The problem was that Wagner felt that writing symphonies was no longer a worthwhile pursuit. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Schopenhauer’s theories, like Wagner’s operas, could not be described as succinct, and they are consequently hard to summarise briefly, but the idea that caught Wagner’s imagination was that we humans are essentially irrational, emotional animals. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But having destroyed the old gods in its finale, The Twilight of the Gods, Wagner’s next move was to found a new religion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Russian composers like Tchaikovsky mostly treated the brouhaha surrounding Wagner’s music dramas with disdain. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Wagner's ambition was nothing less than the creation of the art form of the future, in which all the arts would combine and fuse, led by the unequally greater power of music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In the final opera of the four, The Twilight of the Gods, Wagner made mayhem with the Icelandic concept of Ragnarok - the destruction of the gods as preordained by fate. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The colossus of Wagner is an inescapable reality of late-nineteenth- century music, indeed of recent Western civilisation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The formidable advance of science and technology in Wagner’s time, instead of making people confident and liberated, made them fearful and vulnerable, ripe for exploitation. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As with Elgar, it is as if Wagner had never existed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It is not so far-fetched to suggest that, without his link to the Nazis, most people who were not hardcore opera lovers would by now have lost interest in Wagner. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In order to help us perceive a character’s feelings or motivations, Wagner needed tools at his fingertips to be able to enrich and layer the music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Mr. Doyle’s voice, bragging to the police officer that Amanda and I are two of the smartest kids at Wagner, rings in my head. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

Bruckner’s third symphony of 1873 was dedicated to Wagner and in its first version contained melodic quotations from his idol’s operas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

What it is not, though, is the one thing that Wagner most wanted to bring to the world: musical drama. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Francis Poulenc neatly summed up the prevailing French ambivalence towards Wagner by saying that, after listening to him, it was necessary to cleanse one’s spirit and ears by listening to Mozart. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Her final humiliation and the triumph of the Aryan hero Parsifal were not very subtly concealed metaphors for what Wagner wanted to happen to German culture. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

One of the rebels clamouring for social change in an uprising in Dresden was a young Richard Wagner. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

By the time of Liszt and Wagner, the hierarchies were all but gone. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Wagner's theatre was an early attempt at what we would associate with the cinema, rather than the theatre, experience. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

But that it also concerns itself with unfair treatment of England’s medieval Jewish population would have ruled it out for the arch anti-Semite Wagner. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Porgyand Bess suffers from much the same problem as Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice or Wagner’s Parsifal, both of which arouse discussion of perceived anti-Semitism because they are both still performed today. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

I root for her, and I feel like that must help because someone pops on a Wagner CD, although I don’t know that the rousing “Ride of the Valkyries” is what I had in mind. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Such a reaction at a Wagner performance would have been considered blasphemous - to dare to interrupt the master’s unstoppable narrative flow. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The reality was that Wagner could only have a theatre built for him and his own pieces put on there thanks to the generosity of the very people he had previously so detested. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Figure 2.6: A melodic phrase based on the Siegfried leitmotif , from Wagner's opera The Valkyrie. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Audience members saw themselves as communicants, humble supplicants at the high altar, even while Wagner was still very much flesh and blood. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

He plays the chief part in the Volsungasaga, the Norse version of the German tale which Wagner’s operas have made familiar. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other great composers of Western music lived during other periods: Bach and Handel were Baroque era composers, for example; Brahms and Wagner, Romantic53 ; and Ravel and Debussy, Impressionist. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Whoever wants to understand National Socialist Germany must know Wagner,’ Hitler once said, and much of the propaganda surrounding him depicted him as a Wagnerian hero. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Although Wagner regarded all foreign influences as potentially threatening to German purity, he singled out the Jews for particular venom. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Wagner provided his cult with the solemn act of devotion, purification and veneration that is Parsifal. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For the Ring's first complete performance, Wagner decreed that the house lights should be dimmed. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

To stage the Ring, Wagner had his own theatre erected at Bayreuth. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

No one tried harder than Satie to puncture the pretension of Bayreuth, even if his rejection of the Wagner legacy may have been at times rather puerile. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Ilse Wagner is a nice girl with a cheerful disposition, but she’s extremely finicky and can spend hours moaning and groaning about something. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

But Wagner wasn't the only composer who was guilty of creating unnecessary clutter in the eyes of an iconoclast like Satie. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It was understandable that Wagner might want to speculate about the art world of the future, one that would encompass within it all the arts, centred on human dramas of love, death and destiny. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Notwithstanding his debt to Liszt, Wagner’s sound was, to them, incredibly daring and original. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Wagner did not fit either of these moulds. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His hands are fast, almost effortless, even as he goes off into a tangent about the War of the Romantics and how Liszt’s daughter left her husband for Wagner, quel scandale. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It’s no good pretending Wagner wasn’t accessory to this slide into xenophobic vitriol. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

And then Mr. Wagner, one of the caretakers from the school, comes and chases them away. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

That may sound harsh, but the evidence of Wagner’s musical impact is nothing like as convincing as his disciples would have us believe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Despite the fact that Wagner had learnt his trade writing pseudo- Italian operas, by the time he reached his maturity, he had moved decisively and deliberately away from an Italian style. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Debussy, in Paris, cashed in on the popularity of cakewalk piano rags, with his ‘Golliwogg’s Cakewalk’ of 1908 - which incidentally also includes a jokey musical quotation from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Gradually Wagner adopted a virulently anti-Semitic attitude that polluted his views on almost everything. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

My friend Jack Wagner has often, in Mexico, assumed this state of being. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bruckner aside, most of Wagner’s contemporaries, while quick to assert his musical brilliance, were as at sea with the whole Wagner-and-the-future-of-all-art project as they were with the cultural agendas of his dramas. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Diminishing and augmenting chords Wagner may have made his own, but they are all over Liszt’s daring, dark harmony. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

There is, however, another side to the philosophy driving Parsifal, and it is a side that for some Wagner worshippers flipped a switch. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Let’s see your place. I’ve never been there. Before you moved in, the two little old Wagner sisters wouldn’t even say good morning to me.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

Wagner’s vision was the product of a restless, angry age. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

At its heart lies a theory Wagner drew from Schopenhauer, from Buddhism and from Christianity, that self-enlightenment, or personal redemption, is achieved by denying oneself gratification, resisting temptation and seeking an understanding of fellow-suffering. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Musically, Parsifal derives much of its seductive power from Wagner’s frequent disruption of the listener’s expectations. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Wagner uses them prolifically throughout his ten most famous operas to evoke pain or anguish, or to tell you something grim might be about to happen. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Wagner’s debt to Liszt is evident even in Wagner’s most famous chord - so famous, in fact, that it has its own name. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The person most haunted by Berlioz’s symphonic setting of Romeo and Juliet, on the other hand, was Richard Wagner, who used it as a stylistic template for his opera Tristan und Isolde in 1865. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

His seventh symphony received its premiere at a Wagner memorial concert in December 1884, its second movement, Adagio, being in the form of a funeral lament for Wagner. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Above all, Faure had the confidence to turn his antipathy towards the many- layered complexity of Wagner’s music dramas into a much purer, emotionally restrained sound. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

As Freud was to do some years later, Wagner tackled taboo and controversy head- on. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

A massive orchestra—the Berlin Philharmonic merged with the national orchestra and supplemented by half a dozen military bands-—launched into Wagner’s Huldigungsmarsch, the March of Homage. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

That said, it is only fair to point out that Wagner's keenest interest was not the fate of the gods but rather what happened to humanity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

The Ring also called for the invention of subsequently dubbed 'Wagner tubas, a hybrid that combined elements of the French horn, trombone and euphonium. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

She has changed the radio station, and a Wagner opera now fills the flat. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Wagner’s acolytes were happy to have retreated into their private Valhalla, where only the initiated, the learned and the bold would venture to tread. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Above all, Wagner’s focus was on the psychology of his characters. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

So, in a monumental piece of symbolism that defined his age, at the end of the Ring Wagner annihilated the gods altogether in his musical Armageddon. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

“Officer, I’m carrying two of the smartest kids at Wagner High School.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The latter, never mind everything else about Massenet, would have been anathema to drama-obsessed Wagner. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

It took Wagner twenty-six years to create his Ring cycle, completed in 1874. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Fully understanding the racial implications of Parsifal’s message and its pre-eminence in Nazi ideology, it is uncomfortable for us to hear Wagner’s sublime music without wincing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Wagner followers gloried in the alarm his work often provoked among outsiders. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

D. H. Lawrence wrote a novel, The Trespasser, which was inspired by Wagner s version of Siegfried. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Liszt and Wagner idolised Berlioz, which would explain much that happened in the second half of the nineteenth century, a torrid drama that will unfold in the next chapter. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Most figures and motifs are shorter than phrases, but some of the leitmotifs of Wagner's operas are long enough to be considered phrases. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Wagner wasn’t the only one who believed music and mysticism could fuse to become the religion of the future. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Listening to Faure after Brahms, Liszt, Wagner or Tchaikovsky is comparable to someone spring-cleaning and redecorating a teenage boy’s bedroom. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

For Wagner, nothing was allowed to distract from the unfolding musical story and he would happily intertwine chorus, solo, duets, instrumental interludes so that you could hardly tell when one ended and another began. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

In his final piece, Parsifal, of 1882, Wagner turned the theatre into a temple, the plot into a sacramental ritual and the leitmotifs he bestowed with sacred power. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Ilse Wagner has a Ping-Pong set, and the Wagners let us play in their big dining room whenever we want. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

As Helmuth dries the last dish, the Wagner opera is interrupted. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

The harmony is in meltdown because Wagner has used chromaticism, the promiscuous use of all the subdivisions in the scale, to put you in an unsettling place. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

When my father finally began yelling at me for disgracing him in front of an important guest, Harry started banging out Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg on the Pegasus to drown him out. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The National Labor Relations Act, also known as the Wagner Act, guaranteed workers the right to form unions and collectively bargain for fair wages and workplace safety. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

Indeed, one of the reasons musicians from all over Europe flocked to hear Wagner’s music dramas at Bayreuth in the 1870s was because they were so radically out of step with the mainstream. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

That is not to say that some classical musicians did not attain fame and success, but these were mostly singers, conductors and virtuoso players, making their names with Verdi, Mahler, Mozart or Wagner. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Inventing a uniquely German form of opera, therefore, for Wagner, was a political choice. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z

Georgie and I had carved ours more than once, using a jackknife we’d stolen from Mr. Wagner, one of the first caretakers. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

If any Wagner is indestructible yet still capable of bringing tears to the eyes and joy to the breasts of billions it’s the Bridal Chorus from “Lohengrin” at weddings. The Bowl is no Bayreuth. And with Wagner in Dudamel's defiant hands, that's not a bad thing 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z

He recalled that he and Mr. Wagner talked weeks earlier. Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Wagner spent his life pursuing his ideal of the gesamtkunstwerk, a synthesis of all the arts. Opera North tackles Wagner's Ring Cycle – minus the financial dramas 2012-06-12T16:15:28Z

It’s enormous, in this place, how the common knowledge of Wagner still exists, in every orchestral musician, in every stage technician. ‘A Stone in the Mosaic’: A Director Enters the House of Wagner 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

“Though I was the Wagnerian tenor of my generation, I never liked what Wagner stood for,” he told the Globe and Mail. Jon Vickers, acclaimed Canadian operatic tenor, dies at 88 2015-07-13T04:00:00Z

Seeking is like the comic version of 2011’s Melancholia—in which filmmaker Lars Von Trier let the world end in a stunning explosion of fire and the crescendo of his Wagner score. Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: Love in the Ruins 2012-06-21T10:45:56Z

"It was my greatest conviction to bring together these two sides -- Israel and Wagner," said Paternostro, who is Jewish and whose mother and other relatives were Holocaust survivors. Israeli orchestra confronts taboo at Wagner shrine 2011-07-24T17:01:54Z

Using a 19th-century guillotine-style paper cutter, Wagner cut thousands of pieces of paper in 10 different sizes, all rectangles in the same proportions that Powers favors. He Lost Fingers in an Accident. Now It’s Inspiring His Art. 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

He is scheduled to conduct Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung,” an energy-sapping, five-hour work, starting on Jan. 27, as well as the entire Wagner “Ring” cycle in April. The Dilemma of James Levine and the Metropolitan Opera 2011-09-24T04:29:45Z

He built enormous castles, loved the music of Richard Wagner, and amazed the peasantry with his caprices. In conversation with Werner Herzog: 'Facts do not constitute truth' 2014-09-07T04:00:00Z

This may well be the fastest Wagner opera you’ve ever heard. Seattle Opera’s ‘Flying Dutchman’ unleashes gloriously perfect storm 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

Ms. Voigt, a heralded interpreter of Wagner, Verdi and Strauss heroines, is appearing as the backwoods sharpshooter of the title in Irving Berlin’s “Annie Get Your Gun,” which opens Saturday. Opera Star Tries Doin? What Comes Natur?lly 2011-07-14T22:16:30Z

“She’s an artist making a huge, risky leap, taking Wagner and making him common, contemporary currency, work that relates to our time.” Inside Art: Cindy Sherman?s Guises All in a Single Place 2011-02-17T21:45:07Z

The answer, alas, comes shortly thereafter when she accuses Wagner of shutting her out of the family and “allegedly blacklisting me in the business,” among other things. Review | How did Natalie Wood die? Forty years later, her sister offers theories in a new book. 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Wagner was writer of Tomlin's Tony-winning one-woman show "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe," and wrote the screenplay for her movie "The Incredible Shrinking Woman." Lily Tomlin ties knot with partner of 42 years 2014-01-08T14:45:12Z

Meanwhile, Wagner said she’s mostly disappointed that she wasn’t able to see the show. Delayed Seattle Van Gogh exhibit’s unclear opening date, location frustrate ticket holders 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

An admired conductor of both Wagner and contemporary works – he led the premiere of Pelléas et Mélisande, which Debussy dedicated to him – he also wrote a clutch of operas, ballets, operettas and musical comedies. Fortunio – review 2013-07-11T17:43:00Z

For a film about a production with so much riding on it, “Wagner’s Dream” is remarkably free of hysteria. | ‘Wagner’s Dream’: ‘Wagner’s Dream,’ Documentary About Met’s ‘Ring’ Cycle 2012-07-18T23:04:08Z

It is telling that it was the wife of Edouard Manet, the "founding father" of Impressionism, who played Wagner to the great poet, Baudelaire, as he lay dying in 1868. Introduction to Royal Academy's From Paris: A Taste for Impressionism 2012-08-29T21:54:17Z

With a lyrical voice trained in bel canto style, he is challenging notions of what a Wagner voice should sound like. A Tenor’s Secrets to ‘Lohengrin’: Golf and a Blunt Spouse 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

“For 12 or 13 years, I sang works like ‘Der Zigeunerbaron’ sometimes twice a day — works that are totally different and unknown to people who listen to Wagner.” How Do You Conquer One of Opera’s Toughest Roles? Start Light 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

This January, however, he was in Paris, working on both “Così” and Wagner’s “Lohengrin,” the only one of that composer’s operas he hadn’t yet conducted. Philippe Jordan, a Conductor Who Excels at Juggling Jobs 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z

“We wanted to build something only in wood,” Max Wagner said. A Temporary Concert Hall Hopes for a Permanent Audience 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

For Richard Wagner, the latest technology was crucial to staging his operas. Review: Wagner Would Have Liked AR, but Not This ‘Parsifal’ 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

That's assuming the goes ahead with its concert, so intense is the controversy provoked by its visit to the place which the street signs proclaim as Wagnerstadt – Wagner town. Dance with the devil 2011-07-26T08:01:01Z

His instinct for the cut-and-thrust urgency as though in pursuit of the climatic moments was paramount, yet the ecstatic beauty of Wagner's score eluded him, its glorious harmonies glossed over. Tristan und Isolde – review 2012-05-22T11:57:52Z

After retiring, she continued to pass on her experience to younger ENO singers as a coach, also giving masterclasses for organisations such as the Wagner Society and the National Opera Studio. Ava June obituary 2013-03-05T18:07:58Z

“And so when I got this offer to sing my first Wagner, I said: ‘Why not? How Do You Conquer One of Opera’s Toughest Roles? Start Light 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

Such ungenerous assessments aren’t necessarily inaccurate; Wagner knows her family better than I do. Alex Wagner Digs Into Her Family’s Past in ‘Futureface’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

As for the Wagner, it did seem true to life. The best battle scenes ever shot from Apocalypse Now to Hacksaw Ridge 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

If Pape’s tonal pleasures have often seemed to come at the expense of vivid characterizations — as in his beautiful, bland Gurnemanz in Wagner’s “Parsifal” — he fits the restraint of this conductor, chorus and production. Review: After a Met Opera Milestone, ‘Boris’ Brings Another 2021-09-29T04:00:00Z

It’s a call taken up with rally-style fervor by the crowd, and it’s hard not to hear in it premonitions of what was to come in Nuremberg four decades after Wagner’s death. Review: Wagnerian Comedy Is No Joke in the Met’s ‘Meistersinger’ 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

"While the Nazis famously saw him as a model of musical health, at no time before or since the 1800s has one figure so dominated the debate on music as a pathogen as Wagner." A disease called Richard? Wagner as mental health menace 2013-05-22T10:54:15Z

She credits motherhood with propelling her into the dramatic lead roles in Wagner and Strauss she is now known for. What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Laufenberg aptly commented in his interview that no character in Wagner says and knows so much, yet reveals so little of himself, as Gurnemanz, a veteran knight, respected by all. Review: A Sublime and Provocative ‘Parsifal’ at Bayreuth 2016-07-26T04:00:00Z

He breezed through Mozart and Strauss, and ended with the Long Call solo from Wagner’s “Siegfried.” A Young Horn Player Could Become ‘a Real Legend’ 2022-06-06T04:00:00Z

“She has a unique carrying voice,” Ms. Wagner said. A ‘One-in-a-Million Voice’ Arrives at the Met Opera 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Bulger, Wagner and Kaloostian noted that the pandemic has made telemedicine more widely available and that hospitals and care facilities have developed and streamlined safety procedures in the months since the pandemic began. Experts offer advice on how to create a well-stocked home first-aid kit 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

This should not be something to erase, but rather something to explore — for us watching and for the stage directors who shape Wagner’s vision for us. Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin’ Uses the Word ‘Führer.’ Keep It There. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

Around her, an orchestra darkened by the absence of its violin sections murmured and roiled, its sound colored with itchy harpsichord, twinkling celesta and harps, burnished Wagner tubas and an enormous, roaring tam-tam. Music Review: Orchestra and Violin, Matching Wits 2011-04-01T22:59:41Z

There is little action, with the scenery alternating between a ship's deck, a garden and a linden tree, in Wagner's original. Stemme shines as Isolde in Wagner's love story 2013-06-14T14:56:09Z

The book earns its title from a new hire who disrupts Nella’s status as Wagner’s proverbial fly in the buttermilk. Review | ‘The Other Black Girl’ should be at the top of your summer reading list 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

Robert Wagner, a front-of-the-house manager, said the shack opened on May 3. Take the Rockabus to the Rockaways 2013-06-05T22:07:49Z

Whatever Ms. Wagner comes up with, audiences will probably boo her on opening night. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

And younger members of the ensemble say that for their generation, as presumably for many young Israelis, Wagner is not a pressing issue. Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Delivers 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

The city’s Wagnerites, a passionate, sometimes obsessive lot, began to look on jealously as she sang elsewhere, recalled Nathalie D. Wagner, the president of the Wagner Society of New York. Nina Stemme Takes On Her Biggest Met Opera Assignment Yet 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

What Ross terms Wagner’s “manipulation of myth” enabled him to arouse in the collective unconscious reactions that no individual art form alone could stimulate. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

But for many music historians, composers and performers, it's Wagner's opera "Tristan und Isolde" that deserves the title. Preview: Seattle Opera stages Wagner's influential 'Tristan und Isolde' 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z

Not long before that, in Houston, Wagner’s “Die Walküre” drew a capacity crowd. The Fate of the Critic in the Clickbait Age 2017-03-13T04:00:00Z

But this underemphasis does mean that you can't help feeling, sometimes, that Conrad has missed a trick: that there really is a big, deep problem with Wagner, and with liking him. Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad – review 2013-02-19T12:10:12Z

“A Corny Concerto,” and “The Rabbit of Seville,” the sound tracks of which feature Wagner, Rossini, and Johann Strauss II adapted by the legendary professionals Milt Franklyn and Carl W. Stalling. Cultural Clicks: "Mad Men," the Radical Art of Chris Burden, and the Momofuku Empire 2015-05-14T04:00:00Z

The opera explores the age-old question of what is art, Ms. Wagner said. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

Diangienda is now on his way to London to become an honorary member of the Royal Philharmonic Society, an accolade previously granted to the likes of Mendelssohn, Rossini, Wagner, Brahms and Stravinsky. The scratch orchestra of Kinshasa 2013-05-09T17:29:43Z

No wonder the "humpback" Duchess Sophie falls for him in a fairytale meeting where they discover a shared passion for Richard Wagner. Valhalla! 2010-07-12T20:31:00Z

No one would question her pre-eminence as one of today's finest dramatic mezzos and Wagner interpreters. Meier/Breinl – Edinburgh festival review 2012-08-14T17:00:01Z

“I personally think that as long as there is so much sensitivity in Israel for the music of Wagner, we should shy away from it here in Israel,” Ms. Talmi said. Israeli Group Set to Play In Bayreuth 2010-10-06T21:52:00Z

Wagner said his wife was not suicidal, a view authorities shared, and many concluded Wood was trying to stop the 13-ft Zodiac dinghy banging against the yacht and tumbled overboard. Natalie Wood: drowning reclassified by US coroner 2013-01-14T21:09:00Z

The Wagner was the Tristan Prelude, played with the rarely heard concert ending provided by the composer himself, which tacks elements of the Liebestod somewhat apologetically on to the main piece. Prom 33: BBC Philharmonic/Mena 2012-08-08T11:55:13Z

And finally it’s a homecoming, too, for Wagner himself. Seattle Opera returns to live performance with outdoors ‘Die Walküre’ concert 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

The music of Richard Wagner is said to have reflected this, just as in a debased way contemporary Black Metal articulates its own aesthetic of supremacy. What is “white supremacy”? A brief history of a term, and a movement, that continues to haunt America 2017-04-23T04:00:00Z

The programme includes works by Verdi, Wagner, Mozart and Puccini, and the premiere of a new piece by Tan Dun. Tonight's TV highlights: Placido Domingo Gala 2011-03-18T00:05:00Z

Wagner in the concert hall is an inevitable compromise, but this 200th-birthday anniversary concert, which also launched London's Wagner 200 festival, lacked nothing for commitment to the master's cause. Wagner 200 in London – review 2013-05-23T17:23:07Z

A: I must say I'm not too positive about this polemic that's been set up by the press, Wagner against Verdi. A Minute With:-Royal Opera's Pappano: "No idea I'd be a conductor" 2013-10-16T13:02:56Z

He recalled one of Mr. Wagner’s small, but effective, touches on “Jelly’s Last Jam,” the 1992 musical about the jazz pioneer Jelly Roll Morton. Robin Wagner, Set Designer Who Won Three Tony Awards, Dies at 89 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

It’s fitting that Berra was preparing to leave as the Kennedy Center produced Richard Wagner’s four-opera extravaganza, “The Ring Cycle.” Before his final bow, a Kennedy Center veteran hands out one last backstage pass 2016-05-27T04:00:00Z

Wagner, whose expansive operas are hailed as musical masterpieces, was Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer and he and his Nazi followers embraced the composer’s anti-Semitic writings and ideology. Anti-Semitic letter by Wagner sold at auction in Jerusalem 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

In between fine-tuning stories for the White House correspondent Maggie Haberman or the New York Yankees beat writer James Wagner, I spent my nights nestled in Broadway theaters. Discount Me In: How I Saw 30 Shows on a Student Budget 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z

The course of Wagner's Ring never did run smooth. Siegfried – review 2012-09-30T16:15:01Z

The violins played long notes on high, not unlike the angelic overture to Wagner’s “Lohengrin,” as the horns droned down below. The Boston Symphony Finds Surprises and Strengths in New Music 2023-04-26T04:00:00Z

During the prelude to Act I, the penetrating warmth of the soft strings in this acoustically miraculous house, designed by Wagner, was spellbinding. Music Review: Hans Neuenfels Gathers Rats in ?Lohengrin? 2010-08-04T22:14:00Z

Wagner remarked in 1957, that the "human, the Wagnerian being" was the most important element of his own productions. Wolfgang Wagner, longtime Bayreuth director, dies 2010-03-22T07:59:00Z

Wagner dismissed the complaints as sour grapes over the market success of his brands. Two of the year’s wine scandals could have far-reaching consequences 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

“He found a completely new way to look at my work,” Ms. Wagner said. In San Francisco, the Wizard of Oddities Is In, Sticking His Neck Where It Belongs 2012-07-27T21:34:26Z

Mr. Levine is a supreme Wagner conductor who taps into the dramatic depths and gravity of the music while eliciting playing of clarity and precision. Music Review: Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Conducted by Semyon Bychkov 2012-10-15T22:03:59Z

Consolidating the German tenor's growing reputation as a Wagner interpreter, it both sums up his achievement to date and takes him into new, potentially controversial territory. Wagner: Arias; Wesendonck-Lieder – review 2013-03-06T15:30:01Z

His learning curve is very rapid—he progresses from a virtual infancy to sophisticated adulthood in seconds, and proves his ostensible perfection by sitting down to the piano and playing some Wagner, at Weyland’s request. “Alien: Covenant” Bursts with Pomposity 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z

But the sun and moon switching places aren’t the only moving objects in the vista at Robert F. Wagner Park. Review: The Spinning Mathematicians of Kathak Dance 2018-08-16T04:00:00Z

Almost as disturbing as her vocal shortcomings were her quirky physical mannerisms, which happily bypassed the Wagner but eventually turned to mugging and stopped the show completely before the last two Strauss songs. Review: Karita Mattila, and Her Quirks, in Concert 2016-03-13T05:00:00Z

The current Met season ended earlier this month with Wagner's "Ring" cycle - and anyone who heard Stemme's Bruennhilde in San Francisco a year ago knows how much her presence might have added to those performances. Nina Stemme triumphs in `Salome' at Carnegie 2012-05-25T14:04:09Z

I learned of Wagner’s anti-Semitism before ever hearing his music, and when I finally did all I could hear in his swoops and little flits into dissonance was something faintly but unmistakably sinister. The Ugly Truth 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

Now, no one wants to talk to Mr. Wagner. Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Phil went all-out, using five harps, a quartet of Wagner tubas and a set of tuned anvils bonging away in the descent into Nibelheim from the first “Ring” opera, “Das Rheingold.” A Wagner 'Ring' sampler: Short, but still so much to savor 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

Asked what the most important thing to remember about singing a challenging Wagner role, the soprano Birgit Nilsson replied, “Comfortable shoes.” How to survive the next four years on social media? Opera can help. 2017-02-10T05:00:00Z

Wagner writes these scenes scantly, perhaps to avoid bogging the movie down in long dialogue but seemingly, even more crucially, to give the characters’ pasts an air of quasi-universality. Revisiting “Moment by Moment,” Lily Tomlin and John Travolta’s Wrongly Despised 1978 Melodrama 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Young Wagner: It was a perfect showcase for Fisch’s sensitivities combined with the blasting energy of the young players, who made every line crackle. Review | Young orchestra makes case for the future of music 2017-06-25T04:00:00Z

But the Seventh brought Barenboim’s great talent as a conductor of Wagner’s operas to the fore. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z

Wagner and Mendelssohn: the man who declared that Jews couldn't write worthwhile music, and a Jew who wrote it. Wagner and Mendelssohn make interesting bedfellows at Seattle Symphony 2010-06-18T18:33:00Z

Wagner wrote the “Siegfried Idyll” as a birthday present for his wife, Cosima, after the birth of their son Siegfried. So You Want to Be a Socially Distanced Orchestra 2020-06-16T04:00:00Z

Weber was not the only early-Romantic composer to write a sung-through German opera, but it was his that spurred Schumann and Wagner to aim higher. Russell Platt: Classical Music This Summer 2014-06-02T04:00:00Z

Wagner has also in some ways been as important to the history of recording as he was to the history of music. Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z

Given his taste for the miniature, for his Japanese garden and rows of dwarf trees, Ravel's muted enthusiasm for Wagner, the sprawler to beat all sprawlers, is hardly a surprise. L'heure espagnole/L'enfant et les sortilèges; BBC Prom 33 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:35Z

It consists of chunks from The Flying Dutchman – Wagner conducted it in Zürich in 1852 – and from the Ring, three-fifths of which was written there. Wagner in Switzerland – review 2013-07-04T20:40:02Z

Wagner died on Sunday, the festival said in a brief statement on its Web site. Wolfgang Wagner, longtime Bayreuth director, dies 2010-03-22T07:59:00Z

Musically, it is the young Wagner’s attempt to do a German version of a French grand opera, and then some. Music Review: Wagner?s ?Rienzi? From Opera Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-02-01T00:07:03Z

Davern and Wagner agree on one point about the fateful night - there was a heated argument on the yacht after the group returned from dinner on Catalina. Natalie Wood detectives face conflicting accounts 2011-11-19T12:47:11Z

Wagner was an ardent anti-Semite and his music is still widely considered taboo in Israel. Nazi-themed opera creates scandal in Germany 2013-05-07T13:42:55Z

“Would the Germans,” the column sneered, “have opened the Wagner year with a Verdi opera?” Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z

It’s no surprise that Mr. Petrenko’s true Beethoven triumph was last August, in the Ninth Symphony, whose Romanticism leans more toward Wagner than does the concerto’s Classicism. Musicians Love the Conductor Kirill Petrenko. It Shows. 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z

"No musician's music was seen as such a potentially dangerous stimulant as Wagner's," says James Kennaway, a historian specialising in music and medicine. A disease called Richard? Wagner as mental health menace 2013-05-22T10:54:15Z

But very soon I embraced it because Wagner’s genius is present all along. Met opera gets visionary new “Dutchman” 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

But Hazel swiftly eclipses Nella, joining forces with the company’s editor in chief, Richard Wagner, and hogging the mic at a fall marketing meeting. Review | ‘The Other Black Girl’ should be at the top of your summer reading list 2021-06-09T04:00:00Z

“When you want to do Saint-Saëns and Wagner together, even though they criticized one another all their lives, it’s obvious they respected each other,” says Seattle Symphony music director Ludovic Morlot, who will conduct. Seattle Symphony ends season with Wagner, Saint-Saëns 2013-06-25T18:30:10Z

As one of two non-white staffers at Wagner Books, a prominent New York publisher, Nella is accustomed to it. "The Other Black Girl" peeks into the hidden horrors of being the only person of color at the office 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z

Wagner, 73, has been performing in the Northwest for more than half a century. Walt Wagner, longtime Canlis pianist, is retiring ... and Sub Pop will be there to document it 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Whereas Wagner’s default position is loud — not just acoustically loud, but emotionally and psychologically loud — Debussy’s is soft. John Adams on Debussy, the First Modernist 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

I paired up with Trixie Wagner for the rest of the ride. 4,000 Miles, Seven Countries: An African Adventure on Two Wheels 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Despite flagging Wagner as a potential suspect they seem stumped and are appealing for help. Natalie Wood: reinvestigating the mysterious death of a movie star 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Deryck Cooke, in I Saw the World End, his splendid study of Wagner's Ring Cycle, shows how intelligently Wagner constructed his character, Loge, from the available sources of the myths. Ragnar?k: the doom of the gods 2011-08-05T21:55:10Z

This was Wagner of a rarefied kind, rarefied above all because of its simplicity. Nelsons Turns Tanglewood Into Bayreuth-in-the-Berkshires 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

Ms. Westbroek, known for heavier roles by Puccini, Verdi and Wagner, is new to contemporary opera, and she admits to finding it a challenge. Far From Valhalla: A Tabloid Star Is Joining The Sisterhood Of the Fallen 2011-02-13T01:06:18Z

An operatic story of obsession and necrophiliac consummation needs an appropriate soundtrack: Buñuel therefore selected extracts from Wagner's feverish Tristan und Isolde. The classics revisited 2011-08-20T23:04:02Z

But “Voodoo,” dotted with a few gentle, warm arrangements of spirituals, recalls the lyricism of Puccini, Massenet and Gounod more than the through-composed density and leitmotifs of Wagner. Review: ‘Voodoo,’ by Harry Lawrence Freeman, Has First Staging Since 1928 2015-06-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wagner goes around topping off wineglasses to “lubricate the situation,” he said. Fung Tu Keeps Cooking, Even With Gas Shut Off 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

