Richard Wagner

How 'The Ring' Was Staged

The Huffington Post | Amy Lee | Posted 04.04.2012

Read More: Metropolitan Opera, Die Walkure, The Ring Cycle, Deborah Voigt, Opera, Susan Froemke, Met Opera Ring Cycle, Metropolitan Opera Ring Cycle, Richard Wagner Ring Cycle, Video, Gotterdammerung, Das Rheingold, Peter Gelb, Wagner Ring Cycle, Richard Wagner, Wagner's Dream, Met Opera, Robert Lepage, Siegfried, Culture News

When Richard Wagner wrote his Ring Cycle, did he dream of a giant steel machine twisting and sliding on stage? Probably not. But the Metropolitan O...

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The Spa Who Loved Me

Susan Michals | Posted 05.20.2012

Read More: Dr. Stossier, Twitter, Elizabeth Hurley, The Sound of Music, David Cameron, Viva Mayr, Monte Carlo, Austria, Richard Wagner, Travel, Travel News
Susan Michals

The big draw here is "The Cure."

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New Archive Gives Insight Into Hitler's Taste In Art

ARTINFO | Posted 01.29.2012

Read More: Art, Adolf Hitler, Hitler, Nazis, Artinfo, German Art History, World War 2, Art History, Hitler Art, Nazi Party, Richard Wagner, Wagner, Nazi Germany Art, Fuhrer, Arts News
ARTINFO

Richard Wagner was his favorite composer and Arno Breker his official house sculptor -- but Adolf Hitler's taste in art was surprisingly broad -- and gaudy -- judging by a vast archive of some 11,000 Nazi-era exhibition installation photos now published online for the first time.

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Christopher Walken Reacts To Natalie Wood Investigation

TMZ | Posted 01.22.2012

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Christopher Walken says he just doesn't know why cops have reopened the Natalie Wood case ... but judging by his response, it seems like he's not sayi...

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The Art of Criticism in the Technological Age -- Pros and Cons of Our Times

Melody Breyer-Grell | Posted 12.27.2011

Read More: Cabaret, Verdi, George Bernard Shaw, John Belushi, Opera, Richard Wagner, Nabucco, Arts News
Melody Breyer-Grell

Why is arts criticism important? In a perfect situation, criticism would serve at least three-fold. Worthy artists would receive recognition, audience...

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Wagner, Walton and an English Country Lad

Howard Kissel | Posted 11.18.2011

Read More: New York Philharmonic, Christopher Plummer, Shakespeare, Henry V, Richard Wagner, Arts News
Howard Kissel

Saturday night the New York Philharmonic performed the work of three great musicians -- fabulously.

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Israeli Orchestra Breaks Taboo By Performing Wagner In Germany

Posted 09.26.2011

Read More: Video, Wagner Anti Semitism, Nazi Germany, Richard Wagner, Israel Wagner, Adolf Hitler, Israel Anti Semitism, Daniel Barenboim, Israel, Israel-Philharmonic, Israel Chamber Orchestra, World News

An annual month-long German celebration of composer Richard Wagner took a surprising turn this year by welcoming an Israeli ensemble for the first tim...

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Orchestra Breaks Wagner Taboo In Germany

AP | JUERGEN BAETZ | Posted 09.25.2011

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BERLIN — An Israeli orchestra on Tuesday broke a taboo as it played the music of Adolf Hitler's favorite composer, Richard Wagner, in Germany. ...

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Israeli Orchestra To Break Wagner Taboo In Germany

AP | JUERGEN BAETZ | Posted 09.24.2011

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BERLIN — An Israeli orchestra is set to perform a work by Adolf Hitler's favorite composer, Richard Wagner, in a taboo-breaking concert in Germa...

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San Francisco Opera Triumphs With the Fastest RING in the West

George Heymont | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Brandon Jovanovich, Nina Stemme, Die Walkure, Gotterdammerung, Das Rheingold, Michael Yeargan, Siegfried, Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Richard Wagner, Jay Hunter Morris, Francesca Zambello, David Gockley, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco News
George Heymont

On Sunday July 3, the San Francisco Opera wrapped up its 2011 summer season, which was focused entirely on performances of Richard Wagner's four-opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen.

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Glyndebourne's Meistersinger: A Triumph

Elisabeth Braw | Posted 08.27.2011

Read More: Glyndebourne Opera Festival, Die Meistersinger, Opera, Richard Wagner, Arts News
Elisabeth Braw

Attention, Hollywood: you need Johannes-Martin Kränzle's comic services. No, you don't know him. He's an opera singer. While you have been cranking out bad comedies, opera has been cranking out new productions that will wow even the unmusical.

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Met Opera To Stage Opera With 3D Projections

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Metropolitan Opera, Opera in 3d, Met Opera Uses 3d on Stage, Richard Wagner, Met Opera Ring Cycle, Metropolitan Opera Ring Cycle, Metropolitan Opera in 3d, Richard Wagner Ring Cycle, Met Opera in 3d, Met Opera Siegfried, Arts News

The Metropolitan Opera has maintained its position at the forefront of using technology to their advantage, which is a practice most other opera compa...

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Art Therapy: Art Displayed In New Children's Hospital Made By Kids

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Grand Rapids, Helen DeVos Children's Hospital, Children, Art Therapy, Kandinsky, Modern Art, Painting, Kandinsky Project, Russian Art, Art, Avant-Garde, Helen Devos, Russian Painting, Richard Wagner, Slidepollajax, Lincoln Development Center, Art Education, Michigan, Children's Hospital, Arts News

Art is not only creative, but also a therapeutic process. When the new Helen DeVos Children's Hospital opened earlier this year in Grand Rapids, Michi...

