First Israeli Wagner performance, at Germany's Bayreuth
Bayreuth, Germany - For the first time since World War II, an Israeli orchestra played music by Richard Wagner in Germany on Tuesday, during the annual Bayreuth festival dedicated to the composer....
View ArticleProms 2013: Wagnerians - and Bantockians - will at least be well served
Some curious omissions as well as inclusions mark this year's Proms season, while Jansons and Barenboim look set to provide the summer's unmissable concerts The launch of the BBC Proms 2013 with...
View ArticleHigh time for the rise of the Valkyries
12 Separating the music from the man: the cast of Wide Open Opera's production of Tristan & Isolde. Photographs: Bill Cooper, Nadar/Henry Guttmann/Getty ImagesTristan & Isolde's composer,...
View ArticleA to Z of Wagner: H is for Hitler
The association with Nazi anti-semitism taints Wagner's music for many. Is that fair, asks Stephen Moss? Hitler meets Winifred Wagner, the composer's daughter-in-law. The two were close friends. H...
View ArticleIsraeli musicians in row over Wagner performance
BERLIN - The Israel Chamber Orchestra, set to perform in Bayreuth on Tuesday a work by Richard Wagner, the composer revered by the Nazis, are not on a "political mission," director Roberto Paternostro...
View ArticleIsraeli university cancels planned Wagner concert
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli university has cancelled plans to hold a concert featuring Richard Wagner's music after Holocaust survivors complained the performance would cause them "emotional...
View ArticleWagner's 'Orphans'
By MATTHEW GUREWITSCH Wednesday is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner. Festivities have been in full swing for some time, with no end in sight. Jonas Kaufmann starred in the...
View ArticleBayreuth Festival opens engulfed in 'Nazi' scandal
AFP - The Bayreuth Festival, an annual month-long celebration of Richard Wagner, opens Wednesday, with its new production of "The Flying Dutchman" engulfed in scandal even before the curtain rises....
View ArticleWagner anniversary revives German debate over controversial composer
New productions, statues and books commemorate Richard Wagner, who still divides Germany 200 years after his birth Richard Wagner was born on 22 May 1813 and died in 1883. Photograph: Trinquart/AP To...
View ArticleIsraeli orchestra plays Wagner in Germany
dapd The Israel Chamber Orchestra perform in Bayreuth, southern Germany Tuesday July 26, 2011. The Israeli orchestra is performing the music of Richard Wagner at the annual Bayreuth opera festival,...
View ArticleDance with the devil: an Israeli orchestra in Bayreuth
Today, an Israeli orchestra will be the first ever to perform at Bayreuth. Stephen Moss talks to the musicians risking controversy Under embargo .... Wagner's Die Meistersinger. Photograph: Tristram...
View ArticleLegacy of Wagner and Verdi is celebrated in bicentenary year
Rival legacies of classical pioneers to be honoured in 2013 with worldwide bonanza of recordings and performances Parsifal by Wagner at the London Coliseum, performed by English National Opera last...
View ArticleIsraeli orchestra confronts taboo at Wagner shrine
BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) - The Israel Chamber Orchestra will play a work by Adolf Hitler's favorite composer Richard Wagner in Germany Tuesday, challenging a seven-decade taboo in their homeland....
View ArticleOpera: Wagner’s strange mystique lives on in Bayreuth
BAYREUTH, Germany — For serious music lovers, certain places have the aura of shrines. For pop music fans of a certain age, it’s Woodstock. For me, walking into the Vienna Musikverein was deeply...
View ArticleIsrael and Wagner: two sides to the story
Having worked in Israel between 1971 and 1973, I was well aware of the unofficial ban on the music of Richard Wagner in that country. At the time I had not realized that the ban was older than Israel...
View ArticleGermany celebrates bicentennial of Richard Wagner
Germany today celebrated the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner, the 19th-century composer whose music has been hailed as sublime art at the height of Western culture even as he remains tainted by his...
View ArticleIsrael Chamber Orchestra Performs Wagner In Germany (VIDEO)
An annual month-long German celebration of composer Richard Wagner took a surprising turn this year by welcoming an Israeli ensemble for the first time in history. On Tuesday, the Israel Chamber...
View ArticleA to Z of Wagner: J is for Jews
Even by the putrid standards of the day, Wagner was a virulent anti-semite. J is for Jews, a controversial subject that cannot be ignored. While we may reject a mechanistic link between Wagner and...
View ArticleGermany celebrates composer Wagner's 200th
Germany on Wednesday celebrated the 200th birthday of Richard Wagner, the 19th-century composer whose music has been hailed as sublime art at the height of Western culture even as he remains tainted...
View ArticleConductor Adam Fischer: Wagner's music is like opium
Trust a Hungarian Jewish conductor to look beyond Richard Wagner's notorious anti-semitism and infamous personal life to mount a Wagner festival on a tight budget that has become a magnet for Wagner...
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