Wagner’s opera is about a group of tradesman and minor officials in 16th-century Nuremberg: a cobbler, a goldsmith, a furrier, a baker, a tailor, a town clerk and others. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

Diplomacy, unity and openness, never part of the Wagner family style, are now vital. Bayreuth festival: Lohengrin 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

Oddly, Wagner fails to tell us what happens to Alberich, who, despite being responsible for all the Tarantinoesque mayhem, is the only character left standing by the end. A-Z of Wagner: A is for Alberich 2013-01-16T17:13:07Z

Plenty of performances I heard contradicted that generalization—in Wagner, Strauss, and Berg, especially, Levine could summon an atmosphere of brooding power—yet the accusation is not unjust. James Levine’s Accomplishment at the Met 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Particularly playful is the miniature “Opposites Attract,” which references Wagner and Virgil Thomson without forgetting to contribute some melodic invention of its own. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

There's strong regional support for Mary and an ongoing internet campaign to keep Wagner in, so they probably won't go. The X Factor Files: Stuart Heritage's X Factor briefing 2010-11-19T12:42:00Z

Dorian was by no means alone, for it was in Tannhäuser, more than any of Wagner's other operas, that many in the late 19th century found a reflection of their moral and sexual concerns. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z

“Wagner and Me”: Actor/author Stephen Fry explores his passion for the composer Richard Wagner. Mariners FanFest, Caspar Babypants, Latino culture | Weekend Preview 2013-01-23T20:37:06Z

On Sunday, the place was Robert F. Wagner Park, where the hourlong performance of 10 pieces and extracts was part of the River to River festival. Review: ‘Trisha Brown: In Plain Site’ Sends Dancers Gamboling in the Grass 2015-06-22T04:00:00Z

Will this illustrious highpoint in the musical calendar – always run by the Wagner family, and still the most talked about event of its kind in the world – survive? Bayreuth festival: Lohengrin 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

In the “Ride of the Valkyries,” Ms. Zambello presents Wagner’s noisy warrior maidens in caps and goggles, parachuting onto a landing strip atop an arid mountain. Music Review: A ?Ring? Made of California Gold 2011-06-16T22:15:29Z

“We are in a state of cancel culture right now, but we want to move to accountability culture,” Ms. Peoples Wagner said. It’s Time to End Racism in the Fashion Industry. But How? 2020-06-24T04:00:00Z

Just as men of a nervous disposition were encouraged to stay away from whisky, love affairs and cigars, so women were urged to avoid piano-tuning and Wagner. A disease called Richard? Wagner as mental health menace 2013-05-22T10:54:15Z

It's a reading backed up by the writings of philosopher Ludwig Feuerbach, whom Wagner was studying while working on the Ring texts in the 1850s. Keith Warner on his Royal Opera House Ring Cycle 2012-09-26T19:00:02Z

Mark Elder's performance with the Hallé will consecrate the space with Wagner's most radiant, ambitious and sheerly sumptuous music. Sakari Oramo's First Night at the Proms 2013-07-10T17:59:00Z

Tarantino and Wagner will plot the storylines for the series together, with the latter providing the final script. Tarantino to revive Django character in new comic book story with Zorro 2014-06-19T04:00:00Z

“There were more performances of this opera in Russia those 18 months than operas of Wagner, Puccini or Verdi.” Stalin Didn’t Like This Opera, but Audiences Still Do 2022-09-25T04:00:00Z

The film’s writer, Bruce Wagner, has dismissed the idea that Maps is satire. John Cusack: ‘Hollywood is a whorehouse and people go mad’ 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

The program includes works by Schubert, Schumann, Wolf, Debussy, Duparc, Ravel and, yes, Wagner; and the pianist, in a bit of glamour casting, is the conductor Robert Spano. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z

But in 2011, the investigation was reopened by the Los Angeles Police Department after Mr. Davern said he heard Ms. Wood and Mr. Wagner arguing earlier in the evening. Lana Wood, Natalie’s Little Sister, Has Plenty to Say 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

“Oh Oscars—don’t play Wagner while Alejandro is talking about prejudice and race.” A Closer Look at Wagner and #OscarsSoWhite 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

On Sunday, a music story is unfolding that involves three beloved local institutions: Canlis restaurant, Sub Pop Records and pianist Walt Wagner. Walt Wagner, longtime Canlis pianist, is retiring ... and Sub Pop will be there to document it 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Why did Wagner choose such an unusual style? A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Wagner is soft-spoken, with a Southern accent and an aura of encouraging kindness. Why Lily Tomlin said yes to 'Intelligent Life' without her 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Dylan, for his part, seems to favor Mozart and Beethoven over Wagner, whom he colorfully described, in a 1993 interview, as “one of the archcriminals of all time.” Bob Dylan as Richard Wagner 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z

Maybe it’s an oversimplification to say that that’s the purest form of the ideology that was bequeathed from Richard Wagner to Nietzsche to Adolf Hitler, but not by much. “The Dark Knight Rises”: Christopher Nolan’s evil masterpiece 2012-07-18T20:50:00Z

Bender merely repurposed the bombast of Wagner and the movies, transforming it, as the title “Total Recall” suggests, into a vaguely menacing video science fiction. Art Review: Gretchen Bender’s Work Is Displayed at the Kitchen 2013-09-05T23:02:42Z

His disgust with anti-Semitism soured his relationship with both his sister and Richard Wagner. Letters to the Editor 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z

He was referring to Verdi’s penultimate work, which ranks alongside Wagner’s “Tristan” as one of the most challenging tenor roles in the repertory. Mezzo Dolora Zajick possesses enthusiasm as big as her voice 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

But repetition and scale figures do not equal Minimalism, and if they did, Beethoven and Wagner would have a far stronger claim to being proto-Minimalists than Bruckner. Music Review: A Concept Is Minimal. The Works Sure Aren?t. 2011-07-16T00:02:19Z

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton similarly rebuffed Wagner; only Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of the three potential swing votes in this matter, made an extended statement to the press. “The Circus” goes to Kavanaugh: Women’s pain collides with the sport of politics 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

Wagner was a great composer and a nasty piece of work. Lisztomania: the most embarrassing historical film ever made? 2013-02-06T10:22:00Z

“Performing Wagner here,” Mr. Rainer said, in an understatement, “would be difficult.” Inch by Inch, an Operatic Jewel Is Polished 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

"So Wagner is more important than Beethoven?" said Wagner. Wagner descendant heads a music fest -- Beethoven, not Bayreuth 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Austria’s Salzburg Festival starts Saturday and the Richard Wagner Festival resumes July 25 after a one-year absence. Opera returns to open-air desert theater with diverse cast 2021-07-14T04:00:00Z

His name is all but forgotten today, but a century ago Franz Schreker was considered perhaps the most important operatic composer since Richard Wagner. Schreker's opera 'Distant Sound' heard at Bard 2010-07-31T19:01:00Z

“The management saw itself compelled to prevent my reputation from being tarnished by putting ‘Rienzi’ back on the boards in short order,” Wagner said in “My Life.” Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

Ms. Wagner was not sure what to do, but the foundation also helped her to get advice. For Artists, the Thrill of Grant Money Arrives With a ‘Now What’? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wagner, who grew up in Michigan, went on tour with Reed in 1973 and joined Cooper a year later. Dick Wagner, rock guitarist who co-wrote many of Alice Cooper’s hits, dies at 71

Under the stewardship of Wagner's widow Cosima, who lived to age 92, and her children and their spouses, Bayreuth became the cultural nexus of the Third Reich. 'Autobahn to Bayreuth' - English soprano sings for Wagner's 200th 2013-07-21T15:31:14Z

LEIPZIG, Germany — How quickly Richard Wagner changed his mind about “Rienzi,” his first successful opera. Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

The orchestra will play Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, an orchestral piece, in Bayreuth, Germany, famous for its annual Wagner opera festival in July and August. Israeli orchestra confronts taboo at Wagner shrine 2011-07-24T17:01:54Z

He may more ideally suit roles like Wagner’s brooding Parsifal, which he sang splendidly last summer in a new production at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany. Review: Spruce and Taut, the Met Opera’s ‘Fidelio’ Looks Good at 17 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z

Among the many other striking solo efforts, Thomas Jöbstl deserves mention for his offstage horn work in the Wagner. Music Review: Lorin Maazel Leads the Vienna Philharmonic 2012-03-05T23:22:05Z

The piece also featured the best work from soprano Julia Sophie Wagner, whose slightly squeezed and colorless tone was one of the few disappointments. Helmuth Rilling returns to NSO with sweet gifts of Bach

What that means is anyone's guess but Fischer, who has conducted Wagner at the house he built, and elsewhere, prefers to see Hungary's festival as "Wagner from a different view". Conductor Adam Fischer: Wagner's music like "opium" 2012-06-21T15:12:29Z

And, in 12 months, he’ll become the first American to direct a production at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany, founded by Richard Wagner in 1876 and still devoted to his operas. Opera’s Disrupter in Residence, Heading to Bayreuth 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z

During the height of the pandemic, Watson and Wagner got into the habit of sending gift cards and food to his hometown hospital, Munson Medical Center in Traverse City, Michigan. Barry Watson talks ‘Heaven,’ spirituality and cancer battle 2021-11-03T04:00:00Z

He also continued to direct Wagner operas elsewhere. Wolfgang Wagner obituary 2010-03-22T14:24:00Z

“Stow carry-on luggage quickly in the overhead bin so other passengers may pass in the aisle,” says Rachel Wagner, a corporate etiquette consultant in Tulsa. Perspective | In time for the holidays, a seasonal primer on luggage etiquette 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z

Wagner was an integral part of Arturo Toscanini's repertoire from the beginning of his career. Toscanini Conducts Wagner – review 2013-06-20T17:30:00Z

Even now, with 21st-century stage technology, what Wagner makes musically persuasive has struggled to be visually and dramatically so. Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

Though green tomatoes are commonly thought of as unripe, the man who cultivated this variety, Tom Wagner, was fascinated by the idea of producing a green tomato that was meant to be just that. 10 types of tomatoes we aspire to eat every day this summer 2021-07-31T04:00:00Z

And “revolution” is even more apt a term to describe the sea change in music that Wagner wrought. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Will we say the same after 2013's monster anniversary triumvirate of Wagner, Verdi and Britten? The best classical music of 2012: Fiona Maddocks's choice 2012-12-15T20:00:02Z

As infatuation consumed her, van den Heever summoned the tonal amplitude to fill out Wagner’s portrait of a love that is annihilating in its totality. Review: A Singer Returns to Shore at the Met in ‘Dutchman’ 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

Wagner was in the midst of composing his four-opera epic, "The Ring of the Nibelung," when he fled Dresden to avoid arrest for his participation in an unsuccessful revolution. 'Tristan und Isolde' backstory rivals any soap opera 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z

Now the great-granddaughters of Richard Wagner have put their feud behind them because they have a show to roll out, and the world's music critics are watching closely. Wagner sisters end feud cycle for 99th Bayreuth festival 2010-07-23T18:46:00Z

And she is elated to be performing Brünnhilde in the Met production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle, which concludes next season with “Siegfried” and “Götterdämmerung.” Music Review: Diva?s Struggles and Songs, Shared With Candor 2011-07-31T21:55:47Z

Mr. Wagner moved in 1958 to New York, where he became an assistant to one Broadway designer, Ben Edwards, and then another, Oliver Smith. Robin Wagner, Set Designer Who Won Three Tony Awards, Dies at 89 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

The Israel Chamber Orchestra will perform in July in the northern Bavarian town of Bayreuth where Wagner lived the latter part of his life until his death in 1883. Israeli orchestra set to play at Wagner festival 2010-10-05T15:23:00Z

“Moment by Moment” also has other, more revelatory classic cinematic roots—from which Wagner develops distinctive modernistic stylings. Revisiting “Moment by Moment,” Lily Tomlin and John Travolta’s Wrongly Despised 1978 Melodrama 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Scored for an orchestra divided into eight groups spread widely among the playing space, this is funeral music, as surely as any by Beethoven, Liszt, Wagner or Mahler. Sampling the Work of Pierre Boulez 2016-01-06T05:00:00Z

It takes a certain kind of fearlessness to conceive and execute a summer series in which the most conventional offering is Wagner’s “Flying Dutchman.” Critic’s Notebook: Glimmerglass Offers an Ambitious Spread of Works 2013-07-22T22:01:46Z

Under Szell’s baton, an orchestra was a highly polished, precision machine, and in music by Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Dvořák and Wagner, he was untouchable. ‘George Szell: The Complete Columbia Album Collection’ Review: A Maestro’s Time in Cleveland Still Shines 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Looking unperturbed, Ms. Wagner just smiled and waved, her long blond hair flowing. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

What I didn’t realize until later is that this “Meistersinger” is tame — even a little conservative — compared with other Wagner für Kinder productions. Wagner’s Sprawling Operas, Shrunk to Child Size 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Wagner, who died in 1883, wrote anti-Semitic essays and was the favorite composer of many Nazi leaders. Nikitin insists tattoo was not swastika 2012-08-02T01:39:07Z

The next Free Fridays concert, a mix of Strauss and Wagner with the “Ring” cycle veteran Eric Owens, is on Jan. 8. Lincoln Center Works to Attract a Younger Audience 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

Exciting if rarely excitable, at its best this was simply gorgeous Wagner — the lavish lullaby with which Wotan lulls Brünnhilde to sleep being just one lush moment among many. Review: ‘Die Walküre’ Brings the Thunder to Tanglewood 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

As Daugherty had told me, the power of the music from those eight Wagner operas is part of its wit. Wuvwy Music 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

The festival moved to Robert F. Wagner Park last year, after damage from Hurricane Sandy and renovations at Battery Park rendered many of the regular venues unavailable. Battery Dance Festival to Kick Off Aug. 15 2015-07-01T04:00:00Z

“The Enchanted Island” offers an ingenious solution to the Met’s “Baroque problem”: How can a yawning, 3,800-seat arena designed for Wagner and Verdi hospitably host grandly conceived but intimately scaled Baroque opera? ?The Enchanted Island,? a Baroque Mash-Up at the Met 2011-12-22T15:38:19Z

Wagner led the festival for 57 years before stepping down in 2008. Wagner music festival opens in Bayreuth 2010-07-25T19:01:00Z

Bruckner began serious studies in composing, becoming a modernist devoted to the music of Richard Wagner. Why Seattle Symphony’s next program has just one piece 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z

But even if tragedy strikes and Saturday really is the last time Wagner gets to perform, at least we'll have Lorb Shack. The wonder of Wagner 2010-10-18T12:58:00Z

Born on Aug. 30, 1919 in Bayreuth, Wagner studied the trumpet and French horn before being sent to fight on the eastern front early in World War II. Wolfgang Wagner, longtime Bayreuth director, dies 2010-03-22T07:59:00Z

The transformation did allow her to take on new repertoire: Wagner’s Brünnhilde, for example, a role that requires a certain agility on stage. Criticized for her weight, opera star Deborah Voigt speaks up 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

But there was still more than enough evidence of the sweep and dramatic excitement of Nelsons's Wagner conducting. Lohengrin 2010-06-14T21:31:00Z

Other possibilities: simultaneously released films about Liszt and Chopin, Brahms and Schumann, Verdi and Wagner, Ravel and Debussy. Why I give a hoot for competing dead jazz musician movies 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z

I went to Bayreuth, and I saw four Wagner operas in five days! The Pianist Vikingur Olafsson on Why Philip Glass Matters 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

The Met's season began on Monday with "Das Rheingold," the first installment of its $15 million, high-tech new production of Richard Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung," directed by Quebec theater director Robert Lepage. New York opera houses woo new fans with edgier fare 2010-10-03T13:17:00Z

Marsha Music’s narration is Wagner in vernacular, conveyed with both honesty and a playfulness befitting a production that never takes itself too seriously. Think Outside the Opera House, and Inside the Parking Garage 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

Under the aegis of comic opera, Verdi and Wagner seem to have wandered together into a moonlit garden – the same garden where, disguised as the Countess, Mozart's Susanna once sang so alluringly. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z

But the Wagner Idyll still sounded strangely cautious, treated too solemnly for a work that, in Wagnerian terms, is the epitome of charm. Britten Sinfonia/Hewitt – review 2013-01-17T17:48:32Z

Tannhauser was written in the early part of Wagner's compositional development, before he had worked out what a tenor could and could not do. Stuart Skelton: A Life of Grimes 2010-03-18T22:10:00Z

On board were her television star husband, Robert Wagner, the actor Christopher Walken and the boat’s captain. New Doubts in Natalie Wood’s Death: ‘I Don’t Think She Got in the Water by Herself’ 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

Mercifully, Wagner rewards his audience at the end of the third act. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

ON a recent summer evening at Mr. Black, a dance party held every Tuesday at Bardot on North Vine Street, Sean Wagner was towering above the crowd. Some Men Are Dressed to the Nines, the Height of Their Pumps 2011-10-14T23:44:18Z

Brittany Wagner is the academic adviser who helps them maintain the grades required to stay in play. What’s on TV Friday: ‘Last Chance U’ and ‘Tallulah’ 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z

But unlike Mr. Wagner, recognition of his art has not carried far beyond Cleveland. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

And there is special resonance in a great opera company performing this score, so redolent of the music-theater repertory, especially Mahler’s beloved Wagner. Review: The Met Opera Reunites, With Mahler’s ‘Resurrection’ 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wagner formed the band the Bossmen in Michigan, but his first real taste of success came with the Frost, whose albums placed on the Billboard charts. Dick Wagner, rock guitarist who co-wrote many of Alice Cooper’s hits, dies at 71

Besides Beethoven, Franck’s clear reference point in the symphony was Wagner. What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wagner’s stage designs could be elaborate or simple, depending on the story and what the director wanted. Robin Wagner, Set Designer Who Won Three Tony Awards, Dies at 89 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

The Seattle Opera — which, reflecting Jenkins' interests, has made a specialty of Wagner — has worked hard to ensure that next summer's "Ring" cycles will go on as scheduled. Opera companies, notably in Seattle, face money trouble 2012-08-09T00:41:03Z

The emotional entanglements of Wagner and his circle are juxtaposed with the myth of Buddha and Prakriti, the despised untouchable who longs to be united with him. Jonathan Harvey obituary 2012-12-05T21:16:32Z

David Cronenberg’s new film, from a script by Bruce Wagner, was in danger of going straight to video on demand, but it’s also in limited theatrical release. David Cronenberg’s Horror Portrait of Hollywood 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z

And fresh from his performance as Loge in the confounding and mostly terrible new production of Wagner’s “Ring” at Bayreuth was the busy tenor Norbert Ernst, here as Colin, a shepherd. Music Review: Braunfels’s ‘Jeanne d’Arc’ Plays at the Salzburg Festival 2013-08-02T21:51:38Z

“My first year, it was 85 percent standards and 15 percent newer songs,” says Wagner. Walt Wagner, longtime Canlis pianist, is retiring ... and Sub Pop will be there to document it 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

The captain said on NBC's "Today" on Friday that Wagner is to blame for the Oscar-nominated actress' death in the chilly waters of Southern California in November 1981, but didn't offer many specifics. Natalie Wood detectives face conflicting accounts 2011-11-19T12:47:11Z

I was quite impressed by the reaction, she liked Wagner, surprisingly. Composer of the Week marks 70 years 2013-08-02T07:21:46Z

Wagner read widely, and wrote more about ideas than any other composer, and his works yield many of their secrets slowly. Wagner bicentenary: the music is still what matters most 2013-05-21T23:59:01Z

Why not perform works by other composers now and then, both those who influenced Wagner, like Mozart, and those whose music would have been impossible without Wagner’s breakthroughs, like Berg? Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

Here are two quotes about Wagner and music: ‘Wagner’s Music is Bombastic and Boring’ and Other Letters to the Editor 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z

“With the Fura, we also talked about the ‘total show,’ but we had no idea about Wagner then,” he said. From Street Theater to Wagner on the Opera Stage 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

But in another Met tradition, “Das Rheingold,” the first of Wagner’s “Ring” operas, begins in almost complete darkness. Music Review: At Met, the New ?Ring? Is Mostly a Success 2010-09-28T06:30:00Z

A handful of bloggers, opinion writers and at least one politician, a Los Angeles County supervisor, Michael D. Antonovich, denounced the focus on Wagner. Los Angeles Opera Company?s ?Ring? Festival 2010-06-20T23:29:00Z

There were swaths of empty seats at the Metropolitan Opera on Tuesday evening, when Wagner’s sprawling comedy “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” returned to the house after seven years. Review: Wagnerian Comedy Is No Joke in the Met’s ‘Meistersinger’ 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z

But Wagner later wrote that, despite Spontini’s vanity, the meeting only raised his “high esteem for the master.” Two Centuries Later, a Composer Gets a Second Look 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

The film, tipping its hat to Nathanael West’s “The Day of the Locust” and Mr. Wagner’s own novels, imagines Los Angeles as an inferno of narcissism, greed and sexual perversity. Review: David Cronenberg Dissects Hollywood in ‘Maps to the Stars’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

“It was a really fun, eclectic crowd,” Ms. Wagner said later. In San Francisco, the Wizard of Oddities Is In, Sticking His Neck Where It Belongs 2012-07-27T21:34:26Z

But when Wagner’s epics still hold the stage and opening up standard cuts in Handel operas is a healthy pastime, duration is a poor excuse for neglect. Music Review: A Return to Rossini?s Days of Yesteryear 2011-07-10T21:37:45Z

As for songs of love and death: well, I have to admit to a serious weakness for late Romantic harmony, so it's hard to avoid the Liebestod from Wagner's Tristan and Isolde. Music is a vital strand of our social fabric 2012-08-02T19:00:00Z

The imagery of night versus day in “Tristan” also runs through the reign of Ludwig, who made that opera possible while also bankrolling Wagner’s spendthrift habits and extravagant ambition. Visconti’s Operatic Autopsy of German History, Restored Anew 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z

Not Wagner but Mozart will accompany the Bruckner at Carnegie Hall, in the form of six piano concertos and two sinfonias concertante. A Long Party of Concerts to Celebrate Anton Bruckner 2017-01-13T05:00:00Z

The interviews functions as a statement on behalf of the Wagners, thus precluding all interview or comment requests, of which there have been many over the years. 'A short but vibrant life': revisiting the life and death of Natalie Wood 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

He also played restaurant owner Malcolm Argos in the 1970s TV series "Switch" with Robert Wagner and Eddie Albert, and had roles in Mel Brooks' films "High Anxiety" and "History of the World: Part I." Comedian Charlie Callas dead in Las Vegas at 83 2011-01-28T18:09:28Z

The opera company, which splits its season between the Sydney Opera House and the Arts Center Melbourne, dives into an epic staging of Wagner’s “The Ring Cycle” in Melbourne this fall. Opera, Ballet and More Treats for Fall: Global Arts Guide 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Wagner said through a spokesman that his family trusts the sheriff's department to conduct a fair investigation into Wood's death. Natalie Wood detectives face conflicting accounts 2011-11-19T12:47:11Z

Momentary stage pictures and fleeting scenes in Ms. Wagner’s “Meistersinger” revealed a director with an intuitive flair for the stage. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

I was told the Wagner Society had organized it. The Story of a Production That Changed the Metropolitan Opera 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

“With ‘Tosca,’” he added, “I really like watching it. But if I read the text, I think: Give me a camera, I’ll make a movie. But Wagner is a theatrical space I feel comfortable in.” The Met Opera’s ‘Dutchman’ Sails Into Port With a New Star 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z

His most recent book is “Being Wagner: The Triumph of the Will.” What Would Shakespeare Have Made of Donald Trump? 2018-06-20T04:00:00Z

As a composer, he is best remembered for his operas, which take Puccini rather than Wagner or Strauss as a model. D'Albert: Complete Bach Transcriptions/D'Albert: Symphony in F major; Seejungfr?ulein 2010-04-08T22:35:00Z

Dyson gripped the top of a stone bollard; Wagner continued to look away. Rich and poor 2010-03-23T21:00:00Z

In one song, “Rebellion,” there are heavy-handed quotations from Wagner and Strauss operas. Music Review: David Del Tredici and Courtenay Budd at Symphony Space 2012-03-16T21:20:23Z

In Wagner’s operas, sums up Ross, “we see the highest and the lowest impulses of humanity entangled.” Review | If ever there was a moment for Richard Wagner, it is 2020 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

But Schumann’s fourth symphony maintained the standards set in the Salonen piece, from the early, melting horn chords that sounded as if they were summoning the future, and Wagner. A maverick soloist offers a classic new work 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

The Bayreuth Festival still retains its mystical air, even if it is more open under the direction of the composer’s great-granddaughter Katharina Wagner, with cinema screenings, commissioning of new operas and increasingly accessible tickets. In a Wagnerian Whirlwind, One Conductor Breaks Through 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

Last season came the premiere of Robert Lepage’s production of Wagner’s “Rheingold,” which is still being argued over, as audiences await the last two installments of the complete “Ring” cycle this season. The Metropolitan Opera Performs Donizetti?s ?Anna Bolena? 2011-09-27T12:51:23Z

They went on to perform included music by Wagner, Gershwin and Dvorak as well as a Korean folk song. The stars whose gigs courted controversy 2013-07-01T11:12:52Z

That Wagner work, though never quoted, pulses in spirit throughout this finale, “wild and wonderful” in Steinberg’s words. Music Review: Embracing the Ambiguity of Mahler?s Seventh 2011-02-24T23:27:09Z

The company announced on Tuesday that it would present the complete Wagner “Ring” cycle that it had commissioned with the San Francisco Opera but suspended because of money problems. ArtsBeat: Washington National Opera to Present 'Ring' Cycle in 2016 2012-01-10T21:23:36Z

The tradition wound down later in the 19th century, she said, as composers like Verdi and Wagner fought for more artistic control, and music publishers became more powerful. The Metropolitan Opera Revives ‘The Enchanted Island’ 2014-02-24T23:05:14Z

Wagner has three children under 6, so he keeps children’s dosages and liquid medicines on hand. Experts offer advice on how to create a well-stocked home first-aid kit 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

In one conversation with Wired, Wagner suggests the problem might be with viewers’ television settings and not with the actual cinematography of the show. "Game of Thrones" cinematographer defends Battle of Winterfell against complaints it’s too dark 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

After a somewhat tentative start, Wagner's performance gained in vocal strength and dramatic confidence over the three acts. 'Hercules': Lyric Opera season closes on spectacular note 2011-03-06T18:37:00Z

When the State Opera, where Mr. Petrenko is finishing an acclaimed period as music director, wanted a portrait of him, it went with a video installation that showed only his hands, conducting Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung.” The Berlin Philharmonic’s Anti-Anti-Maestro 2019-08-26T04:00:00Z

In later years, Wagner dismissed Saint-Saëns’ own music as lacking inspiration, while Saint-Saëns attacked Wagner in print as a thinker and dramatist obsessed with “the German preoccupation with going beyond reality.” Seattle Symphony ends season with Wagner, Saint-Saëns 2013-06-25T18:30:10Z

James Levine, the Met’s music director, is back in the pit, conducting his first Wagner since he was sidelined by a spinal injury. James Morris’s Unexpected Return to ‘Meistersinger’ 2014-12-15T05:00:00Z

Wagner also believes “Parasite” winning best picture at the 2020 Academy Awards increased interest in Korean cinema. Not just K-pop: Korean TV shows gaining US popularity 2021-08-20T04:00:00Z

When she returns next season, it will be characteristically in Wagner, in a relatively minor role as Waltraute in “Götterdämmerung,” which by then she will have been singing, on and off, for 34 years. Keep Going, Keep Going, Even at the Met 2011-04-03T02:14:50Z

That Wagner wasn’t there himself was no doubt all part of the game. Review: ‘Meistersinger,’ Wagner’s Playful Paean to Culture, in London 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

What other Wagner operas are you eager to direct? Bayreuth’s First American Director Made Wagner a Feminist. What Now? 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

Our reviewer, Maud Newton, praised the book, writing, “It’s the concreteness of Wagner’s own search, in all its messy detail and lingering uncertainties, that underscores our interconnectedness.” New in Paperback: ‘King Zeno,’ ‘The Monk of Mokha’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

For whodunit types, there is an exhibit about the infamous death of Natalie Wood, wife of Robert Wagner, at Two Harbors. California’s laid-back Catalina Island is worth more than a day trip 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z

The danger is that these pieces become over-familiar and lose their impact if they continue to be played only in an all-purpose, generic early-to-mid-20th-century style that’s no different than Wagner or Strauss. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

I have a set of Wagner Ware Magnalite pots that I received as a wedding gift 48 years ago. How to clean an antique basket 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z

In Wagner the ideas are carried on and in the music, which is inseparable from the drama. Wagner bicentenary: the music is still what matters most 2013-05-21T23:59:01Z

Starting out on classical piano at age 6, Wagner grew up hearing jazz records by pianist Art Tatum and cornetist Bix Beiderbecke, thanks to his father, who led a dance band in Omaha, Neb. Walt Wagner, longtime Canlis pianist, is retiring ... and Sub Pop will be there to document it 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

The Brazilian actor Wagner Moura gained 40 pounds and learned Spanish to play Escobar in the show, which charts the rise of the Medellín cartel. What to Do This Weekend 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z

Mr. Lepage’s conceptual vision had a natural foundation in Wagner’s own, bringing as it did a single design scheme to a series of operas composed as a unity. Spidey Syndrome Invades the Opera 2011-05-21T23:00:26Z

Thus, apart from “Lohengrin,” there is no other Wagner, most of that oeuvre having been previously released. A Maestro?s Four-Decade Evolution 2010-12-31T15:49:56Z

“It will be really interactive, and that's going to be the fun part of it,” Peoples Wagner said. High schoolers celebrate with virtual proms amid coronavirus pandemic 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z

Still, fine music making drove this rich evening of Wagner. Music Review: Hans Neuenfels Gathers Rats in ?Lohengrin? 2010-08-04T22:14:00Z

Her sister, Natalie Wood, had left her first husband, Robert Wagner, after a marital betrayal, Lana says she told her. Lana Wood, Natalie’s Little Sister, Has Plenty to Say 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

Arriving in Pyongyang in February 2008, the orchestra played a program of Wagner, Dvorak and Gershwin under the baton of Lorin Maazel; the performance, which the countess attended, was televised around the world. Yoko Nagae Ceschina, Countess and Fairy Godmother to the Arts, Dies at 82 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z

He plans to return to the Met in January for the new production of Richard Wagner's "Gotterdammerung." New York's Met loses James Levine to back injury 2011-09-06T21:38:55Z

The Wagner was a substitute for Strauss's Four Last Songs that went unexplained, though perhaps the Strauss would have overemphasised a certain valedictory theme that seemed to run through the first half. William Lyne birthday gala – review 2012-11-30T17:56:42Z

Visiting Wagner town is bad enough, say the Wagner-haters back in Israel, but to play his music is beyond the pale. Dance with the devil 2011-07-26T08:01:01Z

Even the Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, Germany, has yet to present it. Music Review: Wagner?s ?Rienzi? From Opera Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-02-01T00:07:03Z

There is still an interesting discussion to be had over the content of his operas, but what can be discounted is the direct connection between Wagner and Hitler that some seek to draw. Dance with the devil 2011-07-26T08:01:01Z

Verdi and Wagner, Schweitzer reminds us, “both born in 1813, have been pitted against each other in posterity like boxers vying for a trophy of aesthetic dominance.” How ‘A Mad Love’ of Opera Has Played Out From 17th-Century Mantua to 21st-Century New York 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

For close listeners, there are flashes of the future Wagner. Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

“I always saw it as a ghost play, a kind of fever dream,” Wagner said. Bruce Wagner’s ‘Maps to the Stars’ shows dark side of sunny Hollywood 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

“We discovered locations where the excitement was high but the laughter was low,” Wagner said. Tennessee tourism department enlists kids to rate the state’s attractions 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

“Mozart was Bryn’s present, and Wagner was his future,” Mr. Epstein said recently in New York. A Hungry Singer, Consuming His Roles 2011-04-17T00:31:06Z

Yet, even in subdued passages, whether posing questions as the clueless title character of Wagner’s “Parsifal” or singing tender phrases of a Schubert song, Mr. Vickers’s voice had penetrating body and depth. Jon Vickers, Opera Star Known for His Raw Power and Intensity, Dies at 88 2015-07-12T04:00:00Z

Wagner was a “technician of emotions,” he said, who orchestrated collective experiences of feeling that embedded his ideas in his art. Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

When a director sets Wagner’s “Ring” cycle at, say, the dawn of industrialization, it illuminates new aspects of a deep, ambiguous work. ‘La Bohème’: Should Opera’s Most Beloved Classic Be Changed? 2017-10-27T04:00:00Z

“I said yes to this incredible challenge for the reason that I am passionate about the art form we’re doing,” he said before leading them in Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer,” which opens on April 25. Yannick Nézet-Séguin Will Shake Things Up at the Met Opera 2017-03-31T04:00:00Z

