has been found...and authenticated. by Paul J. Pelkonen Siegfried battles Fafner in Arthur Rackha...
Wednesday, August 22, 2018

Stairwell to Heaven

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A case for the Siegfried Idyll as Wagner's best work. by Paul J. Pelkonen The house in Tribschen (Lucerne) Switzerland where Richa...
Sunday, April 30, 2017

Opera Review: When Her Ship Comes In

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The Met revives Der fliegende Holländer . by Paul J. Pelkonen I will leave you, loudly: Amber Wagner and Michael Volle in a scene from ...
Monday, July 25, 2016

The Wagner Project: Götterdämmerung

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The Ring comes full circle. by Paul J. Pelkonen Act II Scene II of Götterdämmerung as staged by the Mariinsky Theater. That's Hag...
Wednesday, July 13, 2016

Superconductor Audio Guide: Tristan und Isolde

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Love, death and infidelity, both on stage and in real life. by  Paul J. Pelkonen Promotional image for the 2015 production of Trista...
Saturday, July 9, 2016

The Wagner Project: Das Rheingold

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Wagner's first Ring opera has no pauses...and no humans! by Paul J. Pelkonen Underwater love: Alberich (Gunther von Kannen, center...
Saturday, September 5, 2015

DVD Review: Schwann vs. Schwann

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Two Bayreuth Lohengrins offer very different takes on Wagner's mythic opera. by Paul J. Pelkonen Cheryl Studer, Manfred Schenk...
Saturday, August 29, 2015

Film Review: Just Don't Lend Him Money

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Sir Richard Burton as Richard Wagner . by Paul J. Pelkonen Obsessive genius: Sir Richard Burton as Richard Wagner in Wagner. Image © 1...
Friday, August 28, 2015

Recording Recommendation: The Shoe-String Ring

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Valhalla on just $1.50 a day. by Paul J. Pelkonen The original cover of  Die Walküre . Clearly not marketing the music. All Pho...
Thursday, May 22, 2014

How My Collection Started

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A Reflection, on Wagner's Birthday. by Paul J. Pelkonen The Parsifal that started it all. Inset photograph © 1985 Bayreuth Festspi...
Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Recordings Review: The Best of Both Worlds

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Marek Janowski's new Tannhäuser splits the difference.  by Paul J. Pelkonen Venus (center) and Tannhäuser in Lawrence Koe's 18...
Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Who Wants to Be a Wagnerite?

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or... Happy Birthday, Richard Wagner! by Paul J. Pelkonen Ernestine Schumann-Heink as Waltraute in  Götterdämmerung. Original photogr...
Sunday, April 21, 2013

Metropolitan Opera Preview: Götterdämmerung

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The last chapter of Wagner's Ring  returns for another burn. by Paul J. Pelkonen The Gibichung Hall in Act II of the Met's...
Friday, July 27, 2012

A Milestone Reached

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Half a Million Readers Can't be Wrong! by Paul J. Pelkonen Richard Wagner, grown taller and rocking the gold lamé suit.  Someti...
Thursday, May 31, 2012

DVD Review: Queen Takes Knight

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Nina Stemme in the Glyndebourne Tristan und Isolde. by Paul Pelkonen First-date jitters: Isolde (Nina Stemme) confronts Tristan (Robert...
Wednesday, May 23, 2012

DVD Review: Minstrel in the Gallery

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A Tannhäuser from Barcelona embraces the art world. by Paul Pelkonen Once upon a mattress: Tannhäuser (Peter Seiffert. left) confront...
Friday, April 27, 2012

DVD Review: The Vault of Heaven

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The Barenboim Parsifal  finally arrives on DVD. by Paul Pelkonen Femme fatale: Waltraud Meier casts a spell as Kundry in Act II of Pa...
Thursday, April 19, 2012

Concert Review: Choose Your Mountain

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The Juilliard Orchestra tackles the Alpine Symphony. by  Paul Pelkonen "Spock, you didn't tell me there were two Alpine...
Monday, April 9, 2012

Recordings Review: I Pity the Fool

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Marek Janowski's 2011 Berlin Parsifal . by Paul J. Pelkonen Parsifal and Kundry as painted by Rogellio de Egusquiza. This is a...