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Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu Celebrates 25 Years of Hula in San Francisco

George Heymont | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: I Left My Heart in San Francisco, Kahuna, Halau, Kellen Paik, Kamaka Kukona, Der Ring Des Nibelungen, King David Kalakaua, King Kamehameha, Shawna Kealameleku'uleialoha Alapa'i, Isadora Duncan Dance Awards, Cosi Fan Tutte, 25 Years of Hula, The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Lucia Tarallo Jensen, San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival, Ke Kumulipo -- He Ho'ohanohano, Richard Wagner, Ia 'Oe E Ka La 2010, Delibes, Kumu Hula Association of Northern California, Matthew Martin, Hit and Run Hula, Madge Tennent, Yick Lum Plum, Kahiko, Hawaii Opera Theatre, Mozart, Kumu Hula, Raymoki Engler, Hula, Na Lei Hulu I Ka Wekiu, Hula Mua, Patrick Makuakane, Lihau Hannahs, Kumulipo, Hawaiiana, Arts News
George Heymont

For those of us who grew up on the East Coast, what little we knew about hula came from the movies. Shortly after moving to San Francisco on my 25th b...

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WATCH: BLOG WATCH> Wagner At War On The Rest Is Noise

therestisnoise.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Propaganda, Classical Music, Nazi Propaganda, New Yorker, Nazis, Gotterdammerung, Opera, Alex-Ross, Richard Wagner, Video, Arts News

The website Wagner Opera has uploaded to YouTube a scene from the 1941 Nazi propaganda film Stukas, in which a clinically depressed fighter pilot hear...

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My Takeaway From the Metropolitan Opera's New Rheingold

Albert Imperato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bryn Terfel, Metropolitan Opera, Mcmansions, Patti Smith, Deborah Voigt, Jonathan Franzen Freedom, Richard Wagner, New York News
Albert Imperato

The Metropolitan Opera's season-opening performances last week of Wagner's Das Rheingold got lots of media attention, and with good reason.

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STREAMING LIVE NOW: Richard Strauss's 'Salome' on MediciTV, Straight From Verbier

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Strauss, Classical Music, Video, Verbier, Deborah Voigt, Opera, Streaming, Richard Wagner, Verbier Festival, Live Music, Salome, Medici TV, Home News

Time to return to our beloved discovery, MediciTV. (Assuming we'd ever left.) Still live from the Verbier Festival in France, you can currently catch...

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Bassoonist Steinmetz Tells All About LA Opera's Ring

Laurence Vittes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Steinmetz, Achim Freyer, Bassoon, LA Opera, James Conlon, Richard Wagner, Arts News
Laurence Vittes

In keeping with their appearance, bassoonists are among the most intellectual members of the modern symphony orchestra.

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Ring Festival LA: The Legacy

Barry A. Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Barry A. Sanders

This is my final post on Ring Festival LA, a festival that gave birth to a spirit of community collaboration that will continue for years to enliven Los Angeles' cultural scene.

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How Do You Lose $5,960,000 on an Opera?

Ivan Katz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Metropolitan Opera, Die Walkure, Gotterdammerung, Das Rheingold, Siegfried, Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Richard Wagner, Achim Freyer, Placido Domingo, Opera Economics, Chicago Lyric Opera, Los Angeles Opera, San Francisco Opera, Arts News
Ivan Katz

A deficit this stunning could only have happened as a result of world-class incompetence. It is a management failure without parallel in American opera history.

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Festivals Within a Festival

Barry A. Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: LA Opera, Ring, Barry Sanders, Events, Verdi Chorus, Ring Festival LA, Das Liebesverbot, Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Richard Wagner, Los Angeles News
Barry A. Sanders

Ring Festival LA is in swing. Cinephiles and connoisseurs of the unusual will not be disappointed in upcoming Festival events.

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Buy LA Opera Stock

Laurence Vittes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Achim Freyer, LA Opera, Placido Domingo, James Conlon, Ring Cycle, Richard Wagner, Arts News
Laurence Vittes

Just about the time the Lakers hit training camp this fall, LA Opera will return from the outer space of Achim Freyer's Ring cycle and launch a blockbuster new season.

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The Twilight of the Festival

Barry A. Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Achim Freyer, Goethe Institute, LA Opera, Lacma, The Ring, Ring Festival LA, Gotterdammerung, Der Ring Des Nibelungen, Richard Wagner, Arts News
Barry A. Sanders

The final Ring Festival LA symposium and performance concluded on Sunday. The Opera's performances were as beautiful and exciting as we had hoped during all the years of their preparation.

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A Debt That Cannot Be Repaid: A Tribute to a Mentor, Eugene Prandato

Albert Imperato | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Metropolitan Opera, Deborah Voigt; Herbert Von Karajan, Richard Wagner, Eugene Prandato, Albert Imperato, New York News
Albert Imperato

I cried knowing that one of the people who had mattered most to me in life was now gone.

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Ring Around Los Angeles

Barry A. Sanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Die Walkure, Gotterdammerung, Ring Festival LA, Das Rheingold, Siegfried, Richard Wagner, Arts, LA Opera, Barry Sanders, Los Angeles News
Barry A. Sanders

LA Opera's visionary production of The Ring in June not only marks the first time this monumental masterpiece will be presented in LA, but it also creates a great opportunity.

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