Three days after the hearing, the Maneshes and Mr. Momtazi petitioned a judge for a temporary restraining order against Mr. Wagner. Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Wagner takes questions about her family's past Nazi links unflinchingly. Wagner descendant heads a music fest -- Beethoven, not Bayreuth 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

Edward Varney is the architect who designed the midcentury-modern Hotel Valley Ho in 1956, which then attracted celebrities — among them Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner — seeking to slip the limelight of Hollywood. 36 Hours in Scottsdale 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z

“If you do get symptoms, take the recommended precautions until you can see a doctor and get tested,” Wagner said. Experts offer advice on how to create a well-stocked home first-aid kit 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

The desolate piano music from “Tristan and Isolde,” by Saint Laurent’s favorite composer Wagner, was played by François-Frédéric Guy, while the mezzo-soprano Sophie Koch later joined him in another musical tribute. A Memorial to Yves Saint Laurent, 5 Years After His Death 2013-06-11T16:21:24Z

While studying at the Central School of Art and Design in London, he visited the Bayreuth festival in Germany, absorbing Wieland Wagner's minimalist opera productions. David Myerscough-Jones obituary 2010-05-04T18:01:00Z

That show, “Richard Wagner and the Nationalization of Feeling,” opens April 9 and runs through September. Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Unlike the understated Wagner, Schumann's Piano Concerto in A minor grabbed everyone by the throat with its famously dramatic opening chords. Review: A shimmering night of German romantic classics at the symphony 2010-05-14T16:54:00Z

Rats notwithstanding, Wagner is the biggest Pied Piper of them all. Bayreuth festival: Lohengrin 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

But then Wagner neither looks nor behaves as you might imagine the head of one of the world's most talked-about cultural institutions to, or even the great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner. The battle for?Bayreuth 2010-08-23T20:46:00Z

Like Wagner he gives each of his characters leitmotifs, which recur and recur in their streams of thought. George R. R. Martin's Dance with Dragons: A Masterpiece Worthy of Tolkien 2011-07-07T03:45:00Z

Henze achieves some dazzling effects with a chamber orchestra of two dozen players, heavy on percussion and brass - including the rare use of a Wagner tuba. Philly offers US premiere of Henze's 'Phaedra' 2011-06-05T13:46:08Z

Clark and Wagner, a married couple who previously taught art history at the University of California, are the Tate's nifty solution to a rather awkward problem. LS Lowry: the people's artist comes in from the cold 2013-06-08T23:05:10Z

In the same years, Nilsson was reaching her peak; she had wisely followed a more gradual path of development, and did not take up Wagner until the late nineteen-forties. A Tale of Two Sopranos: Astrid Varnay and Birgit Nilsson 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

In this movie and Wagner's other writings, the personal assistant is the authentic grisly image of modern Hollywood. Cannes 2014 review: Maps to the Stars - Hollywood dreams turn queasy in David Cronenberg's brilliant nightmare 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

On a more scholarly level, Seattle Opera presents its signature event: the “Ring” Symposia, which brings together scholars and thinkers to examine the artistic, historical, and philosophical aspects of Wagner and his “Ring.” How to get even more out of Seattle Opera’s ‘Ring’ cycle 2013-07-25T22:42:24Z

Daniele Gatti, a visionary in Mahler, comes to town in January with his new orchestra, the storied Royal Concertgebouw: They assay the First, an evening that follows a foray into Wagner and Bruckner. What to Look Forward to in the Fall Classical Music Season 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z

Dramatist and music critic George Bernard Shaw was among those who, a century later, viewed Gluck as a direct precursor to another German opera innovator, composer Richard Wagner. Seattle Opera's 'Orpheus' is a love story for all time 2012-02-15T23:05:03Z

Entranced by the "Tristan" legend and its love-triangle theme, Wagner poured his energy into creating an opera that was at first considered so challenging as to be impossible to perform. 'Tristan und Isolde' backstory rivals any soap opera 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z

Tannhäuser It's not exactly seasonal, but the last new production of the year brings Wagner's "grand romantic opera" back into the Covent Garden repertory. The best classical concerts for Christmas 2010 2010-11-22T08:00:00Z

He continues to be one of the most sought-after tenors with the stamina and heft for Wagner and the ardent warmth for Italian opera. Review: Jonas Kaufmann Dials Up the Swoon Factor 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z

Mr. Vogt has been extremely effective as Wagner’s Lohengrin, a role that works well with his otherworldly voice and gallant looks, complete with long blond hair. Opera Review: ‘Damnation de Faust,’ Staged by Christian Spuck in Berlin 2014-02-24T16:23:16Z

Some of Wagner’s operas — his 10 major works are the only ones presented by the 142-year-old Bayreuth Festival — run well beyond four hours. Trade Secrets From the Wagner Festival Whisperer 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

This week's backstage gossip Today, let's concentrate on Wagner. The X Factor Files: Stuart Heritage's X Factor briefing 2010-11-19T12:42:00Z

And, whether anybody knows it or not, Wagner is a vital component of this year's X Factor — he's already spawned his own Stephen Fry YouTube tribute video. The wonder of Wagner 2010-10-18T12:58:00Z

An earlier version of the third act — a conflation of male voices selling cars, referring to Wagner and describing the psychology of a children’s game — was dispensed with. Music Review: ?That Morning Thing? at the Kitchen for Performa 11 - Review 2011-11-23T23:38:54Z

Mahler seized on the Wagner for its heady mix of stately march music, industrious counterpoint, soaring chorale tunes and good-humored busyness. Music Review: Embracing the Ambiguity of Mahler?s Seventh 2011-02-24T23:27:09Z

Now he’s back for another Wagner opera with a production dominated by a giant eye, a red dress, and 47 hanging ropes. Met opera gets visionary new “Dutchman” 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

The tickets can be secured in advance, and they disappear, Katharina Wagner said in an interview, as soon as they go online. Music: ?Tannh?user? for the Tenderhearted at Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-06T22:06:00Z

The Wagner staging, originally a coproduction with the Paris Opera, was so successful that the Met and La Scala quickly made deals to bring it to their stages, too. On the Way to the Met, a ‘Meistersinger’ Is Stranded in Europe 2016-08-12T04:00:00Z

It takes commendable chutzpah to use this event as a platform for a five-hour Wagner opera — particularly in a dark and gritty production. For its most glittering evening, the Met opts for a dark ‘Tristan.’ Good for them. 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z

Most of all, though, it would be great to see Brazilian bongo giant Wagner in the film. Let's help One Direction make a film that isn't all over the place 2012-06-07T17:12:57Z

The Israel Chamber Orchestra is right as well as brave to take on its critics at home: only if we play Wagner can we engage with the sometimes disturbing complexities of his art. Dance with the devil 2011-07-26T08:01:01Z

The Bayreuth Festival in Germany, which Richard Wagner conceived to stage his operas, has a reputation for backstage drama that rivals its music dramas, and this year is no different. More Operatic Drama at Bayreuth as Andris Nelsons Pulls Out 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

Fresh touches introduced by the sisters will include a new production of Lohengrin, in which, Katharina Wagner has let slip, rats will be let loose on a set designed to resemble an animal research laboratory. Wagner sisters end feud cycle for 99th Bayreuth festival 2010-07-23T18:46:00Z

In “The Shepherd’s Horn” Richard Wagner takes a gondola ride on a foggy Venice night. ‘Roget’s Ilusion’: wheels within wheels, words within words 2014-05-07T20:16:34Z

There was a time when that metaphor was treated as at least somewhat expendable; in deference to singers’ stamina, Wagner’s longest disquisition on the philosophical metaphor, in Act II, was traditionally cut. Review: A ‘Tristan und Isolde’ Plays Out in Shadows and Light 2022-07-29T04:00:00Z

Silja's 62-year career is marked by the thrill of her modern acting, plus a voice that carries a tradition reaching back to the late Wieland Wagner, the composer's relative and her real-life soul mate. Opera awards go to Peter Sellars and 4 singers 2012-04-30T09:46:04Z

Welsh National Opera is building its summer season around the Wagner bicentenary. Lohengrin – review 2013-05-24T16:47:29Z

He wanted to explore how he could frame the low notes of the instrument, which has a larger range now than in Wagner’s time. Music Review: Talk Frames Performance of Recent Works 2011-06-21T21:12:01Z

The machine imposes itself and distracts us from Wagner’s music drama. Critic?s Notebook: Peter Gelb on Wagner?s ?Ring? Cycle at Met Opera 2012-04-03T18:45:55Z

It opened with Wagner's Faust Overture and ended with Liszt's Faust Symphony, both inspired by Goethe's poetic drama. LPO/Jurowski 2010-05-03T21:45:00Z

Vivier called “Kopernikus” a mystic tale, and it revolves around a Hindu deity and summons up such figures from Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” and Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde,” operas Sellars has notably staged. Peter Sellars jump-starts the conversation at the Ojai Music Festival 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z

His father, who had immigrated from Denmark, was a maritime engineer and, for a time, the keeper of two lighthouses where the Wagners lived until Robin was 10. Robin Wagner, Set Designer Who Won Three Tony Awards, Dies at 89 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

"Wolfgang Wagner devoted his entire life to the legacy of his famous grandfather," the festival said in a statement after his death on Sunday. Wagner's grandson dies at age 90 2010-03-22T17:09:00Z

Wagner’s sprawling, dramaturgically imperfect work — a multigenerational power struggle among gods, creatures and men — has been interpretive fodder for nearly 150 years. Review: Berlin Takes Wagner’s Approach to Staging the ‘Ring’ 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

Wagner Dream will be staged at Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, on 6-7 June, with a performance in Birmingham on 12 June. Opera to revive dead Asian language 2013-05-10T11:56:53Z

The “Siegfried” is the third installment of the Met’s new “Ring” cycle, an enormous and expensive undertaking, and Wagner’s cycle is more closely associated with Mr. Levine than with most other living conductors. James Levine Withdraws From Met?s Fall Season 2011-09-07T04:32:44Z

This affair – almost certainly unconsummated – prompted Wagner's own searching for the musical and dramatic expression of a love that was untrammelled by social convention, that was at once sensual and spiritual, erotic and intellectual. Tristan und Isolde – Wagner's love supreme 2012-12-20T18:00:01Z

As a playful acknowledgment of their interracial relationship — Mr. Sullivan is Black and Ms. Wagner is white — they chose a black-and-white theme for the wedding. Winning With Bingo, and Then Bringing Her the Stars 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

In a way, Mr. Wagner and his stiletto-wearing cohorts are repeating history. Some Men Are Dressed to the Nines, the Height of Their Pumps 2011-10-14T23:44:18Z

Even today, you won’t hear Wagner’s famous Bridal Chorus at many Jewish weddings. R. Kelly: Does Liking His Album Mean You’ve Forgotten his Child Porn Charges? 2013-12-17T21:06:10Z

The overall performance of Wagner’s miraculous opera was excellent, especially the conducting of James Levine, which had greater focus and energy than on opening night. Volle Takes His Turn in ‘Die Meistersinger’ 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z

It can be difficult to tell the good guys from the bad in “Der Ring des Nibelungen,” Wagner’s four-opera saga of greed and mistakes. The Breakout Star of the Met Opera’s ‘Ring’ 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z

Wood drowned after spending several hours drinking on Catalina Island and a yacht with husband Robert Wagner, fellow actor Christopher Walken and the ship's captain. Detectives taking new look at Natalie Wood's death 2011-11-18T12:28:11Z

As of now Mr. Levine, who turned 67 last month, is to conduct the new production of Wagner’s “Rheingold,” which opens the Met’s season on Sept. Music Review: Michael Tilson Thomas Opens Tanglewood 2010-07-11T22:38:00Z

At the urging of preservationists, though, Ramapo bought the house from Mr. Wagner; at the time, Mr. St. Lawrence said that saving it was “a cultural imperative.” Efforts to Preserve Henry Varnum Poor’s House and Its History Have Stalled 2015-08-14T04:00:00Z

But Lucerne is married to Brahms’s antipode, Wagner. ArtsBeat: Lucerne, a Wagner City, Engages in Yearlong Affair With Brahms 2011-04-13T15:18:04Z

He worried, too, that the reservoir he built might get contaminated if Mr. Wagner used pesticides or solvents. Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Even Wagner, no fan of Mendelssohn’s, admired the Romantic, poetic qualities of this symphony. Music Review: On a Cold Night, Bending the Rules of Harmony 2010-12-14T06:15:15Z

The cinematography, by Fabian Wagner, is dark, as though the whole movie were filmed in the bat cave, infected with Bruce Wayne’s brooding. ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’ Review: Supersized, Super Hopeless 2021-03-15T04:00:00Z

In the magazine, Davern is quoted as saying that Wood and Wagner fought in their cabin before the actress went missing. Detectives taking new look at Natalie Wood's death 2011-11-18T12:28:11Z

As in “Lohengrin,” Wagner interrogates the limits of charisma and the burden of leadership, and begins to deal in the ambiguity and complication that would course through his canonical works. Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

A little before the match started at 11am, the two boys would meet the Wagner party at the Grace Gates. Rich and poor 2010-03-23T21:00:00Z

Wagner was a nasty guy who transcended himself in his works. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Hailing Opera's Shakespeare, and Its Proust 2011-01-17T12:00:40Z

That ’70s Show: Jack Wagner, however, has clearly been practicing his moves in the mirrored ceiling of his bedroom because he has dramatically improved. Dancing with the Stars Watch: The Last Dance 2012-05-23T12:00:48Z

Though the money was good and he learned a lot — “those guys could really think on their feet,” Wagner recalls — Wagner eventually came home. Walt Wagner, longtime Canlis pianist, is retiring ... and Sub Pop will be there to document it 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

“It is irrational and interferes with the business of presenting artistic events,” said Nathalie Wagner, president of the Wagner Society of New York and a longtime Opera News subscriber. Opera News Will Stop Reviewing Metropolitan Opera 2012-05-22T03:06:11Z

The first exhibition dedicated to a composer at Germany’s national history museum, it explores the relationship between Wagner’s politics and his artistic output and influence. Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

That Adagio, moving as it is, became something of a memorial to Wagner, who died in 1883, as Bruckner was nearing completion of the symphony. Music Review: Zubin Mehta, Israel Philharmonic, Collegiate Chorale at Salzburg 2012-07-27T21:23:47Z

Philharmonic officials met with the mayor, Robert F. Wagner, to discuss outdoor concerts in Manhattan, and he recommended expanding to the other boroughs. Celebrating 50 Years of New York Philharmonic Outdoor Concerts 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z

Wagner, the self-styled musical redeemer par excellence, made drastic changes to this tale in order to affect his hero's salvation. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z

“I rushed around to buy an outfit and get my hair done,” said Ms. Peoples Wagner, who wore a floral Prada dress. Lindsay Peoples Wagner on Her First Year as Editor of Teen Vogue 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z

One of the Labour whips has a taste for Wagner. This House recalls the years when Britain really was a nation in crisis 2012-10-13T23:06:33Z

Only by 1865, with its premiere in Munich, had the musicians caught up with Wagner and his “Tristan”. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Though Furtwängler and the great Flagstad are captured late in their careers, for authority and sensitivity, as a conductor and a Wagner soprano, they are unmatched. Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z

The Wagner set the right mood for the premiere of Mr. Adès’s “Polaris: Voyage for Orchestra,” which was commissioned by the New World Symphony and other orchestras, including the New York Philharmonic. Music Review: A Voyage of Discovery As a New Hall Sets Sail 2011-01-27T20:55:02Z

Mr. Ollé is a self-taught director who says his knowledge of Wagner comes from browsing the internet, rather than from reading the composer’s own writings and musical scores. From Street Theater to Wagner on the Opera Stage 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

After reading the Something Awful thread, a film student at the University of Alabama, Troy Wagner, and his friend, Joseph DeLage, create the first Slender Man web series: “Marble Hornets.” How Slender Man Became a Legend 2018-08-15T04:00:00Z

Everything that you can cover in later Romantic music — you can hide much more in Wagner — you can’t with Mozart. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

Shifting to nomadic performances during the Gasteig renovation — as the New York Philharmonic is doing while its Lincoln Center home, David Geffen Hall, is overhauled this season — was not feasible here, Wagner said. A Temporary Concert Hall Hopes for a Permanent Audience 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

In a lawsuit she filed, she charged Mr. Wagner with “mental cruelties.” New Doubts in Natalie Wood’s Death: ‘I Don’t Think She Got in the Water by Herself’ 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

It's a perfect way to experience it – you can see exactly what Wagner had in mind. The battle for?Bayreuth 2010-08-23T20:46:00Z

Bach wouldn’t do, Wagner was too heavy, Beethoven too dramatic, so I chose the “Liebesleid,” a salon trifle by the great violinist Fritz Kreisler. Perspective | ‘Counterpoint: A Memoir of Bach and Mourning’: A son escapes into music after his mother’s death 2020-02-10T05:00:00Z

Q: The music world is celebrating the 200th birthdays this year of two major opera composers, Richard Wagner and Giuseppe Verdi. A Minute With:-Royal Opera's Pappano: "No idea I'd be a conductor" 2013-10-16T13:02:56Z

There’s opera here, too, with an April 12 concert comprising Act II of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde.” 22 Musicals, Plays, Concerts, Dances and Festivals You Can’t Miss This Spring 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z

Mr. Wagner, who turns 88 next week, has not spoken to investigators since they reopened the case but has maintained that Ms. Wood’s death was an accident. New Doubts in Natalie Wood’s Death: ‘I Don’t Think She Got in the Water by Herself’ 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

However, “Thrones” cinematographer Fabian Wagner is defending his work in various new interviews. "Game of Thrones" cinematographer defends Battle of Winterfell against complaints it’s too dark 2019-04-30T04:00:00Z

R. J. Wagner’s memoir on Hollywood, surprisingly very moving. Bette Midler Is Still in the Thrall of 19th-Century Novelists 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

During a tour of the music library at the Seattle Opera’s South Lake Union offices, Cabaniss opens the case of one of the company’s four Wagner tubas to check whether it has been appropriately oiled. Seattle Opera’s first librarian is a passionate millennial 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z

Jordan astutely stopped for intermission here, for Wagner broke off composition of his “Ring” at exactly this spot, resuming 12 years later. A Wagner 'Ring' sampler: Short, but still so much to savor 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z

In 1851 Wagner published a book, Opera and Drama, in which he struggled to make critical and historical sense of the shifts and changes taking place within his own musical and theatrical imagination. Wagner: beauty in the eye of the beholder 2011-07-14T15:01:01Z

Mr. Wagner pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count involving filing a false business tax return to the city. At the Whitney, Thea and Ethan Wagner Show the Fruits of Prescient Collecting 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Wagner was no fan of industrialisation: his depiction, to the sound of 18 anvils, of Alberich’s enslaved dwarves mining more gold, is terrifying. Getting into Valhalla 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Soap star Jack Wagner and partner were eliminated instead. For DeGraw, life is 'Sweeter' off the dance floor 2012-04-04T18:53:09Z

But only time will tell if the couple’s choices are, as Mr. Wagner puts it, “for better or worse.” Wagner Collection at the Whitney, 25 Years of Astute Buying 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z

Now and then, Mr. Castorf had me thinking freshly about dark or foolish aspects to Wagner’s characters. At Bayreuth, Boos and Dropped Jaws 2013-08-01T10:42:00Z

That the soloist was Susan Bullock, now one of the world's top Wagner singers, who will sing the same role at Covent Garden next season, made it all the more extraordinary. Die Walk?re; Siegfried; BBC Proms 23, 26 & 27 ? review 2011-08-06T23:06:26Z

But on this night he was deeply affecting as Wagner’s clueless youth, who chances upon the sanctuary of the desolate knights of the Holy Grail and is baffled by their sacred rituals. Review: A Conductor Delivers a Magnificent ‘Parsifal’ at the Met 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

Mozart especially looms over “Die Feen,” composed when Wagner was 20 years old. Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

“Cotton is so water intensive,” said Travis Wagner, an environmental science professor at the University of Maine. The Cotton Tote Crisis 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z

It was also true that Hitler's love of Wagner – not shared by that many of his henchmen – guaranteed the Bayreuth festival unprecedented security. Wolfgang Wagner obituary 2010-03-22T14:24:00Z

A new production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle at the Berlin State Opera, featuring the eminent conductor Daniel Barenboim, was one of the most highly anticipated events on the classical music calendar this season. Daniel Barenboim, Star Conductor, Withdraws from ‘Ring’ Cycle in Berlin 2022-08-30T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wagner is, like most satirists, a savage moralist, and he marvels at the callous cruelty of his carefully groomed creatures. Review: David Cronenberg Dissects Hollywood in ‘Maps to the Stars’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Recoil at the sight of Wagner's hair blocking the plughole! Recreated rock residences ? a wish list 2010-12-04T00:07:00Z

The duo of Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca collaborate on films and videos that look at Brazilian cultural traditions, often mixing documentary and fictional elements. At Museums, a Mix of Old and New 2022-04-27T04:00:00Z

Wagner created strong, mythical characters for “Dutchman” and gave them plenty of vocal challenges. Seattle Opera’s ‘Flying Dutchman’ unleashes gloriously perfect storm 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z

He was correct to be proud of what he had achieved: an imposing operatic spectacle that avoids Meyerbeer’s bloated heroics and Massenet’s often fussy decorations, not to mention the grand-opera overkill that smothers Wagner’s “Rienzi.” ‘Saint-Saëns and His World’ at Bard 2012-07-20T17:08:16Z

Wagner was an anti-Semitic, egomaniacal jerk who transcended himself in his art. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

Wagner remains a controversial figure in Germany because of his anti-Semitic views. Nazi-themed opera canceled in Germany 2013-05-09T11:29:09Z

Five singers portrayed the 30 characters, including most of those who appear in Wagner’s original and a few additions, like some rangers and busybodies. Review: ‘Das Barbecü’ Is Wagner’s ‘Ring’ With a Side of Brisket 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

Roth conducts sympathetically and Vanessa Wagner is a suitably skittish soloist in Dubois's Second Piano Concerto, from 1897; the sleeve scrupulously documents the orchestra and the late 19th-century instruments they play. Dubois: Piano Concerto No 2; Dixtuor; Ouverture de Frithiof – review 2012-06-14T21:25:01Z

Focus will be on the 200th anniversary of the births of Verdi and Wagner in 1813. Met abandons Bondy `Rigoletto' for Vegas version 2012-02-24T00:15:09Z

Wagner's former wife, "West Side Story" actress Natalie Wood, drowned in 1981 at the age of 43. Book Talk: Actor Robert Wagner on his long career in Hollywood 2014-04-10T09:05:27Z

Josh Spero, author of Second Hand Stories and editor of Spear's Magazine, and the author Erica Wagner, a former literary editor at the Times newspaper, mulled over the question of new tech and old books. Is technology killing old loved books? 2014-10-25T04:00:00Z

The Guild 45th will screen the Royal Opera House’s production of the Wagner opera “Parsifal” at 5 p.m. Cats, classics and a ‘Thin Man’ celebration 2014-01-02T23:00:23Z

And what of Wagner, whose music dramas he used to write about with such insight and flair? Music: Will Crutchfield, Preaching the Gospel of Bel Canto 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z

It's such an obvious role for Terfel, one of the truly great Wagner singers of our time, that Wagnerians have hardly been able to wait. This week's new live music 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

Wagner’s story is reset deep in the heart of Texas, with Wotan as a powerful rancher, Siegfried as a guitar-strumming cowboy, and Brünnhilde as a sassy cowgirl. Review: ‘Das Barbecü’ Is Wagner’s ‘Ring’ With a Side of Brisket 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

But as a composer, he kept his nose deep in Wagner’s pharmacopoeia. Music Review: Strauss’s ‘Feuersnot’ via Leon Botstein at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-18T22:30:36Z

Wagner‘s “The Flying Dutchman” came in 24th in a list of the 25 most popular operas. How ‘A Mad Love’ of Opera Has Played Out From 17th-Century Mantua to 21st-Century New York 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

The vast majority of the 19th century's most important conductors were also its composers: Mendelssohn, who revived Bach's St Matthew Passion for audiences in Leipzig, Berlioz, Weber, Liszt, and, above all, Wagner. Mystery of the maestros: what are conductors for? 2012-06-01T21:55:13Z

Half Straddle turned the space into a playing field, with bleachers, for “In the Pony Palace/Football”; Performance Lab 115 restaged Wagner’s “Ring” Cycle as an epic wrestling match. Bushwick Starr, a Humble Space With Bold Works 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z

Wagner was at the premiere of the work, in the Conservatoire Hall, on 24 November 1839. Forgotten Berlioz: Rom?o et Juliette 2012-02-09T23:00:02Z

Müller applied to emigrate on political grounds with her then husband, a writer named Richard Wagner. Herta Müller: a life in books 2012-11-30T22:55:01Z

Like Wagner, in this work Saint-Saëns believed that more is better, including the organ and even two pianists as part of the orchestration. At SSO, remarkable Wagner, majestic Saint-Saëns 2013-06-28T19:54:33Z

“I’ve seen singers in their dressing rooms after Wagner performances and you want to call the ambulance,” he said. A Tenor’s Secrets to ‘Lohengrin’: Golf and a Blunt Spouse 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

But the Israel Chamber Orchestra is going further, performing Wagner's Siegfried Idyll, the lyrical 20-minute symphonic piece he wrote for his wife Cosima. Dance with the devil 2011-07-26T08:01:01Z

Even though Wagner died half a century before Hitler rose to power, the Nazi dictator was a fervent admirer and drew on the composer's writings in his own theories on Germanic racial purity. Israeli orchestra confronts taboo at Wagner shrine 2011-07-24T17:01:54Z

That’s fitting for Davis, 71, who as an undergraduate at Yale University in the late 1960s and early ’70s, studied opera scores by Wagner, Berg and Strauss — but also attended concerts by cutting-edge jazz artists. ‘It’s Anthony’s Time’: A Composer Gets His Due 2022-05-12T04:00:00Z

It was the festival's first complete Ring in a single season, as well as Barenboim's first Wagner in the UK. Proms 14 & 15: Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2013-07-27T23:07:04Z

Actor Jack Wagner, also a former champion of the event, made a strong push Sunday with 22 points to finish fourth, his 19th top-10 finish in the event. Mark Rypien wins American Century title 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

The recording’s profound heart is Liszt’s transmutation of Wagner, in Mr. Levit’s hands a miracle of control and consolation. The 25 Best Classical Music Tracks of 2018 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z

He said that, after Wood disappeared, Wagner told him he suspected she had gone to shore in a rubber boat. Review of Natalie Wood's death ignites curiosity 2011-11-19T05:26:17Z

During a short break from comic strip writing early on in his career, Wagner took a job in the Scottish Highlands. Comic lawman Dredd's Scots roots 2012-08-14T05:37:40Z

Wagner and Walken, who continued successful film and television careers after the tragedy, said the same. Natalie Wood: drowning reclassified by US coroner 2013-01-14T21:09:00Z

The forces for the Wagner and Copland pieces — each performed in its original version, using 13 players — fitted comfortably on the stage here. Music Review: Summery Sounds of a New Hall in Rockport, Mass. 2010-06-11T22:45:00Z

Phil, as well as his enormous growth as an opera composer since “Nixon,” for revealing many unexpected shadings and complexities, and making the Richard Strauss/Wagner parody in Act II blossom voluptuously. L.A. Phil delivers a dazzling reimagining of 'Nixon in China' 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z

Ms. Wagner said she took up triathlons as she neared 50 a few years ago and was using this tour in part to train for her third Ironman. 4,000 Miles, Seven Countries: An African Adventure on Two Wheels 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

But it would be extraordinary if Herheim was not soon signed up to direct the rest of the Wagner canon. Stefan Herheim's Wagner revolution 2010-04-29T15:23:00Z

In that light, the use of Wagner as example made perfect sense. The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

According to Wagner's account, he complained that Wood's recent movie, "Brainstorm," had taken his wife from him, prompting Walken, her co-star in the film, to respond that that was an actor's life. Review of Natalie Wood's death ignites curiosity 2011-11-19T05:26:17Z

State regulations required the Wagners to install cameras near gates and fences, along with motion sensors and alarms. Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

“Wagner has beautiful moments,” Rossini supposedly said, “but bad quarters of an hour.” Theater Review: ‘Golden Age,’ by Terrence McNally, at City Center 2012-12-05T04:50:08Z

After discussing “Lohengrin,” we talked about what’s next at home in the United States and what other Wagner operas he might stage in the future. Bayreuth’s First American Director Made Wagner a Feminist. What Now? 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

And let’s start with the dynamic duo of 19th century opera, Verdi and Wagner. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Hailing Opera's Shakespeare, and Its Proust 2011-01-17T12:00:40Z

Wood’s husband at the time, Robert Wagner, has been called a person of interest and Lana Wood is among those who hold him responsible for her death. Natalie Wood was assaulted by Kirk Douglas, sister alleges 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z

Do you see the DC heroes on a grand level, like characters from Wagner or “Lord of the Rings”? Zack Snyder’s Rough and Tumble Ride With ‘Justice League’ 2021-03-14T05:00:00Z

At the end, rather than blessing the dead bodies of Tristan and Isolde, as Wagner indicated, Marke drags Isolde — here very much alive — away, still insisting on claiming the bride Tristan stole from him. Review: Cheers, but Modest Impact, for Revisionist ‘Tristan’ 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

He worked in the darkly symbolic forests, echoed Caspar David Friedrich's romantic landscapes and cited Wagner via photography, painting and sculpture. A life in art: Anselm Kiefer 2011-03-21T08:00:00Z

There is no comparison between a good vintage pan and modern Lodge or Wagner. Fashioning Cast-Iron Pans for Today’s Cooks 2016-06-28T04:00:00Z

Bach, Schoenberg, Wagner and Beethoven are outstanding examples of such revolutionaries. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was a revolutionary performer 2012-05-21T18:08:47Z

As well as Playing Cards and Wagner's Ring, Lepage is currently working on a Met premiere of Thomas Adès's operatic adaptation of The Tempest, which opens later this month. Director Robert Lepage: risking it all 2012-10-08T17:31:23Z

At a 2006 performance at the Tate Modern in London he sang a set of phrases including “Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler” over and over again into a microphone. Critic’s Notebook: Evgeny Nikitin and Wagner’s ‘Flying Dutchman’ 2012-07-26T21:52:31Z

Last year, the Wagners acquired the 6.7-acre lot for $682,000 at the end of Dusty Drive after months of negotiations over property adjustments involving the seller and his new neighbors. Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Such a blistering dismissal from Wagner’s chronically peevish widow can only pin another badge of honor on “Le Roi Malgré Lui.” ‘Saint-Saëns and His World’ at Bard 2012-07-20T17:08:16Z

Despite several awkward scenery-change pauses, the opera overall flowed with passages reminiscent of Mozart, Rossini, Puccini and Wagner under conductor Benjamin Dia’s baton. Filipino opera gets its Washington premiere at the Kennedy Center

Wagner focused on making the showroom feel luxurious but also appropriate for the downtown location. Yael Sonia's Luxe New York Showroom 2014-02-20T05:00:00Z

"Wagner was a genius, but also a fairly appalling human being," he wrote in 2010. A to Z of Wagner: C is for Cosima 2013-02-13T14:06:17Z

“I love the sound of Wagner tubas,” she said, smiling broadly. At 90, a Composer Is Still Sending Out Blasts 2021-10-20T04:00:00Z

Meanwhile, Mr. Levine’s admirers, especially Met fans looking forward to his performances this spring in the new production of Wagner’s “Walküre” and other operas, can only wish him good health and better luck. Critic?s Notebook: A Maestro?s Unfinished Legacy 2011-03-03T23:23:55Z

No one could have faulted him if he had just gone to the Metropolitan Opera to conduct a run of Wagner’s epic “Tristan und Isolde.” Review: In Mahler, Philadelphia Orchestra Finds Beauty Amid the Grit 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Katharina Wagner reiterated that she and her sister would fulfill their pledge to explore the ties of her family to Hitler and the Nazis in the years before and during World War II. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

Wagner was creating a prototype of the modern woman in Senta. After 145 Years, Bayreuth Festival Has Its First Female Conductor 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

But here the question, set to longing sighs in the orchestra, immediately evokes another complicated 19th-century operatic romance: Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde.” A King Arthur Rarity Is an Apt Way to Return to the Opera 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z

It was managed through the war years by Wagner's daughter-in-law Winifred Wagner, a close friend of the Nazi dictator. ArtsBeat: Swastika Tattoo Prompts a Casting Change at Bayreuth 2012-07-23T17:25:50Z

