Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by In his “Ring” cycle, Wagner uses musical themes to create a world of gods, heroes, dwarves and giants. By Michael Cooper Of all the special effects in ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Rian Johnson, Patti Smith, Alex Ross and others offer favorite highlights of a composer best known for his sprawling length. In the past we’ve chosen ...
Nearly a hundred fifty years after his death, German composer Richard Wagner remains an intimidating force in Western music. His operas are notoriously difficult to stage: he intended for them to ...
It’s one of the great epics of Western civilization, a four-part drama of family dysfunction and betrayal, of gods and mortals, giants and dwarfs, sacrifice and ultimate cleansing and renewal by fire ...
Das Rheingold is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen or The Ring of the Nibelung. It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre ...
Der fliegende Holländer, The Flying Dutchman, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner. The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship that can never make port, doomed to ...
Wagner College Opera presents ‘The Magic Flute,’ last staged with masked singers during the pandemic
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Wagner College Opera invites audiences to experience a magical night of spellbinding music, fantasy, and philosophy in its upcoming production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” ...
“Tannhäuser,” Richard Wagner’s paean to the provocative powers of the goddess Venus, will put Wagner and his theory of Gesamtkunstwerk center stage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for the first time ...
Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music. By Alex Ross.Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 784 pages; $40. Fourth Estate; £30. HITLER CASTS as long a shadow over Richard Wagner as Wagner casts over ...
Chicago’s Lyric Opera announced the company’s 2023-24 season Tuesday, billing the extensive slate as a “global tour of opera featuring a richly curated slate of musical events in six different ...
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