Richard Wagner: composer, conductor, dramatist, poet, polemicist, anarchist, Teutonic nationalist, anti-Semite, feminist, pacifist, vegetarian, animal rights activist — the man was the walking, talking definition of “protean genius.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Irritating at first, the conceit works by meshing with Wagner's opera instead of conflicting with it. Rats and recycling: Wacky Wagner at Bayreuth 2011-08-03T22:16:04Z

She says she will never get used to the Wagner fanatics, however, some of whom she finds "rather scary". The battle for?Bayreuth 2010-08-23T20:46:00Z

In 1864, Wagner met King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who salvaged the composer’s struggling career and made possible the creation of his late operas, including the “Ring.” Review: In ‘Wagner’s “Ring”: Forging an Epic,’ Valkyries on Their First Flight 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z

With that peculiar leaden-footed clumsiness he was to display later in life, Wagner Jr told Humperdinck: "Your polyphonic texture is a true marvel", which could be a description of a variety of pebbledash. Bliss; BBC Prom 61: H?nsel and Gretel 2010-09-04T23:06:00Z

So this was Wagner stripped to its essentials, and successfully so. Nelsons Turns Tanglewood Into Bayreuth-in-the-Berkshires 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z

"Would Germany celebrate Verdi on Wagner's birthday?" was the question asked south of the Alps. The best international cultural events of 2012 2012-12-05T19:00:12Z

Bach collides with Shostakovich, Wagner and cabaret; Faust dies horribly, "his brains stuck to the wall", to what is probably the noisiest tango ever written. BBCSO/Sinaisky ? review 2011-02-22T18:20:48Z

The Grahams have also staged Mozart, Rossini and more, but this year’s “Tristan” is their first step in Wagner beyond the “Ring.” Review: ‘Tristan und Isolde’ Brings Thunder to the Longborough Festival 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

He is Russian, and it’s still a rarity for foreigners to be invited to direct Wagner in Germany. Review: A Present-Day ‘Parsifal’ With a Nod to the Past 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z

But there are baseball memorabilia that could equal or surpass the Wagner card and Ruth bat in value, pieces that were known to exist but that have been lost or seemingly disappeared. The Holy Grails Of Baseball Collecting 2010-05-14T20:00:00Z

Ditto Wagner, who liked to surround himself with purple when he was composing. The Future Is ... Purple 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z

“Like the Hegelians, Wagner saw the contest over religion as the decisive episode in the emergence of the modern world,” Sir Roger writes. Getting into Valhalla 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

The work offers a heady brew of musical influences including Wagner and spirituals; the orchestral score, performed by the Harlem Chamber Players, calls for a banjo alongside more classical instruments. Classical & Opera Listings for June 26-July 2 2015-06-25T04:00:00Z

Rounding out the program are favorites: the Prelude to Act 1 of Wagner’s “Lohengrin” and Tchaikovsky’s seething Fourth Symphony. Classical Music to Come: A Finnish Star, Minimalism and Wagner 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

When he's drunk, Dean is humming Wagner's "Ride of the Valkyries." L.A. Phil plays 'Rebel,' 'Casablanca' and 'Waterfront' as the live-to-picture craze grows 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z

As with Wagner, Verdi has been as central to the history of recordings as he is to the history of music. Critics Pick Recordings to Celebrate Verdi’s Bicentennial 2013-12-26T22:00:58Z

Wagner too addressed the uncertainty about what happened in his book. Natalie Wood detectives face conflicting accounts 2011-11-19T12:47:11Z

One reason was aesthetic, Abels said: “It pulls on so many diverse genres of music” — of the Muslim diaspora, spirituals, bluegrass, Wagner and that other opera set in Charleston, “Porgy.” With Her First Opera, Rhiannon Giddens Returns to Her Roots 2022-05-19T04:00:00Z

Warner thinks that is why Wagner wanted to direct, rather than conduct, the first Ring Cycle at his theatre in Bayreuth in 1876. Keith Warner on his Royal Opera House Ring Cycle 2012-09-26T19:00:02Z

“Mrs. Wagner is briefly going to meet Frederick Douglass,” Ms. Brooks said while giving a preview Tuesday. Gracie Mansion Updates Its Art With Diversity 2015-10-14T04:00:00Z

Bruckner may have preferred God to gods, sex and dragons, but he remains Wagner's most devoted disciple. L'heure espagnole/L'enfant et les sortilèges; BBC Prom 33 – review 2012-08-11T23:05:35Z

The result is an orchestra pit that's like a smaller version of Wagner's in Bayreuth, descending yards underneath the stage to create the ideal sonic balance between the singers and the orchestra. Bringing Wagner to Gloucestershire 2010-07-22T22:06:00Z

Rather than boning up on the cycle in advance, Wadsworth encourages “Ring” virgins to simply surrender to the sweeping majesty of Wagner’s orchestral score, and to the power of the story. Director of Seattle ‘Ring’ operas: Go, ponder, enjoy 2013-08-02T22:06:32Z

The big Wagner and Strauss roles can take a toll, and Varnay showed increasing signs of strain. A Tale of Two Sopranos: Astrid Varnay and Birgit Nilsson 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

After earning a bachelor’s degree in European history in 1969 from Wagner College on Staten Island, Ms. Cliff worked briefly as a researcher at Time-Life Books and as a production editor at W. W. Norton. Michele Cliff, Who Wrote of Colonialism and Racism, Dies at 69 2016-06-18T04:00:00Z

The soprano Jacquelyn Wagner brought a lovely clean and focused sound to the part of Diemut that effortlessly penetrated the rich orchestral score. Music Review: Strauss’s ‘Feuersnot’ via Leon Botstein at Carnegie Hall 2013-12-18T22:30:36Z

Mr. Wagner “stamped his mark on the festival like no other,” Horst Seehofer, the governor of Bavaria, said. Wolfgang Wagner, Who Led Bayreuth Festival, Dies at 90 2010-03-22T18:08:00Z

The most important piece of your kit isn’t an object, Wagner said. Experts offer advice on how to create a well-stocked home first-aid kit 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

Any Wagner collector grows immune to oversize praise from critics as past recordings are unearthed by enterprising labels and spit-shined with the latest technology, but here was a “Ring” that warranted extravagance. Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z

The festival is seen by legions of fans as a sacred shrine to Richard Wagner, who set it up to showcase his works 134 years ago. The battle for?Bayreuth 2010-08-23T20:46:00Z

This is why Ms. Gregson Wagner has decided to create a fragrance in her mother’s name. A Mother’s Death, a Daughter’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

Alvy explains the antisemitic micro-aggressions he thinks he encounters, from a record store clerk pushing Wagner to a work associate who answers the question “Did you eat?” with “No, Jew?” Annie Hall at 40: ranking the film's funniest moments 2017-04-20T04:00:00Z

Ms. Wagner, who portrayed the straitlaced Mrs. Hughes for all of those 54 years, died on Saturday at her home in Mount Kisco, N.Y. Helen Wagner, Longtime Actress on ?As the World Turns,? Dies at 91 2010-05-04T03:38:00Z

YOU could see all four operas in Wagner’s “Ring” cycle for less money than it takes to go to a single Taylor Swift concert. Lincoln Center Works to Attract a Younger Audience 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z

To represent the pain of their unachievable desire, Wagner had to dispense with conventional harmony. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

Chagall created a swirl of figures and symbols that paid tribute to Bizet’s “Carmen,” Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” and Mussorgsky’s “Boris Godunov,” among others — and “The Magic Flute.” A Chagall Curtain Needs a New Home With a Tall Ceiling 2020-11-15T05:00:00Z

There's also the full-stage UK premiere of Jonathan Harvey's Wagner Dream, inspired by the fact that Wagner once pondered an opera on a Buddhist theme. The best classical concerts and operas for spring 2013 2013-04-01T06:00:00Z

Ms. Wagner and her sister intend to keep Bayreuth as a house for Wagner. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

Davern alleged that Wagner and Wood had an argument that evening that escalated. Robert Wagner is 'person of interest' in Natalie Wood death investigation 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

On recordings, she even ventured into Wagner excerpts and Puccini's "Turandot." Obituary: Soprano Joan Sutherland was opera legend 2010-10-12T03:18:00Z

Mr. Nelsons, 37, who is the music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and will be the next music director of the storied Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, has a special fondness for Wagner. More Operatic Drama at Bayreuth as Andris Nelsons Pulls Out 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z

"Anti-Semitism is woven into the fabric of the music of Wagner," Millington said. Wagner: reviled and revered, German history and music entwined 2013-01-27T08:06:07Z

One can only imagine how Wagner would have been exasperated by the contemporary classical world, with its sclerotic fear of the new. Ten Notable Performances and Recordings of 2014 2014-12-12T05:00:00Z

Wagner's last opera is an atmospheric fit for the huge acoustic of the Royal Albert Hall. Sakari Oramo's First Night at the Proms 2013-07-10T17:59:00Z

Nearly 40 years after Natalie Wood died mysteriously on a boat trip to Santa Catalina Island, investigators have named the actor’s husband Robert Wagner as a person of interest. Robert Wagner is 'person of interest' in Natalie Wood death investigation 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

Wagner honored Beethoven, one of his heroes, by adapting the technique to opera. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Hailing Opera's Shakespeare, and Its Proust 2011-01-17T12:00:40Z

Reviewing the biography in The New York Times Book Review, Herbert Weinstock called it “much the richest and best-accomplished single volume on Wagner in English.” Robert W. Gutman, Biographer of Wagner and Mozart, Dies at 90 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Then Michael Wagner, who tragically died very young, he had an almost supernatural imagination. Steven Bochco and Others on Creating ‘Hill Street Blues’ 2014-05-01T17:39:39Z

Domingo notes that the company hosted a citywide Wagner festival when the budget-busting “Ring Cycle” was staged seven years ago but has done no Wagner since. How Plácido Domingo taught L.A. to love opera 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z

“It is impossible to guess how Wagner might have reacted,” the critic Alex Ross wrote in The New Yorker, “but the shock was considerable.” Jürgen Flimm, Director of Festivals and Opera Houses, Dies at 81 2023-02-12T05:00:00Z

A century later, Brahms looked back to Bach as a model and in opposition to his nemesis Wagner, who signified music of the future. Bach and Brahms, still revolutionary 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

She radiates tender emotion in every gesture, essential but by no means a given for this archetypal Wagner heroine. Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2012-09-29T23:07:03Z

Soon after Wagner returned to Nashville from Chicago, he went to see Chesnutt play. Kurt Wagner on Lambchop, Nashville ? and being seen as a redneck 2012-02-10T00:00:01Z

Her career-long affinity for Wagner notwithstanding, her passions do not begin and end there. Music: Katarina Dalayman in ?G?tterd?mmerung? at the Met 2012-01-22T02:23:06Z

American operagoers predictably saw themselves reflected in the “rude forcefulness” of Wagner’s heroes. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Spare Times for Children for Sept. 14-20 ‘GO FISH’ It isn’t Halloween yet, but at Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park on Saturday it won’t be too early for a little grisly entertainment involving entrails. Spare Times for Children for Sept. 14-20 2012-09-13T22:41:58Z

Yet the opera’s few tender moments, set to what seemed like profaned echoes of Wagner’s “Tristan,” had a warmth that was gripping. Music Review: ?Lulu? at the Met, Now Conducted by Fabio Luisi 2010-05-09T22:19:00Z

An upcoming series at Lincoln Center, “Two Free Women,” celebrating the work of Tomlin and Wagner, partners in life and frequent artistic collaborators, isn’t screening it. Revisiting “Moment by Moment,” Lily Tomlin and John Travolta’s Wrongly Despised 1978 Melodrama 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

The Washington National Opera was performing Wagner’s “Ring” and its Brünnhilde, Catherine Foster, injured herself in rehearsal. After a Soprano’s Crisis, a Brünnhilde Is Born 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

In the 2008-9 season, the company, hit hard by the recession, had to cancel a concert performance of this early Wagner opera, which it had made something of a specialty over the decades. The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z

After they arrive at their hotel in Berlin, Wagner’s Götterdämmerung plays as Steve sits on the loo contemplating his wrinkled thighs. Where next for Steve Coogan's The Trip? 2016-02-11T05:00:00Z

Still, at a moment when Mr. Kaufmann has been taking on demanding dramatic tenor roles like Verdi’s Otello — and even testing the waters of Wagner’s Tristan — his singing seemed a little underpowered. Review: Jonas Kaufmann, Back at the Met, Is Good, Not Great 2018-10-18T04:00:00Z

Britten Serenade in the Park Although it has generated less hoopla than the Verdi and Wagner bicentennials this season, the English composer Benjamin Britten’s 100th birthday is also cause for celebration in 2013. Classical: Britten Serenade in the Park 2013-07-26T20:08:34Z

Jones’s first attempt at Wagner’s four-part epic about gods, mortals and the end of the world, which opened at Scottish Opera in 1989, got to the second part, “Die Walküre,” before the money ran out. The Stakes Are Sky-High for a ‘Ring’ Coming to the Met Opera 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

Themes transform almost as actively as with Wagner. Bach and Brahms, still revolutionary 2015-05-08T04:00:00Z

David Wagner, CEO of Juut Salonspa, often speaks about being a “Daymaker”—not just going through the motions at work, but actively choosing to be a source of positivity and encouragement. 10 Simple Ways to Become a Better Writer 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

After a while I get fed up with Wagner. Music: Katarina Dalayman in ?G?tterd?mmerung? at the Met 2012-01-22T02:23:06Z

Mr Wagner has fully co-operated over the last 30 years in the investigation of the accidental drowning of his wife in 1981. Wagner 'silent' over Wood probe 2013-01-18T10:04:33Z

But Wagner doesn’t want to dwell only in the darkness. Bruce Wagner’s ‘Maps to the Stars’ shows dark side of sunny Hollywood 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Gatti opened with the Third Act Prelude and Good Friday Music from Wagner's Parsifal, diluting the music's narcotic impact with an overly low-key approach. Prom 57: GMJO/Gatti – review 2012-08-27T11:29:57Z

Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, unremarkably played, is also saturated with love and death, but this was programming of dubious taste alongside the poignancy of the Lieberson songs. BBCSO/B?lohl?vek ? review 2010-10-04T21:00:00Z

What you describe as filmic is for me more about Wagner being a very practical man of theater. ‘A Stone in the Mosaic’: A Director Enters the House of Wagner 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

You know, I think in Seasons 1 and 2, Brittany Wagner was kind of that person for a lot of the players we were filming. "Last Chance U" director on Coach Beam's "Yoda-like" wisdom & the Oakland team's sacrifices 2020-07-28T04:00:00Z

The symphonies are substantial pieces – the First from 1861, lasts almost 70 minutes – in a style that seems closest to Mendelssohn and Schumann with just hints of Brahms and Wagner in the later works. Raff: Symphonies Nos 1 ? 11; Suites 2010-07-29T21:50:00Z

His psychologically and ideologically acute cycle, set amid the Industrial Revolution, opened up a new era in the direction of Wagner’s works, and it remains the best version of the cycle on screen. Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z

Adolf Hitler was a fan of Wagner, who died in 1883. Nazi-themed opera creates scandal in Germany 2013-05-07T13:42:55Z

Granted, Rand’s prose, both purple and leaden, doesn’t have the resistance-proof momentum of Wagner’s music. Review: ‘The Fountainhead,’ High-Tech, Juicy and Full of Pulp 2017-11-29T05:00:00Z

There are operas that are challenging for their sheer technical demands — the density of Berg’s “Lulu” or the heroic immensity of Wagner epics. The Pains and Privileges of Staging Mozart’s ‘Don Giovanni’ 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

In the second half of a year marking the 200th anniversary of Wagner's birth, the Met originally planned a revival of "Parsifal" for next season but changed it to "Wozzeck" to accommodate Levine's comeback. Met cuts ticket prices following box office slump 2013-02-26T22:04:08Z

Here, though, Wagner has been integrated into a repertory consciously designed to develop the ensemble. A Critic’s First Orchestra Defines Britain’s Musical Soul 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Some think “Vexations” is a rebellion against everything Péladan stood for, especially the Romantic grandeur of Richard Wagner’s operas. What It’s Like to Hear the Same Piece of Music for 19 Hours 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

Unexpectedly, this early Wagner work has not only survived such ubiquity but now seems more remarkable than at the start of these close encounters. Scottish Opera: The Flying Dutchman; Fretwork – review 2013-04-13T23:07:47Z

I readily confess to feeling less sympathetic toward the rest of Wagner’s canon, personal flaw though that may be. Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z

He said Wagner is not considered a suspect in Wood's death. Coroner releases new report on Natalie Wood death 2013-01-14T17:23:13Z

After working as a fry cook, shoe salesman and various other odd jobs, Wagner found his way into the cocktail-lounge circuit. Walt Wagner, longtime Canlis pianist, is retiring ... and Sub Pop will be there to document it 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Wagner, struck with guilt, wrote: “My Tristan! My beloved! I drove you to the abyss.” Taking On ‘Tristan,’ a Role That Demands Much of a Tenor 2016-09-25T04:00:00Z

Despite his distaste for early Wagner, he would be interested in a “Flying Dutchman” on period instruments. A New Era Takes Shape at the World’s Opera Capital 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

In Wagner it's always the music that matters most. Wagner bicentenary: the music is still what matters most 2013-05-21T23:59:01Z

Wagner für Kinder productions tend to concede complexity in favor of a single, central meaning and plotline. Wagner’s Sprawling Operas, Shrunk to Child Size 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Fitch first teamed up with Mr. Gilbert on “Das Rheingold,” the curtain raiser for Wagner’s epic “Ring” cycle, at the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in 2002. Music: New York Philharmonic Stages Ligeti?s ?Grand Macabre? 2010-05-21T19:40:00Z

No composer portrayed carnal passion in all its ramifications as well as Wagner. At SSO, remarkable Wagner, majestic Saint-Saëns 2013-06-28T19:54:33Z

Nelsons has frequently confessed his cradle devotion to Wagner – the music that first inspired him as a child – memorably demonstrated in Birmingham performances of Lohengrin and Tristan. CBSO/Nelsons: Beethoven cycle, The Flying Dutchman; Eugene Onegin – review 2013-03-24T00:07:02Z

Listening to Wagner requires some preparation, partly because of the works' length but also because, more than most opera composers, Wagner's operas are about ideas, not just stories. Wagner bicentenary: the music is still what matters most 2013-05-21T23:59:01Z

Beczala performs the Wagner role — pure, precise and often treacherously exposed — with total security and elegance. Review: A Blunt New ‘Lohengrin’ at the Met Stars a Shining Knight 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

He remembers marital tensions among the Wagner clan and political anxieties about Friedrich being the first East German to work at Bayreuth. With Siegfried at last 2011-07-15T21:54:02Z

After 30 years, Berk said, neither Wagner nor his daughters have any new information to add. Robert Wagner not interviewed in new Wood inquiry 2013-01-18T00:00:12Z

Harvey mingles scenes from Wagner's domestic life with the myth of Prakriti, whose love for the Buddhist monk Ananda is at first thwarted. The best classical concerts and operas for spring 2013 2013-04-01T06:00:00Z

On how much of Scotland features in Dredd's DNA, Wagner said: "Well, he's pretty dour, but apart from that I can't make a particularly Scottish connection." Comic lawman Dredd's Scots roots 2012-08-14T05:37:40Z

Wagner nor his publicists made no immediate response. Natalie Wood: reinvestigating the mysterious death of a movie star 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

And under Mr. Levine the orchestra, which plays a lot of Wagner and Mozart in the opera house, infused Brahms’s symphonic sound with both Wagnerian richness and Mozartean clarity. Review: The Met Orchestra’s Season Concludes Under James Levine’s Soaring Baton 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

Christine Goerke, who is getting ready to join the long, storied line of Brünnhildes who have scaled Wagner’s epic “Ring” cycle at the Metropolitan Opera, walked into Valhalla. A Soprano Survived a Vocal Crisis. The Met Found Its Brünnhilde. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

So it’s not my job to tell them the story that Wagner has written, but instead it forces us to have a new vision and approach every time. ‘A Stone in the Mosaic’: A Director Enters the House of Wagner 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

His “Lohengrin” is tame by comparison; after all, it was made for a traditional proscenium space designed by Wagner. Bayreuth’s First American Director Made Wagner a Feminist. What Now? 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z

As Andy Wagner, the actor playing the moderator explained, the creators wanted to see if gender-inverted casting would “cause people to revisit their own personal biases and develop insights or a different perspective.” He Said, She Said: Gender-Bending the Presidential Debates 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z

It is also true that whoever plays this character needs the stamina and breath control of Wagner’s Brünnhilde to get through Maggie’s protracted opening aria of lust and lamentation without passing out. Theater Review: ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,’ at Richard Rodgers Theater 2013-01-18T03:00:00Z

New productions of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle, a 16-hour epic taking place over four evenings, are always a highly anticipated event, and even more so when they take place at the annual Bayreuth Festival. ‘A Stone in the Mosaic’: A Director Enters the House of Wagner 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Her openness came through as she discussed her production of “Die Meistersinger,” Hitler’s favorite Wagner opera. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

Wagner's own idea was to give the opera a Scottish setting – riding on early 19th-century romantic enthusiasms for Walter Scott, Ossian and the like. Scottish Opera: The Flying Dutchman; Fretwork – review 2013-04-13T23:07:47Z

She loved Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung,” and its finale, the Immolation Scene. Ruth Bader Ginsburg Loved Opera, and Opera Loved Her Back 2020-09-19T04:00:00Z

Collated from writings by Wagner and his contemporaries, the play examines both the genesis of the Ring cycle and the world of the egomaniac who created it. Die Walk?re/The Madness of an Extraordinary Plan - review 2011-07-17T15:28:14Z

Wagner stepped down after the 2008 festival following a lengthy power struggle in which the patriarch long resisted efforts to dislodge him. Wolfgang Wagner, longtime Bayreuth director, dies 2010-03-22T07:59:00Z

She mostly stayed in the background of the family squabbles that the Wagner clan is famous for, but in recent years she criticized the foundation for its decision-making process. Composer Wagner's great granddaughter Iris dies at 71 2014-01-10T15:27:46Z

He said Wagner is not considered a suspect in Wood’s death. Coroner Releases New Report on Natalie Wood Death 2013-01-14T18:11:23Z

The 2015-16 season of the Washington National Opera, announced not long ago, will include several enduring and popular works, Georges Bizet’s “Carmen” and Richard Wagner’s “Ring” cycle among them. ‘Words Without Music’: A look inside Philip Glass’s creative genius 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z

Kennaway attributes the widespread and well-documented illnesses attached to Wagner's music in part to the fact that people rarely had the opportunity to listen to live performances. A disease called Richard? Wagner as mental health menace 2013-05-22T10:54:15Z

He retired on April 24, 2004, after a performance of Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung,” missing not a single broadcast in nearly three decades. Peter Allen, stalwart host of the Metropolitan Opera’s radio broadcasts, dies at 96 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z

This trend in staging receives additional impetus from a theory — based on informed conjecture rather than hard evidence — that Wagner’s treatment of Beckmesser reflects his anti-Semitism. Opera Review: On Opposite Shores: 'Meistersinger' and 'Rosenkavalier' 2011-05-24T18:30:06Z

Spain’s early explorations of Texas began in 1521, according to Sherry Kafka Wagner, a historian and urban designer. San Antonio’s Summer Homage to Spain 2018-07-11T04:00:00Z

Shaw said Wagner was not striving for musical effect "any more than Shakespeare in his plays is driving at such ingenuities of verse-making as sonnets, triolets and the like." A to Z of Wagner: G is for Gesamtkunstwerk 2013-04-18T14:30:21Z

In this, the year of his bicentenary, tens of thousands of opera-goers will sit spellbound by Wagner. What's Wagner's secret? Love, actually 2013-04-25T16:00:01Z

Wagner came from humble roots in Michigan and worked his way up the A-list with 1950s war films and westerns. Natalie Wood: reinvestigating the mysterious death of a movie star 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

With his dark-hued voice and formidable technique he now apparently can sing Wagner, Verdi, Puccini and French opera with equal flair. New cast enlivens Met's reviled 'Tosca' 2010-04-15T07:00:00Z

Wagner may have had the French grand operas of Meyerbeer in mind when he wrote “Rienzi,” but the score exudes Italianate style. Music Review: Wagner?s ?Rienzi? From Opera Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-02-01T00:07:03Z

Leipzig is no stranger to music; the likes of Bach, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Wagner all called the city home. ‘New Berlin’ or Not, Leipzig Has New Life 2014-09-02T04:00:00Z

After an Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Pre-Emmy Performers Peer Group reception in August, Tomlin told E! she and Wagner never even imagined same-sex marriage in their lifetimes. Mazel tov, Lily Tomlin! 2014-01-07T20:40:00Z

The definitive production of Wagner's Ring will never exist: even 16 hours is not nearly long enough to explore all the baggage this work carries with it. Götterdämmerung – review 2012-10-02T16:49:42Z

On the program of his Carnegie Hall debut is “Der Rosenkavalier” by Strauss — for whom, along with Wagner, the conductor is especially revered. Meet the New Generation Leading Berlin’s Classical Scene 2018-01-19T05:00:00Z

Though the playing abounded in youthful energy and dramatic sweep, other, deeper qualities distinguished the account of this early Wagner opera, first performed in Dresden in 1843. Review: Met Opera’s Next Music Director Captains a Blazing ‘Dutchman’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Let's just say this: The works of, say, Andrei Tarkovsky or Richard Wagner strike many people as boring, and are hence widely avoided. "TRON: Legacy:" A $170 million insult 2010-12-16T00:11:00Z

Thirty years ago, Nazi uniforms were a veritable cliche in works by Verdi and Wagner. Perspective | Opera plays its Trump card: Yes, the president is showing up in Verdi 2019-07-03T04:00:00Z

So perhaps it should be no surprise to find Bruce Wagner sitting inside, neatly ensconced in a high-backed chair, contentedly tapping at an iPad. Bruce Wagner’s ‘Maps to the Stars’ shows dark side of sunny Hollywood 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

He then moved to New York and formed Ursa Major, a short-lived band that included Mr. Wagner on guitar and Billy Joel on keyboards. Dick Wagner, rock guitarist who co-wrote many of Alice Cooper’s hits, dies at 71

In addition to "La Bamba" and "Strangers in the Night," there's a heavy dose of Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde," which is required to underline the gathering sense of disaster. 'Melancholia': Dunst goes doomsday-mad 2011-11-17T23:00:14Z

This year is also the bicentennial of Verdi and Wagner, whose work will be heard in the new season. Seattle Opera’s 2013-14 season: light, dark and fantastical 2013-01-26T04:41:00Z

He is now a licensed professional therapist at Inspire Counseling center, a mental health clinic in Northbrook, Ill. Ms. Wagner is a third-grade teacher at Peirce Elementary on the North Side of Chicago. Winning With Bingo, and Then Bringing Her the Stars 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

Bruckner was a Wagner devotee who strove to write spacious works that carried on, yet transformed the symphonic tradition as bequeathed from Haydn and Beethoven. Music Review: An Unlikely Pair, Making Musical Sense 2011-07-14T23:06:24Z

In a move that drew some protests in the local arts community, Wagner was suddenly fired last fall after a decade running the festival. Raichle stays on at Giant Magnet as executive director 2010-06-03T21:59:00Z

And Rosler believes the dramatist's main ally in undermining the racist Wagner is Wagner himself: the humanist Wagner who inhabits the deep structure of the music. What's Wagner's secret? Love, actually 2013-04-25T16:00:01Z

This is due, in no small part, to the alarming script by Bruce Wagner, a writer best known as an envelope-pushing chronicler of Tinseltown ego and excess. 'Maps to the Stars' a nightmarish tour of Hollywood narcissism 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

The lawsuit filed against Mr. Wagner by his neighbors is pending. Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

"Wolfgang Wagner dedicated his whole life to the legacy of his grandfather," the festival website said. Bayreuth leader Wagner dies at 90 2010-03-22T12:35:00Z

Wagner from the wings … Die Walküre at the Royal Opera House. Access all arias: Die Walküre at the Royal Opera House 2013-01-04T11:59:01Z

Filtering the influence of Bach’s and Mendelssohn’s classic oratorios through the innovations of Wagner, Mahler and Stravinsky, “Haggadah,” like the Seder itself, both shows and tells: the Exodus story is juxtaposed with explanations of symbols. Music Review: In a Tale of Deliverance, It?s Moses to the Rescue 2011-04-22T22:56:01Z

For a new “Ring,” a company needs a Wagner conductor it can count on. For James Levine, The Twilight Of a Conductor 2011-05-20T20:25:13Z

Most orchestras in the 1970s tended to play Beethoven in a style that was pretty much identical to that in which they played Wagner or Strauss. A Revolutionary Approach to Beethoven: Period Instruments 2020-02-14T05:00:00Z

It is just the sort of thing, its creators say, that Wagner would have wanted: the most advanced technology in service of his . Arts & Leisure Preview: The Valhalla Machine 2010-09-17T16:10:00Z

This is good news for the Met, where Mr. Kaufmann is scheduled to sing the title role in a new production of Wagner’s “Parsifal” next year. Music Review: ‘Les Troyens,’ at the Royal Opera House in London 2012-06-26T21:10:52Z

He has often gotten stuck on the innovative staging elements of a new offering, as happened with his promotion of Robert Lepage’s exasperating production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle. Let’s Talk About Risk at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-08-06T04:00:00Z

When younger people ask her for advice, Ms. Peoples Wagner tells them to “be hungry to do the work and less thirsty for attention.” The Imperial Editor Goes the Way of the Dodo 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

The manager of the restaurant where the Wagner party dined that night “thought at the time there were some possible problems between Robert Wagner and his wife.” Review | How did Natalie Wood die? Forty years later, her sister offers theories in a new book. 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

It was like a crash-bang-boom course in how to read sound: The vastness of Wagner became suddenly legible in the context of wabbit-killing. Zoom-based opera for preschoolers might sound like your worst nightmare. But it’s actually the best Zoom there is. 2020-08-18T04:00:00Z

“I worry I will sing only Wagner. And I want to sing other music as well. Balance is very important.” A Tenor’s Secrets to ‘Lohengrin’: Golf and a Blunt Spouse 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

With Philadelphia, he recorded an album of excerpts from Wagner, whose music he conducts with a mesmerizing mix of spacious naturalness and building tension, and twice brought that orchestra to Carnegie Hall. One of the World’s Great Maestros Is Suddenly a Free Agent 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

Richard Wagner might turn over in his grave if he heard “The Ride of the Valkyries” as performed by the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. From the Nile Project, euphoric sound and a collaborative spirit flow 2015-04-16T04:00:00Z

The child of Brünnhilde and Siegfried, not in Wagner’s libretto, died in last year’s version but now escapes the apocalyptic finale. At Bayreuth, the Work on Wagner’s Operas Is Never Done 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

Wagner, astonished, proclaimed Saint-Saëns possessed a great musical mind. Seattle Symphony ends season with Wagner, Saint-Saëns 2013-06-25T18:30:10Z

Andre D. Wagner is a young photographer with an old soul. Andre D. Wagner's stirring photographs tell it like it is 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

The Wagner benefited from a natural, seductive flow and, once your ears became acclimated to the modest amplification, a plush shapely string sound. Music Review: Knights in Naumburg Orchestral Concert at Central Park 2012-07-11T22:01:58Z

Wagner presents them as mortified for allowing Alberich to steal the gold. Music Review: Wagner’s ‘Ring’ Opens at Bayreuth With Reality-Cam Touch 2013-07-28T21:38:06Z

Anderson became one of the first actors to play the same character simultaneously on two shows on different networks when he reprised his Goldman role in the 1976-1978 spinoff "The Bionic Woman," starring Lindsay Wagner. Actor Richard Anderson, boss of 'Six Million Dollar Man,' dies 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

"The Jewish musician hurls together the diverse forms and styles of every age and every master," wrote Wagner. A to Z of Wagner: J is for Jews 2013-06-13T15:31:05Z

For example, Wagner places the first scene inside a church in Nürnberg, where parishioners are singing a sturdy chorale. Music Review: Reimagining Wagner’s ‘Meistersinger’ at Salzburg Festival 2013-08-05T21:45:01Z

Designed by Christopher Oram in a style that brings to mind the Metropolitan Opera at its most traditional, this production accords “Evita” the kind of respect usually reserved for Verdi and Wagner. Theater Review: ?Evita,? Starring Elena Roger, at the Marquis Theater 2012-04-06T02:00:09Z

The problem is that Wagner also influenced Strauss’s libretto, and Strauss wasn’t much of a poet. Washington Concert Opera exhumes Strauss rarity — once 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

Conrad may have his thumb on the scales when he weighs up the characters of the two composers, but even allowing for distorting emphases, Wagner is thrillingly repellent. Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad – review 2013-02-19T12:10:12Z

New Yorkers heard him — and how — this year leading a refreshingly lithe, transparent and colorful performance of Wagner’s “Ring” at the Metropolitan Opera. Review: At the Philharmonic, a Major Return Played Safe 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z

While Mr. Gergiev has done much Wagner, at the Met and elsewhere, his performances are notoriously uneven: sometimes inspired, sometimes phoned-in. The Met Opera’s ‘Dutchman’ Sails Into Port With a New Star 2020-03-01T05:00:00Z

“It’s something between Schoenberg and Wagner, and like a sacred opera without linear narration. So you have the freedom to do whatever you want.” Reawakening the Antichrist (and Other Lost Opera Gems) 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z

Rick Olson, the former mayor of McMinnville and one of the commissioners who reviewed the Wagner case, said feuds like these are likely to multiply. Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

One of Disney’s clearest, most abiding influences is the Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria, a 19th century historicist confection built in honor of Richard Wagner. Is Disney the Met’s Fairy Godmother? 2021-12-26T05:00:00Z

That’s why the Met opened its doors with Gounod’s “Faust” in Italian and Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” had its London premiere in Italian. ‘Don Carlo’ or ‘Don Carlos’? Verdi Comes to the Met in French 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z

“But because of the Wagner bicentennial” this year, “I decided to bring it back immediately.” The Met Packs Up Its Notorious ‘Ring’ Machine 2013-05-17T22:12:45Z

Hitler and the Nazi regime embraced the music of the notoriously anti-Semitic Wagner, who founded the festival to celebrate his operas. ArtsBeat: Swastika Tattoo Prompts a Casting Change at Bayreuth 2012-07-23T17:25:50Z

If that space vet role is still going, Wagner would suit it down to the ground. Let's help One Direction make a film that isn't all over the place 2012-06-07T17:12:57Z

As Mr. Lepage continues to unveil his production of Wagner’s “Ring” at the Met, he is sure to win some new admirers with this Canadian Opera Company production. Music Review: Stravinsky?s Tales, Dunked in the Spin Cycle 2011-03-02T22:59:11Z

I was eager for the chance to hear Wagner’s German libretto performed in the excellent English translation by Richard Stokes. Music Review: A Wagnerian Quest in Proper English 2011-02-17T22:57:54Z

On a recent morning, the stage director Àlex Ollé was supervising a chorus rehearsal for Richard Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman” in an upstairs room of the opera house here. From Street Theater to Wagner on the Opera Stage 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

One fan, Maurice Ravel, once remarked that he would rather have composed “Le Roi Malgré Lui” than Wagner’s entire “Ring” cycle. ‘Saint-Saëns and His World’ at Bard 2012-07-20T17:08:16Z

The LPO and its principal conductor made a strong case, too, for Wagner's overture. LPO/Jurowski 2010-05-03T21:45:00Z

Jason Wagner, the general manager, started calling guests to cancel reservations. Fung Tu Keeps Cooking, Even With Gas Shut Off 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

Since he abhorred her anti-semitism – and that of his one-time idol, Richard Wagner – this twist of fate was even crueller, ultimately, than spending the last 11 years of his life as a drooling zombie. My hero: Friedrich Nietzsche by Geoff Dyer 2011-02-05T00:05:38Z

Okay, so Rhinemaidens are technically Wagner rather than Beethoven – but the rest of this film is made up anyway, and a few misattributed 19th century German music babes would scarcely have made things any worse. Immortal Beloved: beating Beethoven into Meat Loaf 2010-07-01T15:01:00Z

I also liked Gnesin’s “From Shelly,” another symphonic fragment, this one a curious blend of wayward lyricism, diffuse chromatic harmonic writing and evocations of Wagner. Two Russian Tours, One Led by Evgeny Kissin, the Other by the American Symphony Orchestra 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z

Wagner was then at the peak of his influence and prestige, while Verdi survived chiefly by means of a handful of stubbornly popular repertory pieces. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z

The position of the orchestra members in the pit, for instance, was prescribed by Wagner. After 145 Years, Bayreuth Festival Has Its First Female Conductor 2021-07-21T04:00:00Z

Wagner, 86, said she was confident in the approach that Silverman and Strong were taking. Continuing ‘The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe’ 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

Each of the three acts in its new production of “Die Walküre,” the second opera in Wagner’s tetralogy, which opens on Sunday, has a highly different staging, each devised by a different creative team. One Opera, Three Acts, Three Different Stagings 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z

"People will recognize an aesthetic that is very close to the early productions of Wagner, and at the same time ground-breaking technology and ahead of the curve avant-garde vocabularies," he said. Met Opera shows high-tech effects for Das Rheingold 2010-09-28T18:22:00Z

Greatly amused, Wagner and Grant went on to write Kenny Who? as a character. Comic lawman Dredd's Scots roots 2012-08-14T05:37:40Z

This is all of a piece with the demythologizing trend in Wagner stagings over the past 50 years, especially in Europe. Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

Ms. Voigt certainly has a broader range than the style suggested by the Wagner excerpt. Deborah Voigt, Meet Ethel Merman 2010-07-22T19:27:00Z

The system allows for a vast number of possible configurations and will be used to create each scene of Wagner’s epic tale “in a chameleonlike fashion,” Mr. Gelb said. For New ?Ring,? Met Reinforces Its Stage With Steel 2010-06-07T18:50:00Z

“Ring” cycles tend to draw Wagner fans from around the world, who can be as obsessive as Deadheads. A Soprano Survived a Vocal Crisis. The Met Found Its Brünnhilde. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z

The other problem was, of course, incompleteness: single acts and extracts of Wagner, when done this well, leave you longing to hear the whole work. Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg – review 2013-02-13T17:17:51Z

“I didn’t ever think that there’d be anything better,” says Wagner, 29, now a law student in Edinburgh, Scotland. We were ‘married.’ Yet the Supreme Court ruling made us want an ‘I re-do!’ 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

Other listeners worship, if only metaphorically, at Bayreuth, Germany — long the home of an annual Wagner festival — like so many Parsifals genuflecting before the Holy Grail. Review | If ever there was a moment for Richard Wagner, it is 2020 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

Wagner never intended the piece to be performed publicly but later sold it when he needed money. Review: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Gets Personal in Central Park 2015-07-22T04:00:00Z

The recent announcement that he would withdraw from the new production of Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung,” which opens on Jan. 27, was sad news but not surprising. Peter Gelb?s Tenure at Metropolitan Opera 2011-11-25T15:13:27Z

Tomlin, Wagner, Strong and Silverman gathered earlier this month for a video interview in which they spoke about their individual and collective journeys on “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.” Continuing ‘The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe’ 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

It may not be the freshest metaphor, but Mr. Wagner’s low-key creepiness and Mr. Cronenberg’s spooky precision breathe new life into a few other tired ideas as well. Review: David Cronenberg Dissects Hollywood in ‘Maps to the Stars’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

Captain Wagner has worked in education and public outreach for the several cultural institutions, including most recently the U.S. The New ‘Monuments Officers’ Prepare to Protect Art Amid War 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

In one letter, Wagner boasted that his 1959 red was “the closest thing to a Beaujolais” produced in the United States. What did the founding fathers drink? And other pressing wine questions. 2015-04-05T04:00:00Z

A production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle has become the entry card for any opera company that wants to be considered big time. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z

Wagner then presses Collins to talk about her internal deliberations on the matter, not just as a congressional representative, but as a woman. Brett Kavanaugh gives “The Circus” what it desperately needs: cliffhangers and unpredictable... 2018-09-24T04:00:00Z

Jazz Age American music and a celebration of the 200th anniversary of Wagner’s birth will be among the highlights of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s 2012–13 season. ArtsBeat: New Jersey Symphony to Mark Jazz Age and Wagner Next Season 2012-01-30T19:58:45Z

He absorbed the romantic sturm und drang of Caspar David Friedrich's landscapes and skyscapes, and delved deep into Wagner's music and his place in German culture. A life in art: Anselm Kiefer 2011-03-21T08:00:00Z

It’s not easy to find a recording that captures the same level of urgency and anxiety Szell brought to Strauss’s “Death and Transfiguration,” and his Wagner Overtures are truly regal. ‘George Szell: The Complete Columbia Album Collection’ Review: A Maestro’s Time in Cleveland Still Shines 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z

Wagner infuriated them by making his ballet a bacchanal that immediately follows the overture. Wagner's 'Tannhaeuser' in time of war 2010-12-13T15:00:00Z

In “Moment by Moment,” Wagner reveals herself to be more than a subtle dramatist and a discerning director of actors. Revisiting “Moment by Moment,” Lily Tomlin and John Travolta’s Wrongly Despised 1978 Melodrama 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

A monument to the composer - showing a young Wagner overshadowed by his older, famous self - was to be unveiled Wednesday in Leipzig. Germany celebrates composer Wagner's 200th 2013-05-22T10:41:08Z

The competition proceeded as usual last weekend, even as an armed rebellion by Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner mercenary group, moved closer to Moscow. Russia’s Storied Tchaikovsky Competition Is Diminished by War 2023-06-29T04:00:00Z

At Newport Fitness, that translates to just 22 people in the facility, Wagner said, less than enough to meet demand. Gyms turn to outdoor classes to lure cautious but stir-crazy members 2020-06-18T04:00:00Z

He’s giving us more of a confiding, Kurt Wagner murmur, which suits him. Listen to 13 Essential Walter Becker Songs 2017-09-04T04:00:00Z

“But by not playing Wagner, one is giving Hitler a posthumous victory.” Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Delivers 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

His death, at Roosevelt Hospital, was from complications of a recent stroke, his manager, Sharon Wagner, said. David Howard, Revered Teacher of Dancers, Dies at 76 2013-08-19T00:50:27Z

With performances of seven of his operas, Wagner comfortably outpoints Verdi in this year's Proms. The best classical concerts and operas for summer 2013 2013-05-26T18:30:01Z

The final symposium, on Aug. 22, focuses on the topic, “How do the spatial and temporal dimensions of Wagner’s ‘Ring’ influence its performance, its legacy and the audience’s experience?” How to get even more out of Seattle Opera’s ‘Ring’ cycle 2013-07-25T22:42:24Z

Mr. Ollé said he also found something surprising inside Wagner’s work, namely the composer’s concept of “total work of art,” or “Gesamtkunstwerk,” to reunite drama and opera. From Street Theater to Wagner on the Opera Stage 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

Given the scarcity of top Verdi and Wagner baritones, Lucas hopes to be hired by bigger and bigger companies. Transgender baritone Lucia Lucas makes US debut 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gelb has taken a big risk and made a major statement with Robert Lepage’s production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle, of which audiences have so far seen three of the four operas. Peter Gelb?s Tenure at Metropolitan Opera 2011-11-25T15:13:27Z

As Longborough proves, all you need is a conductor who knows his Wagner inside-out – well, alright, that and an opera house in your garden. Two conductors fight it out in the Wagner ring 2010-08-02T11:38:00Z

As a translator, Mr. Porter was renowned for his complete English version of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle, which was recorded by the English National Opera. Andrew Porter, New Yorker Classical Music Critic, Dies at 86 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z

You may, as I did, nod in agreement with the invocation of Wagner in the album’s liner notes, by the musicologist Douglas Shadle. 5 Classical Music Albums You Can Listen to Right Now 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z

Riot Fest organizer Max Wagner said the festival tries to be a good neighbor. Neighbors protest 3-day music fest near Byers 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z

After several top artists refused to participate in the 2000 festival, festival board members named Eva Wagner-Pasquier as the new director, but Wagner refused to step down, insisting on the life term in his contract. Wolfgang Wagner, longtime Bayreuth director, dies 2010-03-22T07:59:00Z

Nella celebrates Hazel's hire, viewing it as proof that Wagner is finally living up to its promise to prioritize diversity after years of empty gestures. "The Other Black Girl" peeks into the hidden horrors of being the only person of color at the office 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z

You can expert Wagner buffs to turn up for an evening with the soprano Christine Brewer. Fraught Seasons at Met and City Opera 2010-05-08T21:35:00Z

“There’s just nothing like Wagner: the huge orchestra and the huge sound.” A 6-Hour Opera in a Pandemic? The Met Goes for It. 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z

Of the core repertory, the 25 or 30 titles at the center of the Metropolitan Opera’s history, none has been absent from its stage longer than Wagner’s “Lohengrin.” 10 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2023 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

From the baritonal colorings, unforced power and lyrical elegance of Mr. Kaufmann’s Wagner singing on the new recording, he seems born to the style. Jonas Kaufmann, Scaling Wagnerian Mountaintops 2010-06-04T15:14:00Z

Perhaps Wagner had it in mind when charging Meyerbeer with creating “effects without causes.” Music: 'Les Hugenots,' Making Operatic History Again 2011-06-21T11:21:41Z

Her narration, written by her longtime partner, Jane Wagner, is measured and eloquent, but she's passionate in conversation as she decries "inequity and injustice and suffering" and encourages others to get involved. Lily Tomlin speaks up for elephants in documentary 2013-04-24T18:32:11Z

Stomach-turning, sick-making, rancid, repugnant, repellent, squalid, odious, fetid, disgusting — there is a thesaurus full of terms to describe the contents of Bruce Wagner’s willfully offensive new novel, “Dead Stars.” Book Of The Times: Book Review: ‘Dead Stars,’ by Bruce Wagner 2012-08-10T06:30:09Z

The construction job fell to Clyde Wagner, Luminato’s executive producer, and his production team. The Luminato Festival Turns a Former Power Plant Into a Creative Engine 2016-06-12T04:00:00Z

In February, it will host an evening of Wagner excerpts, conducted by Antonio Pappano, and Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2, conducted by Daniel Harding. Concerts and Dance Tuned to the Season: Global Arts Guide 2016-12-21T05:00:00Z

Ms. Goerke’s performances as Brünnhilde in Wagner’s “Ring” last season at the Metropolitan Opera reaffirmed her status as one of the world’s outstanding dramatic sopranos. Review: A Conductor and Soprano Test Wagnerian Waters 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z

And for those who love the operas of Wagner and Strauss — and who can go for years without hearing good, let alone great, performances of their most difficult roles — they were excruciating. Nina Stemme Takes On Her Biggest Met Opera Assignment Yet 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

For years he has maintained that he heard the famous couple arguing on the boat before Wood went missing and Wagner refusing to immediately search the waters nearby for his wife. Natalie Wood detectives face conflicting accounts 2011-11-19T12:47:11Z

At 10:49 a.m. on April 13, Mr. Wagner and a dozen of his neighbors and their supporters met face to face in Room 32 in the county courthouse in downtown McMinnville. Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Every other Wagner opera was long ago liberated from the original 19th-century stagings that Wagner himself ordained. Mastering Die Meistersinger 2010-06-03T21:59:00Z

Indeed, Wagner drew upon Harry – a classic antihero with whom we are never intended to completely identify – for inspiration. Can the new Judge Dredd movie excise all memories of Sly Stallone and Rob Schneider? 2010-09-16T13:59:00Z

Both Ms. Wagner and Ms. Barton sustained powerful emotion within the constraints of the musical line, later doing the same in more melting fashion in a duet from Bellini’s “Norma.” At SummerStage, Metropolitan Opera’s Recital Series Begins 2014-06-24T04:00:00Z

"For me it was like a day you always knew was going to happen," Wagner says. Kurt Wagner on Lambchop, Nashville ? and being seen as a redneck 2012-02-10T00:00:01Z

By then Wagner was enjoying prime-time success with Hart to Hart. Natalie Wood: reinvestigating the mysterious death of a movie star 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

At various points during the performance, singers and solo instrumentalists perform from different places within the concert hall, which produces an extraordinary three-dimensional effect, immersing the audience in Wagner's music. Tristan und Isolde in widescreen 2010-09-21T20:29:00Z

The tickets can be secured in advance, and they disappear, Katharina Wagner said in an interview, as soon as they go on line. Children's Programming at Bayreuth: Wagner, of Course, and They Love It 2010-08-05T15:18:00Z

Rey, a rising heroine, has a minor-key melody that seems related to Williams’s Force motif—itself a cousin of Wagner’s Siegfried—while possessing its own airy, modal character. Listening to “Star Wars” 2016-01-01T05:00:00Z

Two days before her opening in Toronto, Ms. Goerke spoke over tea about her path from the band at Patchogue-Medford High School on Long Island to Wagner’s Valhalla. After a Soprano’s Crisis, a Brünnhilde Is Born 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wagner said the odds of being able to process at his farm are slim to none. Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Girard said that he sees all of Wagner’s mature operas as “a grand fresco,” and these two are more related than any of the others. A New ‘Lohengrin,’ Threatened by War in Ukraine, Comes to the Met 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

It is Mr. Wagner’s job to unlock the sidewalk cellar doors and sprint downstairs to reset the circuit breakers. Fung Tu Keeps Cooking, Even With Gas Shut Off 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

If Lang's Wagner was the concert's sensuous interlude, Nielsen's Fourth Symphony, The Inextinguishable, was its thrilling finale. Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Oramo 2010-08-16T16:12:00Z

Most recently, Strong was performing in "The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe," a play written by Jane Wagner and originally performed by her longtime partner and friend of SNL, Lily Tomlin. "Saturday Night Live" jabs at Trump's NFT cards in the cold open for Cecily Strong's last episode 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z

When you talk about approaching the work as a TV series or film, is this something that at least partly comes from the filmic quality of Wagner’s music? ‘A Stone in the Mosaic’: A Director Enters the House of Wagner 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Wagner — opera of any kind — is a far cry from the music Ms. Dalayman heard as a girl. Music: Katarina Dalayman in ?G?tterd?mmerung? at the Met 2012-01-22T02:23:06Z

He once taught Prince Charles to conduct Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll” as a present for his wife. Perspective | Can Meghan and Harry make you care about Handel? 2018-05-11T04:00:00Z

This year’s oldest participant Bob Wagner, known as “Mr. Bob”, traveled from Canada to celebrate his 75th birthday on stage at the dark horse contest. Plucky air guitarists chase stringless glory at world titles in... 2018-08-25T04:00:00Z

Mr. Gobbato, who was born in Milan, compares rural South Africa to the Europe of Verdi and Wagner, “where people had to shout to each other across the fields.” Pretty Yende, a Soprano From South Africa 2013-02-01T22:37:34Z

First performed in 1843, Wagner's operatic treatment of the legend, which is recognised as his first masterpiece, was really the work in which he first revealed his potential as a composer for the stage. This week's new live music 2012-12-15T00:05:21Z

You cannot fairly assess a production of Wagner’s “Ring” until you see the entire cycle of four operas. | The Year Ahead: Met to Present Wagner?s Entire ?Ring? Cycle 2011-12-29T22:46:22Z

Even once the plot takes over — and yes, it’s more or the less same one that inspired Wagner’s opera — the cuteness quotient remains high. Kneehigh Theater's ‘Tristan & Yseult’ 2014-11-24T05:00:00Z

When Robert Wilson’s slow, spare, luminous production of Wagner’s “Lohengrin” opened at the Metropolitan Opera in 1998, it was a shocking break with the house’s prevailing aesthetic. The Story of a Production That Changed the Metropolitan Opera 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

For example, a palpable wave of disappointment surged through the internet on Saturday when it became clear that Wagner's rendition of Help Yourself wouldn't contain any bongos. The wonder of Wagner 2010-10-18T12:58:00Z

The summit will feature panels, discussions and performances at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, and culminate in a free concert in Robert Wagner Park. Yiddish Theater Plans an Immigration Arts Summit 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z

That he has a wealth of experience in Wagner’s style came through consistently. Review: James Levine Conducts ‘Tannhäuser’ at the Met 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

“Parsifal” interested him sufficiently that he went to see the opera again when it was done in Monte Carlo, and in a subsequent letter he wrote of the “great art of Wagner.” A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

In the fall, visitors are rarer, Carleton said, looking over the property from the balcony of the Wagner House, the main building in Winedale. Is Winedale historic center succumbing to neglect? 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

While revered in his home country for his theatre productions, it was Chereau's production of Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Bayreauth opera festival that attracted international attention. French director Patrice Chereau dies 2013-10-08T08:43:59Z

Festival director Katharina Wagner said that there weren’t that many female conductors in the past, and that it takes courage to learn to conduct. Bayreuth’s Wagner festival opens with 1st female conductor 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

Eulalie married Corydon Wagner II, son of a Tacoma doctor who was personal physician to several founders of the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Company, formed by a group of Minnesota businessmen. 'Lakewold' book opens door to a magnificent garden 2011-07-29T21:05:05Z

Exit monologues like that of Brünnhilde at the end of Wagner’s “Ring,” before she rides her horse into a funeral pyre to join Siegfried in death, are so expansive because they close multiple story lines. Exit Arias: What Opera Can Teach Us About Dying 2020-07-09T04:00:00Z

Robert Wagner is the suave star of “It Takes a Thief” and “Hart to Hart.” New Career for Aging Celebrities: TV Pitchman 2012-03-07T23:30:00Z

Adina, the heroine, was reading aloud from the story of Tristan when the orchestra abruptly abandoned Donizetti's delicate oom-pah-pah and lobbed in 19th-century music's most notorious hand grenade: Wagner's Tristan chord. In Two Minds: A Biography of Jonathan Miller by Kate Bassett – review 2012-12-12T08:00:01Z

Yet at Bayreuth, where many people have waited 10 years to get a coveted ticket to a performance, Ms. Wagner takes for granted that “our audience has a deep knowledge of Wagner,” she said. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

As before, Anthony Negus, one of Britain's most experienced and underrated Wagner conductors, is in the pit; the production is directed by Alan Privett. This week's new live music 2012-07-13T23:11:05Z

There are two Rings taking place here: one by Castorf and one by Wagner. Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2013-07-28T15:59:00Z

In later years, Stravinsky made a show of loathing Wagner. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

Accounts from the boat’s captain, Dennis Davern, who has maintained he witnessed an explosive, alcohol-fueled fight between Ms. Wood and Mr. Wagner immediately before her disappearance, have long stoked speculation of foul play. New Doubts in Natalie Wood’s Death: ‘I Don’t Think She Got in the Water by Herself’ 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

Like many before him, he notices that Hitler's apocalyptic policies acted out the end of Wagner's Götterdämmerung, in which the world goes up in flames. Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Celebrity by Michael Munn ? review 2012-05-17T12:35:57Z

Wagner didn’t think we were so stupid we would forget. ‘A Stone in the Mosaic’: A Director Enters the House of Wagner 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Arguing that art music arose from race-based folk cultures, Wagner describes Jewish folk music as a “sense-and-sound confounding gurgle, yodel, and cackle.” Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

It will be the Met debut of the German conductor Hartmut Haenchen, 76, who has been praised for his Wagner performances at the Bayreuth Festival and at Dutch National Opera, where he was music director. The Met Opera’s New Season: What We Want to See 2020-02-13T05:00:00Z

In addition, there is a Wagner für Kinder scheme, in which one opera – this year Tannhäuser – is given a shortened makeover for children. Bayreuth festival: Lohengrin 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

Wagner adapted Beethoven’s approach in his operas, using “leitmotifs” to organize works that lasted hours. Beethoven’s 250th Birthday: His Greatness Is in the Details 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z

An estimated 5,000 people, dressed in all white, showed up at a Parisian-inspired picnic in lower Manhattan's Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park on Thursday evening wearing masks and Marie Antoinette wigs. Dressed in white, thousands attend Parisian-inspired picnic in New York 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

It's Viola's videos that dominate visually, though, offering a parallel thread through Wagner's music drama that emphasises its links with Buddhist and Hindu sources. Tristan und Isolde 2010-09-24T20:29:00Z

He loved classical music crowd-pleasers like Mahler, Wagner and Mozart — and championed a production with the Deaf West Theater Company of Beethoven’s “Fidelio”— but he also pushed his audiences to consider work of lesser-known composers. In L.A., Dudamel’s Influence Extends Beyond the Concert Hall 2023-02-08T05:00:00Z

Natalie Wood with her husband, Robert Wagner, who was on the yacht when she drowned in November 1981. Natalie Wood's death certificate changed to reflect new uncertainty 2012-08-22T07:22:02Z

Then Mr. Nelsons conducted Wagner’s Prelude and “Liebestod” from “Tristan und Isolde,” with Ms. Opolais bravely moving beyond her vocal comfort zone to sing music associated with powerful dramatic soprano voices. Andris Nelsons Begins Tenure Leading Boston Symphony 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

The opening of the movement — with intense, barely contained tremolos in the strings and sputtered stirrings that slowly coalesce into a driving theme — recalled the stormy opening of Wagner’s “Walküre.” Music Review: Michael Tilson Thomas Opens Tanglewood 2010-07-11T22:38:00Z

Of course the Forest Bird was not supposed to be in this scene, but who cares what Wagner wrote? At Bayreuth, Boos and Dropped Jaws 2013-08-01T10:42:00Z

I didn’t see the first act of “Die Walküre,” by Wagner. The Pianist Vikingur Olafsson on Why Philip Glass Matters 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z

That is not a view shared by British music critic Norman Lebrecht, who says Wagner, in his writings and pronouncements, created cultural anti-Semitism in Germany before the term had been coined. 'Autobahn to Bayreuth' - English soprano sings for Wagner's 200th 2013-07-21T15:31:14Z

This is an unofficial "dry run" for July, when Nelsons will conduct the opening event at that shrine to Wagner, the Bayreuth Festival, with a new production of . Andris Nelsons 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z

The Staten Island Children’s Museum will demonstrate the connections at this event, which will include robotics demonstrations, Lego engineering, a solar-powered racecar, experiments from Wagner College and clowning devoted to the science of the circus. Spare Times for Children for June 6-12 2014-06-05T04:00:00Z

The deal shocked the wine world, especially since Wagner was just selling a brand, without vineyards or a winery. Two of the year’s wine scandals could have far-reaching consequences 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z

He does so in Act III, Scene 2, in a series of lengthy onstage composition lessons that serve as a thinly disguised allegory for Wagner's self-image, as aesthetic genius and great master all in one. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z

Wagner also said that Lowry should be placed in an international context, and his work assessed alongside that of peers working in the 1930s in Germany or in the postwar Soviet Union. Tate exhibition to pay homage to LS Lowry 2013-01-15T19:16:15Z

“We do a pretty rigorous background check,” Mr. Wagner said, ticking off the sorts of things the government probes like criminal records, watch lists, and customs violations. The Getaway: Speedy Airport Security: Should You Apply? 2012-10-03T15:51:40Z

The statement added: “Shortly afterwards, separate witnesses identified a man and a woman arguing on the back of the boat. The witnesses believed that the voices belonged to Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner.” New Doubts in Natalie Wood’s Death: ‘I Don’t Think She Got in the Water by Herself’ 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

At a performance of Wagner’s “Siegfried” at the Royal Opera House in March, a punch-up landed opera fans in court. Bachelorettes, Brawls and Body Cameras: A Night at the Theater in London 2019-08-13T04:00:00Z

Bellini died cruelly young, at 33, but left some of the most beautiful bel canto operas, and arguably the longest legacy, affecting everyone from Chopin to Verdi to Wagner. Perspective | What exactly is bel canto? It’s a way of singing and, for some, an addiction. 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z

However worthwhile an investment in the company's and our city's artistic growth, the expense of Wagner's four-opera cycle stalled further growth for a while. L.A. Opera opens season with flat, clumsy 'La Traviata' 2014-09-15T04:00:00Z

Ms. Battle, who made her Met debut in 1977 as the Shepherd in Wagner’s “Tannhäuser,” was particularly lauded for her Mozart and Strauss roles. You’re Unfired: Kathleen Battle Is Returning to the Met After 22 Years 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z

He liked to read adventure stories and listen to the music of Richard Wagner. 'Hitler': the mystery of the F?hrer's appeal 2012-04-11T22:26:08Z

Bruce Wagner wrote a script called Maps to the Stars; there’s a role for Rob in it, and Viggo, too. Robert Pattinson and Director David Cronenberg on Cars, Cosmopolis and Fans Who Care 2012-08-14T20:48:47Z

And then to university, where our tutor, Michael Tanner, held weekly Wagner evenings. Wagner: beauty in the eye of the beholder 2011-07-14T15:01:01Z

The perpetual-motion, Möbius-strip quality of their intertwining both matches and resists Wagner’s infinite rise along with all the other associations of those sounds. Review: In John Jasperse’s ‘Visitation,’ Mortality Seduces 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

Much of the audience in the opera house on a Domingo night came not because the company was performing Verdi or Wagner, but because Domingo was singing Otello or Siegmund. Perspective | Plácido Domingo’s reputation as a performer enabled the opera world to ignore his predatory behavior 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z

Still, Lisztomania goes a bit far in blaming the existence of Nazism and the rise of Adolf Hitler entirely on Wagner. Lisztomania: the most embarrassing historical film ever made? 2013-02-06T10:22:00Z

To me, the Wagner stuff is like an aspect of her brilliance and an aspect of her madness, at the same time. My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z

In those years, Wieland Wagner, the composer’s grandson, had stripped the stage of familiar scenic clutter, presenting a radically abstracted image. A Tale of Two Sopranos: Astrid Varnay and Birgit Nilsson 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

And – finally, magnificently – a photograph exists of Wagner standing around in his pants holding a lion by its tail. The X Factor Files: Stuart Heritage's X Factor briefing 2010-10-15T11:57:00Z

“Hey Oscars! If you don’t want to be called racist, maybe you shouldn’t play the winners off to the music of Wagner.” A Closer Look at Wagner and #OscarsSoWhite 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

Wagner says Chesnutt wasn't good at being himself, that he'd tried to kill himself several times, and "sooner or later he was probably going to be successful". Kurt Wagner on Lambchop, Nashville ? and being seen as a redneck 2012-02-10T00:00:01Z

And Captain Wagner and her peers will also eventually need to pass one of the Army’s physical diagnostic tests. The New ‘Monuments Officers’ Prepare to Protect Art Amid War 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

“As the time got closer and closer, they still hadn’t revealed where this was going to take place,” said Wagner. Delayed Seattle Van Gogh exhibit’s unclear opening date, location frustrate ticket holders 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Wagner was not a man capable of avoiding grandiloquence even when wearing carpet slippers. 'Ode to Joy': Seattle Symphony delivers a rapturous rendition of Beethoven's Ninth 2010-12-30T21:22:04Z

Yet recent renditions of Mahler’s Fifth Symphony and Act I of Wagner’s “Die Walküre” have lacked subtlety, lyricism and depth. A First for New York: New Conductors at the Met Opera and Philharmonic 2018-09-11T04:00:00Z

But Wagner’s music itself is not Ross’s topic here. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Its long title expresses an empowering anger while also recalling the magical Tarnhelm of Wagner’s “Ring,” which gave its wearer the power of invisibility. Her Art Comes Without Trigger Warnings 2022-08-18T04:00:00Z

Though Wagner is usually credited with beginning the journey towards atonality that Schoenberg continued and systematised in his 12-note method, Brahms was the great figure to whom Schoenberg was closest musically. VPO/Tilson Thomas – review 2013-04-10T17:15:01Z

Mr. Wagner eventually relocated to Phoenix and started Desert Dreams in 2005 with Michelson, whom he met in the late 1970s when working with Cooper. Dick Wagner, rock guitarist who co-wrote many of Alice Cooper’s hits, dies at 71

Mrs. Wagner, 31, works in business development at AirSwap, a digital asset trading platform, and at its parent company, Fluidity, based in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Margaret Hsu, Stuart Wagner 2018-08-19T04:00:00Z

Finally, the best story of all – that last weekend Wagner threw a monstrous diva fit because he wasn't allowed to be taken onstage in a giant golden carriage. The X Factor Files: Stuart Heritage's X Factor briefing 2010-11-19T12:42:00Z

“We just walked around telling people, ‘If you go to the cigar bar, there are joints underneath the table,’ ” said Brandon Wagner, the bridegroom. Marijuana Is a Welcome Wedding Guest in Colorado and Washington State 2014-07-25T04:00:00Z

Gowland shot more than 1,000 magazine covers, mostly glamour shots of female models but also portraits of celebrities like Rock Hudson and Robert Wagner. Fashion photographer Peter Gowland dies at 93 2010-03-29T14:46:00Z

It is famous because the sister of Frederick the Great and Wagner, but it is very calm and in a good way provincial. Trade Secrets From the Wagner Festival Whisperer 2018-08-01T04:00:00Z

Recently given the essentially new title of music director at the festival, Mr. Thielemann, rather than Ms. Wagner, was the one to bear some scattered boos at his bow. Review: Cheers, but Modest Impact, for Revisionist ‘Tristan’ 2015-07-26T04:00:00Z

Wagner died in 1883 in Venice, more than six years before Hitler’s birth in Austria. Anti-Semitic letter by Wagner sold at auction in Jerusalem 2018-04-24T04:00:00Z

“Wagner, along with many other great composers, will be a part of our future in some way,” she says. Seattle Opera returns to live performance with outdoors ‘Die Walküre’ concert 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Moreover, the concert wasn't the first Wagner performance by an Israeli orchestra. Israeli orchestra plays Wagner in Germany 2011-07-26T15:13:09Z

Even though Wagner was a rabid anti-Semite, and even though his music was blatantly misused long after his death, they argue, his art should be left to stand on its own. Daniel Barenboim’s West-Eastern Divan Orchestra Delivers 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z

In the Gallery Met itself will hang Ms. Peyton’s paintings, drawings and prints depicting many of Wagner’s mythic characters, among them Fricka and Wotan; there will also be etchings and drawings of Valkyries and Rhinemaidens. Inside Art: Cindy Sherman?s Guises All in a Single Place 2011-02-17T21:45:07Z

Whether Angela Merkel, an avid Wagner fan, is familiar with this vituperative statement is unclear, but its sentiments would hardly come as a surprise to her. The Inexorable Rise of Angela Merkel 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z

Her sound lifts Wagner’s phrases and carries easily, especially on this night in the company’s inviting 2,000-seat house, with its splendid acoustics. Christine Goerke as Brünnhilde in Wagner’s ‘Die Walküre’ 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z

Cronenberg, Wagner says, “gets into an excitation by showing things that are true and yet the worst parts of human behavior.” Bruce Wagner’s ‘Maps to the Stars’ shows dark side of sunny Hollywood 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Tristram Kenton In my childhood, I knew almost nothing about Wagner. Wagner: beauty in the eye of the beholder 2011-07-14T15:01:01Z

In the coming seasons, he is scheduled to conduct operas by composers including Wagner, Strauss, Puccini, Poulenc and Verdi — including a new production of “La Traviata” in 2018-19. Yannick Nézet-Séguin to Succeed James Levine as Met Opera’s Music Director 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z

He worked initially alongside his brother, Wieland Wagner, until his death in 1966. Wagner's grandson dies at age 90 2010-03-22T17:09:00Z

When the conductor Andris Nelsons parted ways last summer with the Bayreuth Festival, Germany’s temple to Wagner, over artistic differences, it left him with more free time in his summers. Bayreuth’s Loss Is Tanglewood’s Gain, When It Comes to Andris Nelsons 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Richard Wagner's music still commanded a huge following. Wolfgang Wagner obituary 2010-03-22T14:24:00Z

Anderson became one of the first actors to play the same character simultaneously on two shows on different networks when he reprised his Goldman role in the 1976-1978 spinoff “The Bionic Woman,” starring Lindsay Wagner. Actor Richard Anderson, boss of 'Six Million Dollar Man,' dies 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

What Ms. Gregson Wagner wants is to tell people more about her mother — a woman they may have shed tears over, a woman they didn’t even know. A Mother’s Death, a Daughter’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

His inaugural concert will include arias from Wagner and Puccini. Electric conductor 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z

Playfully, Wagner and Cronenberg allow us at first to assume that this acquaintance is mere fantasy. Cannes 2014 review: Maps to the Stars - Hollywood dreams turn queasy in David Cronenberg's brilliant nightmare 2014-05-18T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wagner stepped down after the 2008 festival following a long power struggle in which he resisted efforts to dislodge him. Wolfgang Wagner, Who Led Bayreuth Festival, Dies at 90 2010-03-22T18:08:00Z

I've known all along that Wagner was an anti-Semite, and it hasn't in the least diminished my admiration for his work. Charlie Rose, Louis C.K., Kevin Spacey: Rebuked. Now What Do We Do With Their Work? 2017-11-24T05:00:00Z

And, after a long absence of large-scale productions, there are two of Wagner’s immense “Tristan und Isolde,” with A-list singers and creative teams to match, running at the same time in Munich and Aix-en-Provence, France. Opera Roars Back With Dueling Wagner Premieres 2021-07-06T04:00:00Z

As he recalls, processions from the west door of the abbey up to the high altar took 10 minutes, which was perfect for the Prelude to Wagner’s “Meistersinger.” Harry Bicket, Conducting Mozart’s ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z

He eventually came under the adoring patronage of the young King Ludwig II of Bavaria, a morbidly aesthetic man-boy who remained spellbound by Wagner’s art for the rest of his short life. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Wagner may not be as long as you think. Looking for your next binge-watching marathon? Try 17 hours of opera. 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

They include the bicentenaries of Wagner and Verdi and and the centenary of Benjamin Britten's birth. Barenboim heads up RPS nominations 2014-04-15T16:04:04Z

Nike Wagner suffered a bitter defeat in a family power struggle over Germany's Bayreuth Festival, which is dedicated to the operas of her great-grandfather, Richard Wagner. Wagner descendant heads a music fest -- Beethoven, not Bayreuth 2014-11-07T05:00:00Z

The words Sachs uses at the end were prompted by Wagner’s wife, Cosima, who felt that it needed to be underlined. After 24 Years, a Conductor Returns to the Met Opera 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Wagner is played at Nazi state occasions and is heard regularly on propaganda newsreels. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

The first show this season is Wagner's "Das Rheingold" on Oct. Met opera adds 300 theaters to its HD broadcasts 2010-08-31T23:02:00Z

Wagner’s “Siegfried Idyll” and Haydn’s last symphony complete a weighty program under the conductor Harry Bicket. Opera & Classical Music Listings for Jan. 9-15 2015-01-08T05:00:00Z

The program, which will be repeated Thursday, included works by conservatives like Medtner and Joseph Marx and more daring composers like Szymanowski, Schreker and Berg, who continued Wagner’s assault on tonality. Music Review: Stirring the Late Romantics? Libido 2010-02-18T00:40:00Z

In NI Opera's first Wagner production, described as "the first fully staged Dutchman to be seen in Northern Ireland for generations", there was no certainty as to how this theatrical voyage would unfold. The Flying Dutchman; Medea – review 2013-02-24T00:07:18Z

Sonia and Wagner also spent a lot of time discussing how to best reflect the spirit of her work in the space. Yael Sonia's Luxe New York Showroom 2014-02-20T05:00:00Z

Perhaps it was this performance of the climactic Immolation Scene from Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung,” sung with a frightening blend of ferocity and euphoria by the soprano Christine Goerke. Think Outside the Opera House, and Inside the Parking Garage 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z

In November 1981 the actor drowned off a Californian island while staying on a boat with Walken and her husband Robert Wagner. Christopher Walken: 'I'm a regular guy' 2013-03-21T19:00:03Z

Pianist Walt Wagner, 73, who built a following as a different kind of “piano man,” is leaving Canlis restaurant, and Sub Pop Records will document his final show Sunday, Oct. Walt Wagner, longtime Canlis pianist, is retiring ... and Sub Pop will be there to document it 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

Just as a listener is rewarded with sublime orchestral music after surviving one of Wagner’s more interminable monologues, Feldman’s score shifts gears just about when you reach your breaking point. Music Review: A Marathon Performance (Aches, Too) 2014-04-29T21:11:41Z

Wagner phoned authorities around 1.30am to report his wife missing. Natalie Wood: reinvestigating the mysterious death of a movie star 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

Davern said he heard Wagner and Wood arguing and its outcome had horrific consequences. Natalie Wood detectives face conflicting accounts 2011-11-19T12:47:11Z

This was how one critic described Richard Wagner’s “Tristan and Isolde”, which in 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of its first performance. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

The interconnected series of “Trillium” operas place him in the lineage of Wagner and Stockhausen. Operas by Black Composers Have Long Been Ignored. Explore 8. 2019-09-19T04:00:00Z

The lights go down, and the orchestra intones the low E flat that to Wagner’s ears was the sound of the birth of the world. Music Review: A ‘Ring’ Fit for a Time of Austerity 2012-07-17T12:00:00Z

At the free public viewing, locals – 70% of whom admitted in a recent survey they had never seen a Wagner opera – are invited to watch high culture while devouring sausages, beer and pretzels. The battle for?Bayreuth 2010-08-23T20:46:00Z

Because Wagner wanted the anvils to emit specific pitches, no hardware-store model would do. Richard Horowitz, Renowned Timpanist and Craftsman of Conductors’ Batons, Dies at 91 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z

But changes in musical technology have been continuous and profound through the ages, such that there can be revelatory performances of “period Beethoven” or “period Wagner” — or period Debussy! 10 Classical Concerts to Stream in April 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z

The real star of the series, though, is Brittany Wagner, the athletic academic adviser, who struggles, sometimes heartbreakingly, to get the players to take their classes seriously. Football Intrigue? Don’t Look at the N.F.L. 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z

Speaking between rehearsals in the lead-up to the premiere, Kim outlined her plans, saying she would start by staging an opera by Verdi and one by Wagner, each season. She’s Making History in Opera. Can She Help Ensure Its Future? 2021-10-19T04:00:00Z

Recalls Wagner wryly, “I think when I entered the picture, you stopped winning Grammys, and you stopped making money.” Why Lily Tomlin said yes to 'Intelligent Life' without her 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Anderson became one of the first actors to play the same character simultaneously on two shows on different networks when he reprised his Goldman role in the 1976-1978 spinoff "The Bionic Woman," starring Lindsay Wagner. Actor Richard Anderson, boss of 'Six Million Dollar Man,' dies 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

It was Lindsay Peoples Wagner’s “childhood dream” to become an editor, she said. The Imperial Editor Goes the Way of the Dodo 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

“I wasn’t there that night, and they called me at the hotel,” says Wagner. Why Lily Tomlin said yes to 'Intelligent Life' without her 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Mounting any Wagner opera properly is a massive undertaking. Virginia Opera mounts a high-flying ‘Dutchman’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Both shows were created with her longtime partner and collaborator, Jane Wagner. Honors Class of ’14: Al Green, Tom Hanks, Patricia McBride, Lily Tomlin, Sting

In addition to increasing the funding and establishing a separate foundation to oversee the composer's library, Wagner also invited directors from abroad to direct individual operas. Wolfgang Wagner, longtime Bayreuth director, dies 2010-03-22T07:59:00Z

Even without underlining Elgar’s Wagnerian ties to the Austro-Germanic tradition, one still needs “a great warmth in the strings, and the brass as in Wagner, supporting, very rarely overwhelming.” A Critic’s First Orchestra Defines Britain’s Musical Soul 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

Perhaps we know enough about Wagner's attitudes, and there is no need to dwell on them at length when plenty of books on this subject exist already. Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad – review 2013-02-19T12:10:12Z

"On one side, he is giving what Wagner wrote, but at other points not, and I think that is the most disturbing for people because they never know what they will get." Take that, dragon: Siegfried blasts Fafner for Wagner's 200th 2013-07-29T22:39:03Z

FRI-SUN Gardens in bloom, displays, exhibits and activities in the Wagner House, 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z

Music in “Fella” isn’t just ornament; it’s oxygen, the way it is in operas by Puccini, Strauss and even Wagner. Theater Review: ‘The Most Happy Fella’ Is Revived at City Center 2014-04-03T23:17:30Z

Anderson became one of the first actors to play the same character simultaneously on two shows on different networks when he reprised his Goldman role in the 1976-1978 spinoff “The Bionic Woman,” starring Lindsay Wagner. Actor Richard Anderson, boss of 'Six Million Dollar Man,' dies 2017-08-31T04:00:00Z

Wagner evidently finds it difficult to talk about his friend. Kurt Wagner on Lambchop, Nashville ? and being seen as a redneck 2012-02-10T00:00:01Z

Alan Gilbert began the event at Avery Fisher Hall, where the stage was decorated with red flowers, by conducting a full-blooded rendition of the Prelude to Act I of Wagner’s “Meistersinger.” Music Review: Crazy Little Thing Called Love, in Some of Its Many Variations 2011-02-15T22:29:38Z

The tradition of British Wagner singing, passed from Reginald Goodall to Tomlinson and his generation, continues on its exciting journey down the Rhine. Don Carlo; Gods and Heroes – review 2013-05-11T23:07:35Z

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler's affinity for the composer can also make the performance of Wagner's work a tricky undertaking. Conductor Adam Fischer: Wagner's music like "opium" 2012-06-21T15:12:29Z

She extended her body just in front of a hollow beneath part of the set for Wagner’s “Rheingold.” Arts & Leisure Preview: The Valhalla Machine 2010-09-17T16:10:00Z

It is a beautifully written and at times harmonically daring piece that boldly goes against the progressivism of Wagner, while occasionally revealing his influence – as well as looking to Berlioz and Bizet. Le Roi Malgré Lui – review 2012-10-29T13:12:00Z

SALZBURG, Austria — About a week ago, I was chatting at the Salzburg Festival with a friend who had seen the German director Sven-Eric Bechtolf’s recent staging of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle in Vienna. A ‘Don Giovanni’ in Salzburg, Heavy on the Shallow 2014-08-18T04:00:00Z

In the end, that type of intergenerational play is what reunions are about, Ms. Wagner said. This Life: Just One Big, Happy Family? 2013-08-30T20:36:44Z

Ms. Wagner took some time to warm up, and occasionally she seemed overly calculated in her singing. Review: Met Opera’s Next Music Director Captains a Blazing ‘Dutchman’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

So Müller and his colleagues — including Max Wagner, the Gasteig’s director — have examined potential models elsewhere. A Temporary Concert Hall Hopes for a Permanent Audience 2021-10-12T04:00:00Z

In this epic endeavour, Wagner's gods may be flawed, but the mortals who sing them need to be more truly super-human. Proms 14 & 15: Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2013-07-27T23:07:04Z

The Italianate overture, which begins with a ringing tambourine and festive percussion, isn’t recognizably Wagner. Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

All in all, the orchestra was, as Wagner intended, a character in its own right, one as anxious, unstable and fascinating as Schwarz’s conception at its best. At Bayreuth, the Work on Wagner’s Operas Is Never Done 2023-08-01T04:00:00Z

For me, the immediate intakes of breath concern Debussy's prominence and Verdi's outrunning Wagner. The top 10 composers of all time 2011-01-24T14:09:45Z

“It is thanks particularly to Wolfgang Wagner that the Bayreuth festival is a hallmark of Bavaria and a magnet for visitors from around the world.” Wolfgang Wagner, Who Led Bayreuth Festival, Dies at 90 2010-03-22T18:08:00Z

The death stunned Hollywood and made headlines around the world, putting her marriage to Wagner and the events of the weekend under a microscope. Natalie Wood: drowning reclassified by US coroner 2013-01-14T21:09:00Z

As we walked, Wagner discussed each animal’s history and personality. Rescued wolves have a safe space in the Pennsylvania woods 2020-02-04T05:00:00Z

The one has always required the other — from the Baroque spectacle of 17th-century operas, with their deus-ex-machina gimmickry, to the stagecraft required to mount any contemporary production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle. David Lang’s ‘whisper opera’ Mines Truths From the Web 2013-08-02T18:57:04Z

“Her bed and her sheets smelled like her,” said Ms. Gregson Wagner, who is petite at 5-foot-2 and with almond-shaped brown eyes, bears more than a passing resemblance to her mother. A Mother’s Death, a Daughter’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

Wagner played the role of Nancy Hughes on the CBS soap opera for the past 54 years and uttered the show's first words when it premiered in 1956. Soap opera actress Helen Wagner dies at 91 2010-05-03T16:51:00Z

Again, Wagner and Verdi might be drawn together here, as Falstaff, like Die Meistersinger, constantly looks back nostalgically into the musical past. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z

He was later a series producer of the award-winning “Eyes on the Prize,” a program on the civil rights movement, and directed documentaries about the Great Depression and Wagner’s “Ring” cycle. ‘Oppenheimer’ Fans Are Rediscovering a 40-Year-Old Documentary 2023-07-27T04:00:00Z

While it may be coincidental that two “painterly” Wagner productions are going up within a month — and 140 miles — of each other, these are not isolated occurrences. Painting Wagner: Celebrated Artists’ New Work for the Opera Stage 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z

In the TV series Hart to Hart, Robert Wagner played an amateur sleuth who with his wife, played by Stefanie Powers, investigated murder and intrigue among Los Angeles jet-setters. Natalie Wood: reinvestigating the mysterious death of a movie star 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z

The previous work on it even allowed Stone to be double booked for the 2021 festival, directing “Innocence” and Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde.” with relatively little friction. A Reigning Opera Composer Writes of Trauma and ‘Innocence’ 2021-07-02T04:00:00Z

There should have been no better time to start than this, the company’s 350th anniversary, which was to have culminated this fall with a splashy new production of Wagner’s epic “Ring” cycle. Running the Paris Opera Was Never Going to Be Easy. But Come On. 2020-11-18T05:00:00Z

A late Romantic in the mold of Liszt and Wagner, Bartók became a modernist through his study both of pre-tonal folk music from Hungary and other countries, and of post-tonal incorporation of dissonance. CD reviews: Bartók by heart, for the heart 2016-11-10T05:00:00Z

Wagner was a revolutionary, unlike his often unimaginative fans. Bayreuth festival: Lohengrin 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

In his stead came Christian Thielemann, one of very few conductors to have led all 10 of Wagner’s mature operas at Bayreuth. Review: Berlin Takes Wagner’s Approach to Staging the ‘Ring’ 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

“We said, we should do Wagner, and do Wagner with a live orchestra,” he recalled. A Student Startup and Its Outsize Wagnerian Dream 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

"It's a huge resource for this community on all sorts of levels," said Wagner, whose sudden termination in 2009 without stated cause, after 14 years heading Giant Magnet, drew community protests. Giant Magnet attracts Chinese troupes for final year of fest 2011-05-06T21:33:05Z

Texas-born Wagner, who also played several roles on Broadway, died on Saturday. Soap opera actress Helen Wagner dies at 91 2010-05-03T16:51:00Z

Wagner serves as a portentous soundtrack, as the journey reaches the end of the first world war, and the series braces itself for what followed – and the role art played in that. Tonight's TV highlights: Coronation Street 2010-12-06T00:05:00Z

The Wagner composition is featured in a prominent sequence in the earlier movie after Lt. A Pop-Culture Glossary for ‘Da 5 Bloods’ 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z

But three times, these poltergeist noises are exchanged for orchestral music by Wagner. Review: In John Jasperse’s ‘Visitation,’ Mortality Seduces 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

Every work, performer and composer is listed on the archive, allowing the discovery that, for example, Wagner is the most performed composer at the Proms, far ahead of Beethoven in second place. In praise of ? the Proms online archive 2010-07-07T23:05:00Z

There’s a famous anecdote about a visit between the young Camille Saint-Saëns — at the time a rising Parisian composer and gifted performer — and the German composer he respected so much, Richard Wagner. Seattle Symphony ends season with Wagner, Saint-Saëns 2013-06-25T18:30:10Z

Mr. Runnicles, an acclaimed conductor of Wagner and Strauss, draws exceptional playing from the Atlanta Symphony, rich with mellow sound and controlled intensity. On the Disc, Not the Stage 2010-09-03T15:19:00Z

But there will always be Verdi, Puccini, Wagner and others. The Met Is Planning a Big Bet on Contemporary Opera 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

It is certainly the Wagner opera with the most vexed afterlife. Review: A New ‘Meistersinger’ in Bayreuth Stars Wagner 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z

In the interim, Wagner had completed the score of Tristan und Isolde. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z

More than 500 people posted comments online, most in support of Mr. Wagner. Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

A spectre haunts the scene: the spectre of Wagner. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

But beyond that, the movie is a gush of gorgeous images and music, from Wagner to a recurrent excerpt of “Bang Bang,” sung by the Egyptian-born French pop diva Dalida, who committed suicide in 1987. | 'Heartbeats': Three to a Bed, but No Funny Stuff 2011-02-25T01:16:10Z

Still, the absorption, as Mr. Levine put it, radiating from the classic Wagner recordings keeps fans like me going back to them. Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z

Mr. Dausgaard drew a spectrum of colors from the orchestra, including a grainy French sound in the Ravel, an alluring lightness in Wagner and broody suppressed passion in Sibelius. Music Review: Swedish Chamber Orchestra and Nina Stemme at Alice Tully Hall 2013-04-26T22:53:14Z

Like the monarchy, the survival of the Wagner festival into the modern era is a triumph of art over reason. Bayreuth's King Lear | Martin Kettle 2010-03-23T09:30:00Z

It shares with Wagner’s ‘Parsifal’ this idea of the wound of the world, and of a piece of music that can heal with its caress.” Uplifting music, deep themes: Seattle Symphony to perform Elgar’s ‘Dream of Gerontius’ 2016-11-27T05:00:00Z

Wagner was represented by two of his "Wesendonck-Lieder," whose chromatic harmonies hint strongly at "Tristan." Nina Stemme ignites Houston's 'Tristan' 2013-04-28T15:11:09Z

“When we first started talking about this, we said, ‘We’ve done this twice, maybe we just sign the papers,’ ” Wagner says. We were ‘married.’ Yet the Supreme Court ruling made us want an ‘I re-do!’ 2015-11-27T05:00:00Z

I first discovered Wagner, indeed discovered opera, through “Tristan.” Review | If ever there was a moment for Richard Wagner, it is 2020 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

There is something, however much it pains me to admit it, about the Tories and Wagner. Michael Gove and George Osborne love Wagner. So why doesn't passion turn into policy? 2012-11-13T12:38:00Z

I remember devouring its catalogues of black labels and bootlegs as a teenager, planning purchases of dodgy Wagner recordings from unknown Italian firms and knowing the joy of total record-collector geekery. Don't let independent classical music shops become a thing of the past 2010-07-28T14:17:00Z

Rick Olson, the former mayor of McMinnville and one of Yamhill County’s three commissioners at the Wagner hearing, met me at the Red Fox Bakery downtown for a cup of coffee. Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

He explored both dimensions — the way Wagner looks both forward and back — but seemed especially concerned with making clear the score’s debts to earlier opera, a refreshing approach. Review: Met Opera’s Next Music Director Captains a Blazing ‘Dutchman’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Monika Ritterhaus In Germany last month, Wagner, never far from the nation's headlines, was in the news again, with a death in the family. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z

Notwithstanding success in Wagner and Strauss, the credentials of a Munich general music director would be incomplete without Mozart expertise. Opera Review: No Beauty Goes Unexplored in ‘La Clemenza di Tito’ 2014-02-17T16:05:54Z

When we see Wagner muddling up the lyrics of Bat Out Of Hell and accidentally blurting out "Like a gnat of a bell", we actually see ourselves. What can we learn from 2010's reality TV shows? 2010-12-27T11:30:00Z

The occasion was the fourth and final installment of the festival’s new production of Wagner’s “Ring,” the most anticipated event of the international celebrations for Wagner’s bicentennial. At Bayreuth, Boos and Dropped Jaws 2013-08-01T10:42:00Z

Mr. Petrenko’s Wagner is not quite like any I have heard before. In a Wagnerian Whirlwind, One Conductor Breaks Through 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

In addition to being a dedicated bibliophile, Scheide was a musician and musicologist; his library contains autographed music manuscripts by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, and Wagner. Princeton Receives a $300 Million Gift of Rare Books 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z

So I am looking forward to the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Wagner’s “Parsifal.” Looking Ahead: Culture Picks for 2013 2012-12-27T23:05:33Z

Wagner and Grant had pitched a story idea to DC Comics, which Kennedy would draw. Comic lawman Dredd's Scots roots 2012-08-14T05:37:40Z

The second day, exclusively on the James Wagner Stage on the Midway Plaisance, will run from 1 to 7 p.m. Hyde Park Jazz Festival bulks up for the fall 2011-04-25T13:55:00Z

The resulting conflicts, humiliations, and recriminations raise the drama to a high pitch that Wagner nonetheless keeps at a just-so simmer. Revisiting “Moment by Moment,” Lily Tomlin and John Travolta’s Wrongly Despised 1978 Melodrama 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Mr. Kaufmann’s voice has evolved in typical ways: youthful lightness, suitable for Mozart, giving way to depth more fitting for Verdi and Wagner. After 4 Years, Jonas Kaufmann Returns to the Met Opera 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z

It is here, perhaps, Mr. Wagner made a critical misstep. Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Bassett has been closely involved with Wagner’s Ring Cycle in Australia, as well in a tour of the recent Robert Lepage production. Spare Times Listings for April 3-9 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z

Photograph: Ingo Wagner/EPA Times are going to be tough over the next few years for those employed in the theatre industry. Can cruise ships keep the theatre industry afloat? 2010-08-31T11:08:00Z

It was Baudelaire, from after he saw Wagner’s “Tannhaüser”: “I’ve witnessed a spectacle of time, space and light that I have never experienced before.” The Story of a Production That Changed the Metropolitan Opera 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

Unlike Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, this couple is fully aware that they are betraying their king and their oaths. Review: To a Rare King Arthur Opera, Bard Says ‘Welcome Back’ 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

Actress Helen Wagner, who played mild-mannered Nancy Hughes on the CBS soap opera "As the World Turns" for more than a half-century and spoke its first words, has died at age 91. 'As the World Turns' matriarch Wagner dies at 91 2010-05-03T01:59:00Z

The man in fact was Henry Willson, a wellknown Hollywood agent who also masterminded the early careers of Rock Hudson and Robert Wagner. Rhonda Fleming, 'Queen of Technicolor' in the 1940s and 50s, dies aged 97 2020-10-17T04:00:00Z

And they have proved that Wagner, like most opera, does not have to be gargantuan to succeed. Der Ring des Nibelungen - review 2013-06-24T10:32:45Z

The festival will also feature “Gods and Mortals,” a staged Wagner concert that will feature Owens, and “To the World,” featuring global popular music theater hits. Glimmerglass Festival to Stage Its Operas Outdoors This Summer 2021-03-01T05:00:00Z

I would be remiss to omit the album that first lured my ear to Wagner during my agnostic instrumentalist adolescence. Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z

This is the root of my problem with Wagner. Composer Thomas Adès: 'Wagner is a fungus' 2012-09-28T21:48:01Z

With sumptuous costumes designed by Pelly himself, it looked stylish, and for a work that lasts four and a half hours and is not Wagner that is a mercy. Robert le diable; Basca awards; Queen's Medal for Music – review 2012-12-09T00:07:19Z

The opening night audience, used to hyper-naturalistic Wagner productions, rebelled with a storm of boos. Review: A Blunt New ‘Lohengrin’ at the Met Stars a Shining Knight 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

Kohler's latest book, entitled "The Laughing Wagner" in German, paints an altogether different picture of Wagner from the grim anti-Semite. Wagner: reviled and revered, German history and music entwined 2013-01-27T08:06:07Z

It’s a superb romantic melodrama that should have propelled Wagner into the front ranks of Hollywood directors and advanced its stars’ careers, as well. Revisiting “Moment by Moment,” Lily Tomlin and John Travolta’s Wrongly Despised 1978 Melodrama 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Wagner later sanctioned many cuts to make the piece more doable. Music Review: Wagner?s ?Rienzi? From Opera Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-02-01T00:07:03Z

A full orchestra and professional singers sang bleeding chunks, which is the way most people start on Wagner, with skateboards, silly monsters and a pillow fight added for good measure. Bayreuth festival: Lohengrin 2010-07-31T23:06:00Z

A daunting program of Beethoven, Debussy, Berg, Weill and, yes, Wagner, gave Ms. Melton, 33, plenty of opportunities to play to her considerable strengths. Review: Heidi Melton Debuts With a Daunting Recital Program 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

The festival, also known as the Richard Wagner Festival, dates back to 1876 and consists of opera performances such as "Tristan und Isolde" composed in the 19th century. Wagner's grandson dies at age 90 2010-03-22T17:09:00Z

But four years after this she was finding Wagner oppressive: “My eyes are bruised, my ears dulled, my brain a mere pudding of pulp.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

For Wagner, the happiest of endings – death and transfiguration. A to Z of Wagner: D is for death 2013-03-12T10:21:44Z

“We are all in a situation like Wagner,” Mr. Herheim said. Full-Scale Wagner Returns to Europe With a Refugee-Theme ‘Walküre’ 2020-09-25T04:00:00Z

These days with his short, neatly trimmed gray beard, he could easily be cast as a supernumerary in a Wagner production. Alan Hollinghurst?s ?Stranger?s Child? Is a Departure 2011-10-31T21:57:27Z

“Our intention here is not to exalt Wagner,” Mr. Sanders, the festival organizer, said. Los Angeles Opera Company?s ?Ring? Festival 2010-06-20T23:29:00Z

The season will also feature the final two installments of Wagner’s “Ring,” with the entire cycle scheduled for performances in April and May. Met Opera Plans ?Anna Bolena? and ?Faust? 2011-02-16T22:58:44Z

In my reviews and other stories, I try to explain, for example, why Schubert was absolutely great; why Debussy; why Wagner. The Case for Greatness in Classical Music 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z

He graduated from Manhattan College and received an M.B.A. from Wagner College. When the Timing Is Finally Right 2019-09-28T04:00:00Z

Ludwig really did have an escapist imagination, supported Wagner in his operatic excesses and blew his fortune on building Versailles-style castles. Valhalla! 2010-07-12T20:31:00Z

Even in “Game of Thrones,” as soon as it’s medieval, it has to sound like Wagner. ‘A Stone in the Mosaic’: A Director Enters the House of Wagner 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

In the event, the future belonged to Wagner, not to Berlioz. Forgotten Berlioz: Rom?o et Juliette 2012-02-09T23:00:02Z

Allen’s character in “Manhattan Murder Mystery” jokes that he can’t listen to Wagner because it makes him “want to invade Poland.” Is Woody Allen a Great Filmmaker? Discuss 2018-02-21T05:00:00Z

“I’m both a composer and sound designer, so I was pleased to get to work with this Wagner piece,” he said. The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: The World-Ending Sounds of 'Melancholia' 2011-12-07T17:00:13Z

However, the concert won't be the first Wagner performance by an Israeli orchestra. Israeli orchestra to play Wagner in Germany 2011-07-25T11:26:08Z

New conductor Andris Nelsons puts the Boston Symphony Orchestra through its paces with works by Wagner, et al., on a new edition of "Great Performances." TV This Week May 24 - 30: 'The Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe' 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z

"Mr. Wagner has been interviewed on multiple occasions by the Los Angeles sheriff's department and answered every single question asked of him by detectives during those interviews." Robert Wagner not interviewed in new Wood inquiry 2013-01-18T00:00:12Z

He directed numerous movies, plays and operas, including at the renowned annual Richard Wagner festival in Bayreuth, Germany, and in Manaus, Brazil. German director Schlingensief dies at age 49 2010-08-21T17:15:00Z

Right now there's a class at Emory University about Wagner and Nietzsche, co-taught by a philosophy professor and a music professor. Atlanta's Robert Spano, familiar to 'Ring' fans, conducts Seattle Symphony 2010-04-21T22:58:00Z

I have no passion for the work of figures like Wagner or Bruckner... Proms week 1 in review 2012-07-17T16:32:23Z

So for six months, Wagner waited and waited … and waited. Delayed Seattle Van Gogh exhibit’s unclear opening date, location frustrate ticket holders 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Still, Mr. Domingo’s evolution into a Wagner tenor was accomplished by sheer determination. Jonas Kaufmann, Scaling Wagnerian Mountaintops 2010-06-04T15:14:00Z

For a predominantly symphonic conductor, there’s a remarkable amount of Wagner. Jaap van Zweden: Before You See Him, Listen 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z

SUN Learn the basics from Paul "Cheoketen" Wagner, Native American flute player and storyteller; flutes available to borrow or buy, 1 p.m. Community calendar 2012-02-15T23:01:04Z

No less an authority than the composer Richard Wagner, also one of the first modern conductors, said the “whole duty of a conductor is comprised in his ability always to indicate the right tempo.” Breaking Conductors? Down by Gesture and Body Part 2012-04-06T12:00:28Z

He also wrote and narrated two sets of CDs for the Metropolitan Opera Guild: “Talking About ‘The Ring,’” about Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelung,” and “Talking About ‘La Traviata.’” Peter Allen, a Voice on the Radio for the Met Opera, Dies at 96 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z

I don't just mean the pleasure the reader gets from reading about Wagner's vanity; I also mean Conrad's relish in describing it, and then contrasting it with Verdi's almost saintly modesty. Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad – review 2013-02-19T12:10:12Z

It explores Richard Wagner's interest in Buddhism and takes place in the imagined final moments of Wagner's life, in which he has a vision of a Buddhist opera, which he would never compose. Jonathan Harvey obituary 2012-12-05T21:16:32Z

And however well one knows 's Wagner conducting from disc, its immediacy and fluency live are still overwhelming. Die Walküre – review 2013-07-24T09:29:47Z

Wagner is really ... our greatest musical miniaturist who compresses an infinity of meaning and sweetness into the smallest space. Wagner: beauty in the eye of the beholder 2011-07-14T15:01:01Z

He also has extended the roles of minor characters far beyond Wagner's original libretto, and invented entirely new ones. Take that, dragon: Siegfried blasts Fafner for Wagner's 200th 2013-07-29T22:39:03Z

“You imagine a kid with the Wagner in 1909 using it to put his gum in and then throwing it away,” he said. Jeff Daniels Takes a Baseball Break From ‘Blackbird’ 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

Wagner may have famously called it the apotheosis of the dance, but Kahane revealed it more like the apotheosis of the Greek epic — bigger than, but every moment infused with, life. Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra serves up a sandwich of sad and sweet 2016-09-26T04:00:00Z

The orchestra has ventured into opera in the past, with projects like a 2004 production of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde,” with video by Bill Viola. Music Review: ‘Don Giovanni,’ Los Angeles Philharmonic and Gustavo Dudamel 2012-05-27T22:36:40Z

There are only so many notes for a biographer to hit: his intense friendships with Wagner and Lou Salome, the intellectual it-girl of her time, muse to Rilke and Freud. A Life of Nietzsche Turns the Spotlight on an Idol Long Misunderstood 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z

The authors explain, for example, how the straight-arrow Wolfram in Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” takes on a surprisingly sensual authority when he sings. Books of The Times: ‘A History of Opera,’ by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker 2012-12-27T22:03:04Z

This is something more than the habitual matter of trying to reconcile a great artist with his vile politics, as with Richard Wagner or W. B. Yeats. Philip Johnson, the Man Who Made Architecture Amoral 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z

What matters most with this sublime Wagner masterpiece is the musical performance. Looking Ahead: Culture Picks for 2013 2012-12-27T23:05:33Z

Tantalizingly, as detailed in the current program book, a 1953 letter to Christie from Wagner’s granddaughter, Friedelind, indicated interest on the part of her brother Wieland in staging operas at Glyndebourne. Opera Review: On Opposite Shores: 'Meistersinger' and 'Rosenkavalier' 2011-05-24T18:30:06Z

Then when we do a new production of a Wagner opera, or we go back to a Verdi work, everybody is seeing it differently. The Met Is Planning a Big Bet on Contemporary Opera 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z

These feelings, the curators argue, were “national” ones because the popularity of Wagner’s music helped embed them in the German national consciousness, especially after the unification of Germany in 1871. Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

The young Dame Sutherland initially thought she was a mezzo, too, and after extending herself into the soprano range she first thought herself destined for dramatic roles, Wagner included. Obituary: Soprano Joan Sutherland was opera legend 2010-10-12T03:18:00Z

Wagner would have thought it strange not to translate “Parsifal” into English for an audience in London. Music Review: A Wagnerian Quest in Proper English 2011-02-17T22:57:54Z

It's interesting that the celebrities on offer in the musical meat market straddle many leagues of fame, from the visually pleasing and talented Olympian Louis Smith to, er, X Factor hopeful of yore Wagner. TV highlights 18/12/2012 2012-12-17T19:59:01Z

Wagner seeps through every page of the Poème; it's like a yearning, doomed love scene from one of his operas with – instead of a soprano – the gleaming song of Ysaÿe's violin. LPO Music in the Courtyard - programme notes 2012-08-29T21:53:45Z

In a pre-emptive celebration of next year's Wagner bicentenary, the cycle is getting four complete performances during the next few weeks at the Royal Opera House. Keith Warner on his Royal Opera House Ring Cycle 2012-09-26T19:00:02Z

And Twain, because he said “Wagner’s music is much better than it sounds,” which I think is the greatest joke ever made. John Cleese Intends to Have His Unread Books Buried With Him 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z

It’s not a typical week in Germany when a staging of Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung” on the composer’s own turf at the Bayreuth Festival finds itself outdone for world-consuming sadness, rage and the possibility of redemption. At Darmstadt, the Avant-Garde Rivals Wagner’s ‘Ring’ 2023-08-13T04:00:00Z

Natalie’s sister Lana Wood, estranged from the Wagner family and painted as untrustworthy by the film, has long called Natalie’s death a “murder” and called for Robert to “tell the truth once and for all”. 'A short but vibrant life': revisiting the life and death of Natalie Wood 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wagner’s alter ego, Bud Wiggins — the hapless screenwriter hero of “Force Majeure” — puts in one of the more engaging appearances here. Book Of The Times: Book Review: ‘Dead Stars,’ by Bruce Wagner 2012-08-10T06:30:09Z

He laughed, then added, “And the theme from Wagner’s ‘Parsifal’ was always playing.” The Last Living Bohemian in Chelsea Tells All 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z

World war one veteran Arlen Wagner is on a train there, where he'll be working on a highway bridge that will "conquer the ocean". The Cypress House by Michael Koryta ? review 2011-02-20T00:12:00Z

And we will see that change taking place in our programming; schools won’t just be producing conductors who want to do Wagner, Strauss and Mahler. Black Artists on How to Change Classical Music 2020-07-16T04:00:00Z

“Wagner is my favorite, but you don’t conduct Wagner unless you’re either a star or the music director of the theater,” Mr. Crutchfield said. Music: Will Crutchfield, Preaching the Gospel of Bel Canto 2010-07-03T17:17:00Z

He may be gone, lost soon to the world of the inevitable reality show, but I'll miss you, Wagner. The X Factor 2010: the lessons we've learnt from this year's show 2010-12-10T12:08:00Z

Simon Rattle, who has been conducting Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” at the Metropolitan Opera, takes a night to lead the Philadelphians in Mahler’s mighty Sixth Symphony. Classical Music Listings for Oct. 7-13 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z

The standard objections to the other Wagner operas don't apply here. Mastering Die Meistersinger 2010-06-03T21:59:00Z

"Well, he is a master of mood," says Wagner. LS Lowry: the people's artist comes in from the cold 2013-06-08T23:05:10Z

Wagner is survived by his two daughters and a son, Gottfried. Bayreuth leader Wagner dies at 90 2010-03-22T12:35:00Z

“It is pretty, dare I say, f**king bad,” Wagner says wryly. “The Circus” host calls Steve Bannon’s propaganda film “a cinematic reach-around” 2018-09-17T04:00:00Z

Without a staging, the performance focused squarely on Wagner’s innovative instrumental sonorities; it was a revelation made possible by the pared-down format. Dear Met Opera: Please, More Concerts Like This Berlioz 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z

Less brawny but just as tireless are the players in Jane M. Wagner’s “Break the Game,” an innovative film constructed from excerpts from a vast accumulation of livestream recordings on the gaming website Twitch. The Tribeca Festival Has a Story to Tell 2023-06-07T04:00:00Z

Your famous quote is that “pigeonholes are for pigeons” and you have done everything from Baroque operas to Wagner. ArtsBeat: Jessye Norman Talks About ‘Stand Up Straight and Sing!’ 2014-05-06T16:27:37Z

“Frida” enjoys a healthy helping of Weill, Bernstein and Sondheim, with a little Stravinsky, Wagner and Tchaikovsky gleefully thrown in. Death haunts Frida Kahlo's long and clumsily winding road to the lyric stage 2017-06-18T04:00:00Z

Uncommonly versatile, his roles ranged from Florestan in Beethoven's Fidelio to main characters in operas composed by Verdi, Wagner, and Richard Strauss. South African tenor Johan Botha dies at age 51 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

As he threw his head back and opened his arms for the climactic utterance of the name "Wälse", it was as if Wagner had found his ideal Siegmund. Proms 14 & 15: Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2013-07-27T23:07:04Z

I love the conversations about Wagner in the film! My mentally ill sister 2012-06-02T00:00:00Z

Briefly a student at the Cleveland Institute of Art and a disciple of the renowned folk artist the Rev. Albert Wagner, Mr. Lovelace has become something of a local treasure. What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week 2018-05-31T04:00:00Z

But Varnay went as far as any latter-day singer into Wagner’s shadowy, lustrous world. A Tale of Two Sopranos: Astrid Varnay and Birgit Nilsson 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

After the accident, the artist Mark Wagner reached out to Powers with a gift. He Lost Fingers in an Accident. Now It’s Inspiring His Art. 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

“Dutchman,” on the other hand, is the earliest of Wagner’s works frequently performed and shows a composer still finding his way. Met opera gets visionary new “Dutchman” 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

She is also the vocal director and a founder of the Wagner Theater Program in Manhattan, which identifies, trains and nurtures students capable of performing the Wagnerian repertory. With a Voice and a Spirit, Triumphing Over Racism 2011-02-07T23:23:33Z

The real Cosima Liszt left her husband for Wagner, though it didn't happen like this and nobody was a vampire. Lisztomania: the most embarrassing historical film ever made? 2013-02-06T10:22:00Z

Yet through the hazy textures themes from the Wagner emerge in veiled guises. Music Review: Leif Ove Andsnes’s Ojai Festival Riffs on ‘Tristan’ 2012-06-10T21:47:09Z

"Tom and Gary are extraordinarily talented producers who have changed the television landscape with extremely unique, award-winning programing," Paula Wagner, chair of the 2011 Producers Guild Awards, said. Producers Guild to honor Tom Hanks 2010-10-11T21:38:00Z

A painter, photographer, filmmaker and translator, Wagner sat on the board of trustees of the Richard Wagner Foundation, which was formed in 1973 to oversee the estate of the composer. Composer Wagner's great granddaughter Iris dies at 71 2014-01-10T15:27:46Z

“I don’t have the time to submerge myself in the world of Wagner,” he said. From Street Theater to Wagner on the Opera Stage 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z

“It’s the combination of things: the music, text, and cultural specificity of what he is using that makes Wagner’s work, to me, so deeply problematic and fascinating,” Kosky said. Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Its vocal demands are extraordinary: Renata’s part has been likened to that of Wagner’s Isolde in difficulty. Review: ‘The Fiery Angel,’ Devilishly Tough Prokofiev 2015-12-01T05:00:00Z

His origins notwithstanding, Mendelssohn was a better Christian than Wagner. Wagner and Mendelssohn make interesting bedfellows at Seattle Symphony 2010-06-18T18:33:00Z

Whenever Wagner’s “Ring” cycle comes to town, music critics start hearing about how impossibly long it is. Looking for your next binge-watching marathon? Try 17 hours of opera. 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z

Singing with confidence, power and purpose, with both freshness and maturity, Ms. Davidsen, just 32, staked a precocious claim to the great Wagner and Strauss roles that require equal parts youthful flexibility and sheer strength. Review: A Young Soprano Meets the Hype at the Met Opera 2019-12-01T05:00:00Z

Many of us know about the influence of Wagner's anti-Semitic screeds. Classical music's soothing powers in troubled times can help open minds and inspire dialogue 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z

“Here, time becomes space” is the key line of Wagner’s “Parsifal.” A Pulse-Slowing Playlist for an Unmoored Time 2020-05-26T04:00:00Z

The murky, brooding music later in that movement, a nod to Wagner’s depiction of the magical, shapeshifting Tarnhelm in his “Ring,” passed without phosphorescent eeriness. Review: Gustavo Dudamel Leads His New York Philharmonic 2023-05-20T04:00:00Z

This is strange, since “Lohengrin” is probably the most performed Wagner work worldwide; it’s done all the time. 10 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2023 2023-01-01T05:00:00Z

Her body was found floating off Catalina Island in California near a boat on which she, Mr. Wagner and Christopher Walken had spent the evening. Lana Wood, Natalie’s Little Sister, Has Plenty to Say 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

The last of President Obama’s four Pentagon chiefs, Carter has written a book that, reminiscent of Wagner’s music, is better than it reads. Battlefields: Recent Books in Military History 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

And Wagner is someone they intend to use or get rid of. Michael Koryta's 'The Cypress House': a whiff of doom in a whisp of smoke 2011-02-03T00:02:06Z

In the show, a dying Wagner reflects on his own unfinished Buddhist opera. Opera to revive dead Asian language 2013-05-10T11:56:53Z

"I don't want Wagner just to be for people who have a lot of money," says Katharina. The battle for?Bayreuth 2010-08-23T20:46:00Z

Police and autopsy reports can be read online, and there have been numerous books, including last year’s “More Than Love” by Wood’s daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner, which accompanied a splashy HBO documentary. Review | How did Natalie Wood die? Forty years later, her sister offers theories in a new book. 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

Wagner’s operas call for a massive number of brass instruments, with extra horns, trombones and the Wagner tubas he had built specially for his “Ring” cycle. Loud, Louder, Loudest: How Classical Music Started to Roar 2020-04-17T04:00:00Z

While we may reject a mechanistic link between Wagner and Hitlerism, there is no denying the composer was a virulent anti-semite. A to Z of Wagner: J is for Jews 2013-06-13T15:31:05Z

Mark Elder may one of the few great Wagner conductors of our time still to conduct a Ring cycle, but he is gradually working his way through the tetralogy in concerts with the Hallé. The best classical music for 2011 2011-01-03T08:00:12Z

James R. Oestreich Here are some favorite Wagner CDs and DVDs selected by four of the classical music critics of The Times. Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z

The festival also created a minitempest over worries that too much attention was being given to Wagner, a noted anti-Semite: a debate that perhaps reflects Los Angeles’s newcomer status as a “Ring” town. Los Angeles Opera Company?s ?Ring? Festival 2010-06-20T23:29:00Z

The original article in the Day asked teenagers to consider whether it is possible still to enjoy great works of art by “deeply unpleasant people” such as Pablo Picasso and Richard Wagner. Children's news website apologises to JK Rowling over trans tweet row 2020-07-23T04:00:00Z

For five hours we sat there in the front row as Wagner's hymn to love, death, and almost endlessly deferred musical resolution played out in front of us. Tristan und Isolde – Wagner's love supreme 2012-12-20T18:00:01Z

Mr. Nelsons was in Bayreuth to conduct at the Wagner festival. ArtsBeat: Andris Nelsons Withdraws From Tanglewood Performance After Concussion 2013-07-22T20:16:28Z

The only thing wrong with this week is that Jack Wagner isn’t here to shake what his mother gave him, since the former soap star was sent home last week. Dancing with the Stars Watch: KISS and Tell 2012-04-10T12:30:12Z

They all have something of interest, from Richard Wagner memorials, old castles and medieval fortifications, to caves, grottos and even health spas. Lockdown escapes: where I’ll visit when this is over 2020-03-28T04:00:00Z

Let us not forget, once more, Hitler’s love of Wagner or Wagner’s own racial intolerance. Classical music can unite and console in troubling, angry times 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

English National Opera’s first installment of Wagner’s four-part epic of gods and humans, lust and power, was judged a bit too scrappy and bare to transfer to the grand Met. Review: This London ‘Ring’ Is on the Met Opera’s Radar 2023-09-12T04:00:00Z

At various points, the music is lush, ironic and quotation-heavy; there’s quite a bit of Wagner, Mahler and even Bernstein in the score. Hannah Arendt and Walter Benjamin Don’t Talk. They Sing. 2018-06-24T04:00:00Z

As it turned out, Wagner remained ignored, but as the hugely successful “Tristan” demonstrated, the delights of experiencing his works in a 1,200-seat theater are considerable. Opera Review: On Opposite Shores: 'Meistersinger' and 'Rosenkavalier' 2011-05-24T18:30:06Z

The Met players, long buffed in Wagner by James Levine, will be led by the more febrile Simon Rattle, in just his second Met outing. Classical Music to Come: A Finnish Star, Minimalism and Wagner 2016-09-16T04:00:00Z

Wagner, Roy Orbison, circus skills and bird-spotting hardly seem to belong within the same cultural hemisphere, let alone on the same stage. Tristan and Yseult – review 2013-06-24T17:06:35Z

If you booked early, you'd have been able to go see the second opera in Wagner's Ring Cycle in Covent Garden tonight for less than the cost of a cinema ticket. It's not elitist to dress up for the opera 2012-10-04T09:48:12Z

The only child of a Burmese mother and a white American father, Wagner grew up hearing stories of “escapes, settlement, assimilation.” New in Paperback: ‘King Zeno,’ ‘The Monk of Mokha’ 2019-01-11T05:00:00Z

In that respect he constitutes a refreshing contrast to the “evil genius” of Romanticism, Richard Wagner, with whose aesthetic standpoint he otherwise had much in common. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z

War-battered Leipzig, nicknamed the "city of heroes" for its peaceful resistance as the GDR collapsed, famed as a musical crucible for Wagner, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Liszt and others, was at last regaining its dignity. Berlin on song 2010-04-03T23:06:00Z

Yet cut through the aesthetic verbiage, and Wagner pulls it off. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Hailing Opera's Shakespeare, and Its Proust 2011-01-17T12:00:40Z

It’s why I was happy to snack on chocolate Mozart treats while in Austria, but found the Wagner sweets for sale here less enticing. Watching Neo-Nazis in Virginia From a German Opera House 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

Wagner was never satisfied with the score of Tannhäuser, which has the most complex editorial history of all his operas. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z

Since it was created at the Coliseum in 1999, Nikolaus Lehnhoff's staging of Wagner's final has been seen across Europe and the US, but it has not been revived by until now. Parsifal ? review 2011-02-17T17:07:26Z

Whoever had control, the result was, by a long way, the most vivid and human staging of a Wagner opera that I have heard or seen. Wagner: beauty in the eye of the beholder 2011-07-14T15:01:01Z

Under his leadership, the orchestra became known for more ambitious programming — including works by Wagner, Bartok and Berlioz — and assumed a higher public profile, including regular appearances in New York at Carnegie Hall. Arthur Winograd, Hartford Symphony Music Director, Dies at 90 2010-04-28T02:53:00Z

The bass-baritone has had his biggest successes in , most notably as Alberich in the Metropolitan Opera’s current staging of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle. Music Review: Eric Owens Uses Wagner as a Grace Note at Zankel Hall 2012-02-22T22:39:09Z

There are splendid Wagner singers and conductors today, and many invaluable recordings have been made in the last 20 years or so. Critics Name Their Favorite Wagner Recordings 2013-08-22T20:50:13Z

Yes: it's almost Wagner Time at the Proms. Too much Wagner? Try these instead 2013-07-21T16:47:24Z

Bruce Wagner writes really wonderfully about that whole milieu and its gothic vanity. Emma Cline on the Movie Business 2019-06-24T04:00:00Z

The conductor Marc Piollet drew a warm, glowing and surging account of Wagner’s great score from the inspired players. Operas Filled With Forbidden Love in Madrid 2014-01-28T13:02:07Z

That Ms. Abramovic will be collaborating with Mr. Wilson, a once-radical creator of epic experimental works and now best known for his ritualistic productions of Puccini and Wagner, is also perfect. Art: Marina Abramovic?s Silent Sitting at MoMA Reaches Finale 2010-05-30T22:22:00Z

Still, the more I immerse myself in the Wagner operas, the more staggering they seem. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Hailing Opera's Shakespeare, and Its Proust 2011-01-17T12:00:40Z

That was my conclusion after spending the last two weeks of July taking in the offerings of both theaters: nine evenings of Wagner in 12 days, by turns exhilarating and enervating. In a Wagnerian Whirlwind, One Conductor Breaks Through 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

‘SIEGFRIED’ What can Robert Lepage possibly add to the technological wonders of the first two installments of his unfolding Wagner “Ring” cycle at the Met? The New Season: Tchaikovsky, Dress Codes, And 3-D Opera 2011-09-16T19:50:18Z

But whereas no one really doubts the greatness of Wagner or Verdi, and Chopin seems universally beloved, things are not so straightforward with Liszt. Looking at Franz Liszt on His Bicentenary 2011-10-22T04:00:08Z

But in this group, Captain Wagner said, she has found her “people.” The New ‘Monuments Officers’ Prepare to Protect Art Amid War 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

"It was liberating because you think okay, that's right, Mozart already did that, Wagner already did that, so what new can be done?" Police drummer, Monty Python comic turn to opera 2011-04-05T15:44:40Z

Yet while his conducting manner is overt, his interpretations, especially of the Wagner and Beethoven, were quite restrained. Review: A shimmering night of German romantic classics at the symphony 2010-05-14T16:54:00Z

One thing about those high-concept, updated “Ring” productions is that a director can put Wagner’s characters in a setting that makes you see them afresh. Music Review: At Met, the New ?Ring? Is Mostly a Success 2010-09-28T06:30:00Z

This means the augmented reality has little profound substance to support, just a jittery desire to stimulate — to ornament and impress — which is just what Wagner didn’t want from stage technology. Review: Wagner Would Have Liked AR, but Not This ‘Parsifal’ 2023-07-26T04:00:00Z

Production’s Wagnerian Difficulties Much as I detest that overused adjective “awesome,” it seems an appropriate word to describe the Canadian director Robert Lepage’s recent staging of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle at the Metropolitan Opera. | ‘Wagner’s Dream’: ‘Wagner’s Dream,’ Documentary About Met’s ‘Ring’ Cycle 2012-07-18T23:04:08Z

That didn't stop the General Assembly in 2003 from approving the action, Wagner said. Tollway watchdog: $32.6 million went to state improperly in 2003-06 2012-03-23T02:49:00Z

But there's a long way to go from an empty theatre to the opening night of a Wagner opera. Bringing Wagner to Gloucestershire 2010-07-22T22:06:00Z

“Likewise, Brett Kavanaugh has spent his life putting together a career that would land him on the Supreme Court and all of a sudden, his moral fiber is up for debate,” Wagner continues. “The Circus” goes to Kavanaugh: Women’s pain collides with the sport of politics 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z

BAYREUTH, Germany — Wagner fans take note: if you like your opera pure, two productions at this year's Bayreuth festival are not for you. Rats and recycling: Wacky Wagner at Bayreuth 2011-08-03T22:16:04Z

Tristan is the gateway to the rest of Wagner's music – the drama of Götterdämmerung, the spiritual progress of Parsifal – but it's also the solar plexus of the whole of 19th-century musical history. Tristan und Isolde – Wagner's love supreme 2012-12-20T18:00:01Z

Originally a mezzo soprano, she drew acclaim for her roles in the works of such opera giants as Verdi and Wagner. Opera star Connell dies aged 65 2012-02-21T08:47:13Z

Many of the novel’s other characters are little more than hastily drawn cartoons, lacking the heart and soul of earlier Wagner creations. Book Of The Times: Book Review: ‘Dead Stars,’ by Bruce Wagner 2012-08-10T06:30:09Z

For the recital’s second half, Liszt looked at Wagner and Busoni at Liszt. For pianist Igor Levit, first the Gilmore award, then a stupendous, cyclonic recital 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z

But fluids were also an obsession for Wagner, whose fascination with wounds is remarkably close to some of the darker passages of Bjork. Why is MoMA featuring an exhibit showcasing Bjork’s pretentiousness? 2015-03-04T05:00:00Z

And Mr. Lepage is sometimes surprisingly faithful to Wagner’s stage directions. Critic?s Notebook: To Seal a Director?s Reputation, Put a ?Ring? on It 2011-07-04T21:00:06Z

Here, Wagner’s target is chastity-obsessed conservatism and the bad behavior it breeds. Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

In his own memoir, Mr. Wagner called it “ridiculous.” Lana Wood, Natalie’s Little Sister, Has Plenty to Say 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

Ms. Zambello and the production team were also heartily cheered, something that does not often happen when Wagner lovers see boldly contemporary productions of the “Ring.” Music Review: A Pair of Siegfrieds Complete the ?Ring? 2011-06-20T21:38:53Z

Lindsay Peoples Wagner, the 29-year-old editor in chief of Teen Vogue, wants to open it up. Teen Vogue’s editor is a rarity in the fashion world. She keeps it real on Instagram. 2020-02-02T05:00:00Z

“We all, Jewish and Israeli musicians, perform Wagner everywhere in the world,” she said. Israeli Group Set to Play In Bayreuth 2010-10-06T21:52:00Z

As has Wagner, in a show that he had hoped to transfer from the Royal Opera House to this year's Edinburgh Festival. Simon Callow's critical re-appraisal 2014-08-14T04:00:00Z

A stone in the mosaic of the big picture of the history of Wagner. ‘A Stone in the Mosaic’: A Director Enters the House of Wagner 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Babies have an advantage, said Mr. Wagner, who works as a mover. There’s a New Gerber Baby and Some Parents Are Mad 2022-06-05T04:00:00Z

She’d admitted to having a teenage crush on Mr. Wagner, who was eight years older, and in her Times interview in 1969, she reflected on their relationship. New Doubts in Natalie Wood’s Death: ‘I Don’t Think She Got in the Water by Herself’ 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

I lean toward the latter: Ms. Mazzoli’s morosely pulsating expanses have, to paraphrase Rossini’s apocryphal quip about Wagner, pretty moments and bland quarters of an hour. Music Review: Gotham Chamber Opera at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-05-23T21:54:56Z

Wagner knew nothing of the search for dark matter and eerie bosons when he wrote Der Ring des Nibelungen. Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2012-09-29T23:07:03Z

What begins as a reflective memoir of loneliness and longing turns into a methodical investigation, as Wagner digs into the archives, calls up experts and tests her DNA. Alex Wagner Digs Into Her Family’s Past in ‘Futureface’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

LENOX, Mass. — Richard Wagner put an obsessive amount of effort into portraying the natural world in the “Ring,” both in his music and how he wanted it staged. Review: ‘Die Walküre’ Brings the Thunder to Tanglewood 2019-07-30T04:00:00Z

Once, at a private recital, Pauline and Richard Wagner himself took the two vocal parts in his intensely erotic Act II duet from “Tristan und Isolde.” Review | A welcome reminder that there’s value to being a citizen of the world 2019-12-10T05:00:00Z

Mr. Gilbert filled out the program with smart choices: an early Barber work, Wagner’s Overture to “Tannhäuser” and orchestral music from “Salome.” Music Review: A Third Season Begins After a Busy Preseason 2011-09-22T13:22:45Z

Our first trip abroad was to Bayreuth to see ‘Wagner’s Ring.'” What Warren Buffett, Richard Branson and Other Successful People Were Doing at Age 25 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z

“At the end of the day,” he tells Wagner later, “this race is about the fact that Senator McCaskill is totally out of step with this state.” “The Circus” delivers “The Verdict” on how Kavanaugh fall-out could affect midterms 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

The story hinges on a sound pun: Bayreuth, the town in Bavaria, where an annual Wagner opera festival is held, and Buy-Rite, a very American establishment. This Week in Fiction: Thomas McGuane 2015-09-21T04:00:00Z

Along with his music dramas, Wagner’s legacy includes his antisemitic and nationalist political writings, and the Nazi dictatorship celebrated his musical works as a symbol of the pure German culture they hoped to promote. Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

This month, instead of boarding a flight to Paris for the haute couture shows, Ms. Peoples Wagner is heading to the Midwest. The Imperial Editor Goes the Way of the Dodo 2021-07-01T04:00:00Z

“It’s impossible to imagine that both sides of this fight are going to be satisfied at the end of this,” Wagner says. “The Circus” delivers “The Verdict” on how Kavanaugh fall-out could affect midterms 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z

Redemption of a suffering male through the love of a virtuous woman is a motif in many Wagner’s operas. Review: A New ‘Flying Dutchman’ Makes Landfall at the Met Opera 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z

The decision means the Met will likely end its collaboration with the Bolshoi Theater in Moscow, including on a new production of Wagner’s “Lohengrin” scheduled for next season. Anna Netrebko, Russian Diva, Is Out at the Metropolitan Opera 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

There is lots of attention to dark orchestral detail, and Gatti seemed keen to underline that Falstaff is the work of a composer who knew his Wagner. Falstaff 2012-05-16T11:31:00Z

But when he formed Cruise/Wagner Productions in the 90s and decided to produce his own movies, he needed a hit. How did Mission: Impossible become Hollywood's most reliable franchise? 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z

Forty-one years after the event occurred her husband at that time, actor Robert Wagner, has been officially cleared as a person of interest in Wood's death. Will we ever know what really happened to Natalie Wood? 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z

For Stravinsky, there was just too much bombast in Wagner. ArtsBeat: Top 10 Composers: Hailing Opera's Shakespeare, and Its Proust 2011-01-17T12:00:40Z

“This may sound sort of esoteric, but I think of the way Wagner used his leitmotifs in the ‘Ring.’ Dvorak, Honegger and Joan of Arc in Philharmonic’s 2014-15 Season 2014-01-22T17:00:00Z

The players savored the chromatic lushness of the Wagner before making a brash and brassy romp of the Daugherty. Civic Orchestra, Chicago Youth Symphony have the 'Rite' stuff 2011-06-01T14:55:54Z

Their father, Wolfgang Wagner, died at 90 this March after running the festival for more than 40 years. Music Review: Hans Neuenfels Gathers Rats in ?Lohengrin? 2010-08-04T22:14:00Z

As Wagner wrote it, Lohengrin is a knight of the Holy Grail who arrives to fight for Elsa when she is falsely accused of killing her brother. Review: Kaufmann triumphs as La Scala's Lohengrin 2012-12-12T13:42:19Z

Wagner's ideology and antisemitism were terrible," he declared, "but he was a great composer. Dance with the devil 2011-07-26T08:01:01Z

He also had a gift for illustrating the representative moments in Wagner’s score: sheets of rain in the opening of “Die Walküre,” or the idyllic forest murmurs at the heart of “Siegfried.” Review: Berlin Takes Wagner’s Approach to Staging the ‘Ring’ 2022-10-10T04:00:00Z

The festival has been likened to a "mini-Bayreuth", a flattering reference to the purpose-built opera house Wagner had constructed in Bavaria in the 1870s. Conductor Adam Fischer: Wagner's music like "opium" 2012-06-21T15:12:29Z

“If it’s too scary and turbulent, they may decide to stay in the reservoir and we lose the benefit of the structure,” Wagner said. Spiral fish slide planned at Cle Elum Dam 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

I spent five years at English National Opera with Puccini, Wagner and contemporary repertoire. Harry Bicket, Conducting Mozart’s ‘Clemenza di Tito’ at Met 2012-11-09T23:06:30Z

"The problem with Wagner is that Bayreuth is a hereditary monarchy; it continues to hold on to his legacy," he said. 'Autobahn to Bayreuth' - English soprano sings for Wagner's 200th 2013-07-21T15:31:14Z

Its crazy excessiveness wasn’t a 1970s-era lapse in taste; like the horned headdress of Wagner’s Brünnhilde, it was the whole point. Carrie Fisher Made Grand Virtues of Being Fearless and Funny 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z

The 100-plus ensemble made a mammoth sound, fulfilling Fischer's goal of getting the choir more involved in the action than is traditional in Wagner stagings. A new temple to Wagner on the Danube, not Rhine 2011-06-23T13:58:45Z

The only opera on tap is Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman,” on Aug. 15, 2015, which will be Conlon’s final bow as music director. James Conlon to quit post with Chicago Symphony's Ravinia Festival 2014-08-26T04:00:00Z

Later in the day some of his works will be performed in Bayreuth, where the composer's descendants preside over a Wagner festival every year. Germany celebrates composer Wagner's 200th 2013-05-22T10:41:08Z

As Schulz said, “He finds the Mendelssohn moments in Wagner.” One of the World’s Great Maestros Is Suddenly a Free Agent 2022-10-04T04:00:00Z

Ms. Wagner’s avant-garde production was introduced in 2007, and this was already its second performance at the festival this summer. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

An education on Richard Wagner, Germany's most famous opera composer who based himself in Bayreuth, would also be helpful. Oktoberfest means wine in Franconia, the enchanting German region you don’t know yet 2018-09-22T04:00:00Z

In 1844, at 70, he traveled to Dresden, Germany, to conduct his opera “La Vestale” at the invitation of the young Richard Wagner. Two Centuries Later, a Composer Gets a Second Look 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z

When I consider classical music in film, though, I’m thinking of actual concert works from the classical canon: Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” in “Apocalypse Now,” Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” in Woody Allen’s “Manhattan.” Perspective | When classical music becomes another character in a movie 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z

Reborn as the American Wagner Project and funded by the Wagner Society, it now represents one of six distinct training arms of the institute. Mezzo Dolora Zajick possesses enthusiasm as big as her voice 2015-02-12T05:00:00Z

In a way, the tracks merge the glacial symphonic raptures of Bruckner and Wagner with the loops and pulsations of dance music; they can be simultaneously serene and ominous. Pop Music Gifts, All Bundled Up 2016-11-24T05:00:00Z

His debut opera Holy Blood and Crescent Moon – which, he claimed, tried to recreate the scale and power of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde – was first performed 22 years ago. Monty Python's Terry Jones sinks his teeth into canine opera 2011-04-08T21:00:01Z

Also because I was influenced by a late-blooming acquaintance with Wagner operas, discovering that their aesthetic, which I had assumed to be bombastic, really relies on sibylline continuities. The Pyro-American in Me 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z

Wagner withdrew the score, and wanted nothing to do with Paris again. Wagner's Tannh?user 2010-12-11T00:06:00Z

Six of the 21 people in the current class of Army Monuments Officers, including Captain Ruehrwein and Captain Wagner, are new directly appointed officers. The New ‘Monuments Officers’ Prepare to Protect Art Amid War 2022-08-11T04:00:00Z

That is because Heinrich’s story was taken up — by Wagner and, later, by the Nazis — as a symbol of pan-Germanic nationalism, with all its darkness and xenophobia. Review: A Blunt New ‘Lohengrin’ at the Met Stars a Shining Knight 2023-02-27T05:00:00Z

“She added his name without talking about it to my real dad, which she shouldn’t have done; but that was my mom’s style,” Ms. Gregson Wagner said. A Mother’s Death, a Daughter’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

A group of psychologists, rather late in the day, concluded that Wagner's music causes degeneration, perversion and fatigue. Lohengrin; Ariadne auf Naxos; La Donna del Lago – review 2013-05-25T23:05:56Z

The Seattle Opera — which, reflecting Mr. Jenkins’s interests, has made a specialty of Wagner — has worked hard to ensure that next summer’s “Ring” cycles will go on as scheduled. Critic’s Notebook: U.S. Opera Companies, Notably in Seattle, Face Money Trouble 2012-08-08T22:30:39Z

I’m working on the sets for an opera, Michael Tilson Thomas’s production of Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman,” which is probably going to be delayed, in San Francisco. Artists Are Hunkered Down, but Still Nurturing Their Inner Visions 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z

Grapefruit and apple juices treat poor digestion and rebalance intestinal flora, say De Sousa and Wagner. | Post-Fashion-Month Detox Recipes from Downtown’s Hippest, Healthiest Chefs 2014-03-11T17:50:50Z

Wagner overlays the basic comic structure of Die Meistersinger with a Song Contest. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z

After seven hours on the phone making calls to different companies and local government agencies, retired nurse midwife and Spokane resident Katie Wagner finally called it quits. Delayed Seattle Van Gogh exhibit’s unclear opening date, location frustrate ticket holders 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Unlike recent European “Meistersingers” — which have celebrated Wagner’s idea of Teutonic culture by immersing everything in swastikas — it had a light touch. Review: ‘Meistersinger,’ Wagner’s Playful Paean to Culture, in London 2015-02-10T05:00:00Z

The performances are, of course, the raison d’être for Wagner fans, but Seattle Opera also offers many enhancements for those who want to experience more. How to get even more out of Seattle Opera’s ‘Ring’ cycle 2013-07-25T22:42:24Z

There was Proust and Wagner and minimalism and raves and the Sanskrit epics. Musicians Redefine Long Play in 2015 2015-12-16T05:00:00Z

I wanted it to struggle and fight with the Wagner piece, so it tries to drown the Wagner piece. The Carpetbagger: Below the Line: The World-Ending Sounds of 'Melancholia' 2011-12-07T17:00:13Z

That was never the problem with Jane Wagner’s play; it bristles with barbed insights that have kept me nursing the beautiful bruises for 35 years. ‘Intelligent Life’ Review: Cecily Strong’s ‘Awerobics’ Workout 2022-01-11T05:00:00Z

The first was for opera, after seeing Wagner’s “Walkuere” at age 8 or 9 in Florence. “Romeo and Juliet” director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96 2019-06-15T04:00:00Z

On Dec. 31, 2013, she married her romantic and writing partner of more than 40 years, Jane Wagner, in a friend's backyard with wedding rings made of denim and beads. Lily Tomlin finds renewed life in showbiz universe 2015-06-05T04:00:00Z

Liszt – who is also now dead – climbs into a heavenly spaceship, flies back to earth and laser-explodes Zombie Vampire Hitler Wagner. Lisztomania: the most embarrassing historical film ever made? 2013-02-06T10:22:00Z

The movie, starring Kirsten Dunst and Charlotte Gainsbourg as troubled sisters facing imminent death, brings stunning images on Earth and beyond and sets the tragedy to the swirling music of Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde." Film of cosmic chaos, end of Earth wows Cannes 2011-05-18T10:55:55Z

Even their taste in opera ran toward the controversial – what was up with all the Wagner? It's time to release Looney Tunes' racist cartoons 2010-10-15T20:01:00Z

In the new film "Maps to the Stars," director David Cronenberg and screenwriter Bruce Wagner chart a course through a Hollywood hellscape populated by damaged and dysfunctional people. 'Maps to the Stars' an incendiary tour of Hollywood hell, reviews say 2015-02-28T05:00:00Z

His use of thick chromatic harmonies is less dark and elusive, more ludic and radiant, than Wagner’s writing. Review: To a Rare King Arthur Opera, Bard Says ‘Welcome Back’ 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

“It was like, ‘Choose your favorite child,’ ” Mr. Wagner said. Fung Tu Keeps Cooking, Even With Gas Shut Off 2015-09-01T04:00:00Z

Its director, Sven Friedrich, will discuss the museum’s history and collection, with a focus on the period of Wagner’s life in which he wrote the sprawling, extraordinary “Ring” cycle. Spare Times for Jan. 22-28 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z

A letter from Frederick Douglass’s son Lewis, who was a member of the all-black 54th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, was written after fighting a “terrible” and “desperate” battle over Fort Wagner in Charleston Harbor. Exhibition Review: ‘The Civil War in America’ at Library of Congress 2013-01-10T20:02:01Z

The detective, Wagner and Walken and coroner's officials all have maintained that Wood's death was an accident, possibly caused by her trying to secure the dinghy to the side of the yacht. Natalie Wood detectives face conflicting accounts 2011-11-19T12:47:11Z

The Gods Are Stranded as Set Misfires It is a moment of glorious climax, and one of the most memorable in Wagner’s “Ring” cycle. The Gods Are Stranded as Set Misfires 2010-09-28T22:00:00Z

Walking into “Meistersinger,” I was as skeptical of Wagner für Kinder as the parents were of me. Wagner’s Sprawling Operas, Shrunk to Child Size 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z

"In history class I hear of Wagner's anti-Semitism and I'm not cool with that," said Hannes, 24, a university student walking home from a session of frisbee playing with friends. Wagner birthday "Ring" booed: will clan go up in smoke? 2013-08-01T10:20:01Z

Furthermore, because of associations between Wagner and the Nazi regime, the very vocabulary of post-Wagnerian opera may appear to be implicated in the genocide. Alex Ross: Mieczysław Weinberg’s “The Passenger,” at the Park Avenue Armory 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z

The orchestra, as in the Wagner, produced a solid, thoroughly unified sound, qualities it retained — with a measure of suppleness and mystery added — in the Debussy. Music Review: Knights in Naumburg Orchestral Concert at Central Park 2012-07-11T22:01:58Z

Wagner, 200 years old this year, is served up sumptuously. First night of the Proms 2013-07-13T00:25:10Z

Wood’s daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner weighs in heavily here — interviewing friends and family, including her father and Wood’s husband, the actor Robert Wagner, and stars like Robert Redford and Mia Farrow. What’s on TV Tuesday: Jerry Seinfeld and ‘Arde Madrid’ 2020-05-05T04:00:00Z

In a pair of semi-staged performances earlier this month at the Bridgewater Hall here, the Hallé, in radiant, commanding form, completed Wagner’s “Ring,” nine years after it began. A Critic’s First Orchestra Defines Britain’s Musical Soul 2018-06-15T04:00:00Z

This irritates Ms. Gregson Wagner, who is very close to and fiercely protective of Mr. Wagner. A Mother’s Death, a Daughter’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

We've put on very fine performances of Rhapsody in Blue and Grieg's Piano Concerto, Wagner, Brahms, and specially commissioned works by Iraqi composers. Let's hear it for the Iraqi National Symphony Orchestra 2011-01-18T13:49:42Z

Longtime Book World critic Michael Dirda has written a fresh introduction that lays out the unlikely history of “Dune,” a novel he describes as “half Wagner, half spaghetti western.” ‘Dune’ receives the royal treatment on its 50th anniversary 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z

A production of Wagner's life-enhancing work is always a monumental undertaking because of the sheer scale of the work and the forces it requires, a large chorus as well as a considerable roster of soloists. This week's new live music 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z

When Mr. Wagner made a case for his processing facility at a county commission meeting in April, he was outnumbered by critics: 14 to one. Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Wagner is sawing ash trees at its mills at about double the rate it used to. Loggers cut down ash trees in a race with a killer beetle 2019-02-27T05:00:00Z

Mr. Thomas led a crackling account of the stormy Wagner overture. Music Review: A Voyage of Discovery As a New Hall Sets Sail 2011-01-27T20:55:02Z

Wagner was one of the most free-ranging artistic geniuses in European history. Richard Wagner was no ranter 2011-07-25T21:00:01Z

Whereas Wagner’s timing of highlights and “zones of calmness” is completely different, of course. Tenor Jonas Kaufmann takes on Tristan, opera’s voice killer 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z

Michael Stern brings the festival to a close with Anna Clyne’s “This Midnight Hour,” Wagner’s Prelude to Act I from “Lohengrin” and Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. The best classical concerts of summer 2019 2019-05-31T04:00:00Z

Mr. Nelsons devoted the first half of this program to Wagner, starting with a staple: the Overture to “Tannhäuser.” Andris Nelsons Begins Tenure Leading Boston Symphony 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z

For the casting, I was of course very involved with Katharina Wagner. ‘A Stone in the Mosaic’: A Director Enters the House of Wagner 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

Along the way, there are insights into the music he loves and loathes, especially the operas of Janacek and Wagner, aspects of Mahler's symphonies, and Brahms's and Britten's music. Composer Thomas Adès: 'Wagner is a fungus' 2012-09-28T21:48:01Z

That said, Wagner's success depends entirely on whether or not he can maintain his terrific hit rate. The wonder of Wagner 2010-10-18T12:58:00Z

When she was 24, Ms. Melton said from the stage, Mr. Parr asked her if she had considered singing Wagner. Review: Heidi Melton Debuts With a Daunting Recital Program 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z

The context for Tuesday’s statements would be Mr. Nikitin’s appearance in seven performances of Wagner’s “Parsifal,” starting on Feb. 15 at the Metropolitan Opera, where he has appeared often since 2002. Opera Singer Explains Tattoo Thought to Be Swastika 2012-08-01T22:08:24Z

In July 2019, he proposed in Wagner Park on a rainy morning by their apartment, and they soon drew up a list of 120 guests for a destination wedding in Cartagena. In Translation: A Friendship Redefined 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z

But the sly wit in Strauss’s admiring evocations of Jean-Baptiste Lully, and winking references to Wagner and his own earlier works, was equally telling. Music Review: Pratfalls From Haydn, Swing From Marsalis 2011-02-19T00:51:49Z

What is new, apparently, are the ominous yet ambiguous pronouncements of Dennis Davern, captain of the yacht on which Wood was last seen alive with husband Robert Wagner and her "Brainstorm" co-star Christopher Walken. Review of Natalie Wood's death ignites curiosity 2011-11-19T05:26:17Z

Wagner released a statement last week saying he welcomed the new investigation into the case. Lifeguard believes Wood could have been saved 2011-11-23T09:16:05Z

There is also a kinder opera, now in its second year, in which a Wagner work – this year it was Tannhäuser – is condensed to a more digestible and child-friendly format. The battle for?Bayreuth 2010-08-23T20:46:00Z

Wagner said she thought “I Am Jane Doe” would be instrumental in “helping drive this bill across the finish line.” A movie about online sex-trafficking might actually get laws changed 2017-05-18T04:00:00Z

If Giacomo Meyerbeer is remembered at all these days, it is for his grand operas, larger-than-life tragic works that profoundly influenced Richard Wagner. CD reviews: Eschenbach and Goerne take on somber Brahms 2016-08-03T04:00:00Z

Predictions It's already common knowledge that Wagner will perform Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood tomorrow, but that's by the by. The X Factor Files: Stuart Heritage's X Factor briefing 2010-10-22T11:27:00Z

You heard traces of Debussy, Wagner and Hollywood in the orchestra, with moody -style stasis in transitions. Music Review: In ?Moby-Dick? in Dallas, Big Role for the Roiling Sea 2010-05-02T22:07:00Z

Mr. Heppner, a Canadian, rose to fame singing some of the most difficult roles in the repertory, and was especially prized for his Wagner. ArtsBeat: Ben Heppner to Retire From Singing 2014-04-24T16:59:41Z

Perhaps it was a nod to Wagner the young revolutionary, and not the moralizing elder, that Swiss director Roland Aeschlimann chose to finish the German composer's final opera with spiritual and earthly redemption. Geneva's 'Parsifal' ends in embrace 2010-03-19T15:20:00Z

It was acquiring a reputation for grand opera and Wagner, for serious singing and conducting, that had often been snobbishly regarded as the preserve of Covent Garden. The Earl of Harewood 2011-07-11T18:26:50Z

Mr. Tan, who conducted, clearly sees the trilogy as more than a greatest-hits medley; in effusive comments from the stage he termed it a cycle and likened it to Wagner’s “Ring.” Music Review: Evoking Forbidden Love and Flying Ancient Armies 2011-08-14T21:21:17Z

But in Mozart, in Shostakovich, in Wagner, often, you get this feeling that you’re rooted in the rational but you’ve gone to some place that isn’t circumscribed by geometry any more. Don’t Talk Too Much: Tony Kushner on an Operatic ‘Angels in America’ 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z

Wagner’s updating of the set list goes hand in hand with other changes at Canlis. Walt Wagner, longtime Canlis pianist, is retiring ... and Sub Pop will be there to document it 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

There are some 10,000 words in the libretto of Wagner’s “Lohengrin,” which the Metropolitan Opera is presenting in a new production starting on Feb. 26. Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin’ Uses the Word ‘Führer.’ Keep It There. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

Wagner's music is not formally banned in Israel, but since 1938 there has been an informal embargo and the few occasions on which it has been broken have been dramatic ones. Dance with the devil 2011-07-26T08:01:01Z

Yet Wagner’s achievements are now accepted wholesale, so there isn’t a need to categorize any of his operas as successes or failures — except, perhaps, for “Die Feen.” Wagner’s Early Operas Shouldn’t Be Mere Curiosities 2022-06-26T04:00:00Z

A former Seattle Opera Young Artist, Stonikas has developed a voice that can really thrill; she will be one of the contenders in the company’s International Wagner Competition this summer. Seattle Opera revives a gripping, polished ‘Consul’ 2014-02-24T19:05:37Z

Known primarily for Verdi, Wagner, Mozart and Strauss, the Met is presenting three company premieres of 21st century works this season. Aucoin’s ‘Eurydice,’ modern retelling of myth, opens at Met 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z

But you might just as easily have come up with another response: Robert Lepage’s new staging of Wagner’s “Ring” for the Metropolitan Opera, the first two installments of which bookended the just-concluded opera season. Spidey Syndrome Invades the Opera 2011-05-21T23:00:26Z

“For me, he is one of the very few real Wagner tenors today.” How Do You Conquer One of Opera’s Toughest Roles? Start Light 2019-04-26T04:00:00Z

Wagner's Ring hovers in the background, and Wagner is also part of its musical makeup, though a less important part than Dvorˇák, Brahms, Sullivan and even Rimsky-Korsakov. Thelma ? review 2012-02-10T18:15:51Z

Stone and Wagner will executive produce the show. Oliver Stone inks TV deal with Epix 2010-05-03T01:46:00Z

Swedish soprano Nina Stemme, who received raves in Munich, Milan and Paris for her Wagner, beat five others including Joyce DiDonato and Sarah Connolly to be named best female singer. Frankfurt, Kaufmann, Stemme top opera honors 2013-04-22T21:52:58Z

Wagner was impressed by the man but remained unconvinced, mulling afterward what Rossini could have produced had he “felt within himself the religion of his art.” The Puzzle of Rossini?s Brief Career 2011-07-03T02:00:06Z

Yet Elgar scholarship increasingly debates how far he might be tied to broader compositional trends, particularly to the music of late Wagner and early Strauss. Review: Two BBC Proms More Modern than Pastoral 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z

It’s surprising that the Tristan and Isolde story, a medieval Celtic tale that has long figured in literature, film and in Wagner’s opera of the same name, has been so infrequently used by ballet. At Dresden Semperoper, a New Take on ‘Tristan and Isolde’ 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z

When, with Richard Wagner, orchestral and operatic music began to consider itself superior, universal and difficult, Ross explained in a 1996 New Yorker essay, "it stumbled badly in the new democratic marketplace." The war on culture: How conservatives and progressives joined forces to crush art 2021-12-25T05:00:00Z

That context would be the vicious anti-Semitism of its founder, Richard Wagner; the festival’s close connection to the Nazi Party; and its happy hosting of Hitler. Opera Singer Explains Tattoo Thought to Be Swastika 2012-08-01T22:08:24Z

What Wagner is saying is that society, or outward forces, are going to put our traditions — our way of doing things — at risk, and so we have to be strong in defending that. After 24 Years, a Conductor Returns to the Met Opera 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z

Long live the Fraud plum, the Golden Gate strawberry, the Memory grape, the Chinese Shaddock pummelo, the Wagner avocado, the Paradise banana, the Dancy tangerine and the Lisbon lime. Perspective | These U.S. Agriculture Department paintings of fruits and nuts are actually stunning 2021-06-21T04:00:00Z

First, Ms. Wagner dialed into a group video conference that was arranged by Creative Capital, a nonprofit artist-focused group based in New York with significant funding from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. For Artists, the Thrill of Grant Money Arrives With a ‘Now What’? 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z

Next season, Mr. Levine is scheduled for the new productions of Wagner’s “Siegfried” and “Götterdämmerung” and three complete cycles of the “Ring” in April and May. For James Levine, The Twilight Of a Conductor 2011-05-20T20:25:13Z

Two Wagner transcriptions, the “Spinning Song” from “The Flying Dutchman” and “Isolde’s Liebestod,” are given full orchestral dimension, without sacrificing clarity of detail or exceeding the limits of what might be sung. CD reviews: Breathtaking moments in new song cycle ‘let me tell you’ 2016-02-18T05:00:00Z

There was a bonus for the French admirers of the German composer Richard Wagner. Neoimpressionism exhibit makes points about poetry, music's influence 2014-10-04T04:00:00Z

The concerto seems an attempt to balance the advanced chromatic language of Wagner with Brahms’s feeling for classical structure. Review: Max Reger, an Orphan-Composer Adopted for a Night 2016-03-18T04:00:00Z

This week's backstage gossip Even though he's no longer a going concern, Wagner has managed to retain most of the press this week. The X Factor Files: Stuart Heritage's X Factor briefing 2010-12-03T12:53:00Z

There is little of that in “Dead Stars,” and the satire in these pages also lacks the freshness of Mr. Wagner’s vintage work. Book Of The Times: Book Review: ‘Dead Stars,’ by Bruce Wagner 2012-08-10T06:30:09Z

“One danger inherent in the incessant linking of Wagner to Hitler,” Ross says, “is that it hands the Führer a belated cultural victory — exclusive possession of the composer he loved.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

The occasion has led Ms. Gregson Wagner to speak about her mother’s death — and, of greater importance to her daughter — her life. A Mother’s Death, a Daughter’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

What was most striking about his regime was its determined exclusion of any other Wagner from staging opera at Bayreuth. Wolfgang Wagner obituary 2010-03-22T14:24:00Z

Mr. Wagner, meanwhile, said he often resorts to paying for custom-made heels for his larger feet. Some Men Are Dressed to the Nines, the Height of Their Pumps 2011-10-14T23:44:18Z

His recording of Wagner’s “Solemn March to the Holy Grail” from “Parsifal,” as transcribed by Liszt, is one the most hauntingly sublime tracks of the year. The Best Classical Music of 2018 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z

The grail is revealed again, and Parsifal climbs the mantle toward truth's shining light as the music returns to Wagner's hymn of love and praise. Geneva's 'Parsifal' ends in embrace 2010-03-19T15:20:00Z

It was a pioneer, among the first operas to replace spoken dialogue with continuous, through-composed music and a key influence on Wagner, who pushed that through-composed style to new heights of sophistication and emotional complexity. ‘Euryanthe,’ Rarely Heard, Is Mounted at Bard 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z

On Aug. 14, a symposium will convene to discuss “What aspects of Wagner’s alchemy contribute to the Ring’s infinite breadth and depth?” How to get even more out of Seattle Opera’s ‘Ring’ cycle 2013-07-25T22:42:24Z

The fact that Hitler liked Wagner, should we ban all Wagner? The Met, the opera on Leon Klinghoffer’s murder and the politics of protest

His Wagner performances have won accolades, so much so that his calendar is now packed with “Lohengrin” engagements. A Tenor’s Secrets to ‘Lohengrin’: Golf and a Blunt Spouse 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z

Ravel's l'Heure Espagnole - one way to keep Wagner at bay next week. Too much Wagner? Try these instead 2013-07-21T16:47:24Z

He will conduct various performances of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” and Wagner’s “Siegfried” through Nov. 5. Levine?s Injury Causes Headaches Around the Musical World 2011-09-21T12:00:22Z

Mr. Gelb has been a tenacious supporter of Mr. Lepage, whose production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle was hotly debated as it was introduced over the last two seasons. New Operas at the Met Prove to Be Rare Breed 2012-09-09T04:55:01Z

Wagner wrote that the character should convey emotion through a “terrible repose.” Music Review: Deborah Voigt in Met?s ?Der Fliegende Holl?nder? 2010-04-25T22:14:00Z

But a group has no claim to the major leagues unless it can do Wagner, and the challenges are irresistible to ambitious companies. Virginia Opera mounts a high-flying ‘Dutchman’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z

Then, earlier this year, he fractured his ankle and couldn’t appear in another new staging, this time Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer.” Bryn Terfel Returns to the Metropolitan Opera. (Sort Of.) 2020-12-11T05:00:00Z

This year, its stars have scattered around the world in new productions that could keep any Wagner pilgrim satisfied for months. What to See and Experience in New York City This Spring 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z

Those who miss the warmth, richness and steadiness of her Wagner singing from an earlier period might have been disappointed by her performance here. Music Review: A Third Season Begins After a Busy Preseason 2011-09-22T13:22:45Z

For Wagner, her opportunity to see the show has now come and gone. Delayed Seattle Van Gogh exhibit’s unclear opening date, location frustrate ticket holders 2021-09-22T04:00:00Z

Maybe after the ordeal of mounting Wagner’s “Ring” cycle in Robert Lepage’s gargantuan staging, going with a safe choice like “Elisir” for this opening night made sense. Review of Metropolitan Opera’s ‘L’Elisir d’Amore’ 2012-09-25T12:41:03Z

Wagner buffs will finally get that chance this spring when the Metropolitan Opera presents the director Robert Lepage’s new production of the “Ring” in three complete cycles in April and May. | The Year Ahead: Met to Present Wagner?s Entire ?Ring? Cycle 2011-12-29T22:46:22Z

The source music is by Wagner, Tchaikovsky, Haydn, Berlioz, Gounod and, for a football fight song, the Bartlesville High School marching band. Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder: A Gush of Cosmic Rapture 2013-04-11T09:45:05Z

But Wagner has taken the role to a very different place. Walt Wagner, longtime Canlis pianist, is retiring ... and Sub Pop will be there to document it 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

After spending Thanksgiving in Beverly Hills, she went yachting in Catalina Island for the weekend with husband Robert Wagner and Christopher Walken. Natalie Wood in Pictures 2011-11-18T21:53:43Z

At midcentury, he was a founder of, and a music-history instructor at, the Bayreuth Festival Master Classes; the festival, in Bavaria, had been established by Wagner in the late 19th century. Robert W. Gutman, Biographer of Wagner and Mozart, Dies at 90 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

Hence the “special political background” that Katharina Wagner referred to, the source of the sensitivities that she has worked to address. Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin’ Uses the Word ‘Führer.’ Keep It There. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

In this work, originally a group of songs for voice and piano, Wagner set poems by the young Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of one of his wealthy patrons. Music Review: Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, Conducted by Semyon Bychkov 2012-10-15T22:03:59Z

Missing in action is longtime vocalist Eric Wagner, whose range and lyrical perspective built Trouble's foundation as much as its guitarists. Trouble returns to swing metal 2013-08-06T05:00:00Z

In his formative years Wagner spoke constantly of “revolution,” in both its political and its artistic sense. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Wagner's solicitor, Blair Berk, insisted the actor had nothing to hide. Wagner 'silent' over Wood probe 2013-01-18T10:04:33Z

Even President Giorgio Napolitano was drawn into the fray after media speculated that he would miss the opening as a personal protest over the Wagner staging. La Scala inaugurates season with 'Lohengrin' 2012-12-07T11:41:08Z

“He’s the most famous Wagner tenor of our time,” Mr. Guerri said. ArtsBeat: Ben Heppner Drops Out of the Met's 'Ring' 2011-02-09T00:28:53Z

Walter Kerr, writing in The New York Herald Tribune, called it an “infertile cross between Sartre’s ‘No Exit,’ Albee’s ‘Tiny Alice,’ Wagner’s ‘Gotterdammerung’ and the most portentous high school pageant you ever saw.” Terrence McNally, Tony-Winning Playwright of Gay Life, Dies at 81 2020-03-24T04:00:00Z

A spokesman for Wagner has said in a statement that the actor's family had not been contacted by the sheriff's officials but "fully supports" the department's efforts. Wagner not a suspect in Natalie Wood's death: police 2011-11-21T01:08:30Z

BAYREUTH, Germany — This small city is known throughout the world for its summertime Wagner festival, founded in 1876 by Richard Wagner himself. Inch by Inch, an Operatic Jewel Is Polished 2018-04-16T04:00:00Z

The opera was written in the 1850s and inspired by Wagner's infatuation with Mathilde Wesendonck, the wife of one of his patrons – the composer was never shy of pursuing his friends' and colleagues' wives. A to Z of Wagner: I is for Isolde 2013-05-22T15:01:00Z

But by week eight it was all over for both Waissel and Wagner, who both departed in a double elimination. The X Factor: the truth about voting 2010-12-13T17:06:00Z

Ms. Wagner, a retired ski racer and former University of Utah cross-country ski coach, is now an atmospheric scientist serving as director and forecaster at the Chugach National Forest Avalanche Information Center in Alaska. In Colorado, a New Ski Program at a Restored Resort 2015-01-13T05:00:00Z

The Wagners — he is 74, she 73 — wanted to see their collection in important institutions in their lifetimes. At the Whitney, Thea and Ethan Wagner Show the Fruits of Prescient Collecting 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z

Wood drowned after a night of partying with husband Wagner and "Brainstorm" co-star Christopher Walken on the couple's yacht anchored off Santa Catalina Island. LA detectives re-open Natalie Wood death inquiry 2011-11-18T02:56:10Z

The findings will be presented at public panels in 2013, the 200th anniversary of Wagner’s birth. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

What makes the novel so gripping, apart from Koryta's scalpel-sharp prose and eye for detail, is the characterisation of Wagner, a laconic drifter haunted by the past. Eric Brown's science fiction choice ? reviews 2011-03-05T00:07:12Z

This year's Proms have already presented Wagner on period instruments and includes historically informed performances of works by everyone from Monteverdi to Bach. Rodgers and Hammerstein: the Mozarts of the 20th century 2010-08-11T20:45:00Z

He enjoys opera, especially Wagner, and with his wife, Karen Haber, regularly takes long trips, sometimes to science fiction conventions, often to Paris. Robert Silverberg: The Philip Roth of the science fiction world 2016-11-08T05:00:00Z

Mr. Wagner designed sets on Broadway, Off Broadway and for regional theater, for operas and ballets, and, in 1975, for the Rolling Stones’ Tour of the Americas. Robin Wagner, Set Designer Who Won Three Tony Awards, Dies at 89 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

Yes, but your problem with Wagner’s music, I imagine, has to do with his profile as a person, as a human being, which is not the case with Elgar. Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

"There are profound social reasons why people might look at Lowry again," says Wagner. LS Lowry: the people's artist comes in from the cold 2013-06-08T23:05:10Z

For an encore with a gala flourish, Mr. van Zweden led an aggressively feisty account of Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries.” Review: The Jaap van Zweden Era Begins at the Philharmonic 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z

At that point in her life, Ms. Wood was between marriages to Mr. Wagner, the handsome star of television shows like “It Takes a Thief,” “Switch” and “Hart to Hart.” New Doubts in Natalie Wood’s Death: ‘I Don’t Think She Got in the Water by Herself’ 2018-02-03T05:00:00Z

Mr. Bavouzet offered anecdotes and demonstrations, illuminating Debussy’s “gray harmonies” — created when one hand plays black keys, and the other white keys — and discussing the influence of Wagner on Debussy. Music Review: Efflam Bavouzet Performs at Kaplan Penthouse 2013-08-01T22:49:39Z

In "The Bionic Woman," Wagner was a tennis pro whose body was rebuilt after a near-fatal skydiving accident. Richard Anderson, 'Six Million Dollar Man' Star, Dies 2017-09-01T04:00:00Z

“Yes, definitely play over a touching speech about interracial tolerance with Wagner music.” A Closer Look at Wagner and #OscarsSoWhite 2016-03-01T05:00:00Z

A question about flying with candy inspired Josh Wagner to write,“Have a sweet day!” Can I bring a Viking helmet on the plane? AskTSA is here to help. 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

Yet still other opera devotees, aware of Wagner’s anti-Semitism, refuse to listen to his music at all. Review | If ever there was a moment for Richard Wagner, it is 2020 2020-11-03T05:00:00Z

The captain of the yacht she was on before her death now says that he lied to police at the time and holds Wagner responsible for her death. Wagner not a suspect in Natalie Wood's death: police 2011-11-21T01:08:30Z

Ms. Wagner passed the request on to the town, which welcomed the idea, Mr. Richter added. Israeli Group Set to Play In Bayreuth 2010-10-06T21:52:00Z

After the overture — which includes a passage from Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” that repeats throughout — “Melancholia” turns to the sisters. Critic?s Notebook: A Provocateur Steals Cannes Spotlight 2011-05-19T21:38:11Z

Power struggle In addition to increasing the funding and establishing a separate foundation to oversee the composer's library, Wagner also invited directors from abroad to direct individual operas. Bayreuth leader Wagner dies at 90 2010-03-22T12:35:00Z

Humperdinck worked with Richard Wagner, the master of German operatic folklore, and his music, is Wagnerian - rich, lyrical and vaguely reminiscent of some of the German master's early works. Witch burns, audience on fire at Vienna opera show 2012-12-23T23:01:04Z

So in some ways at least, encouraged by the ancient restraints that comedy can impose, Verdi and Wagner become most musically proximate in their solitary mature comedies. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z

Like many buffs, I’ve heard Italian singers flounder through Verdi and German singers bark through Wagner. Music Review: Britten’s ‘Billy Budd’ at the English National Opera 2012-06-25T22:16:47Z

Ms. Koch, whose growing repertory includes Wagner roles like Venus and Brangäne, sang with gleaming intensity, while still suggesting a fragile, confused young woman. Music Review: A New ‘Werther’ at the Metropolitan Opera 2014-02-19T11:01:44Z

Ms. Voigt is one of the world’s great interpreters of the weighty and refined operatic roles of Wagner, Strauss and Verdi. Deborah Voigt, Meet Ethel Merman 2010-07-22T19:27:00Z

It’s her Wagner debut, too, as it happens — in the role of Sieglinde, mother of “Ring” hero Siegfried. Seattle Opera returns to live performance with outdoors ‘Die Walküre’ concert 2021-08-23T04:00:00Z

Next year, with an ambitious Flying Dutchman, Northern Ireland will have its first Wagner staging for half a century. NI Opera Shorts – review 2012-07-07T23:05:46Z

We tooled past the once-grand French Colonial buildings of Saint-Louis and over another bridge to a busy waterfront crossroads where Ms. Wagner took photos. 4,000 Miles, Seven Countries: An African Adventure on Two Wheels 2019-01-28T05:00:00Z

Whereas many of his contemporaries focused on a relatively narrow repertoire, the South African felt at home in operas ranging from Puccini to Wagner. South African tenor Johan Botha dies at age 51 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z

Wagner made it worse, overseeing the construction of an opera house in Bayreuth, Germany, that remains essentially a Wagnerian shrine. Trump Is Wrong if He Thinks Symphonies Are Superior 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z

Once Wagner’s daughter hit 12 hours of sleep, she says, “It really felt like I made it. I’m in the club.” The Snoo is a $1,500 bassinet — and a touchstone for parental judgment, anxiety and privilege 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

The centrepiece of the celebration of the Wagner bicentenary at next summer's Proms is a Ring in concert. 2013 classical and opera preview: Lulu in Wales and Disney at the ENO 2012-12-30T20:22:01Z

Erica Wagner is the former literary editor of The Times of London. Where to Have Your Existential Crisis: Ann Arbor or Rome? 2019-03-25T04:00:00Z

Then the captain's secretary, remote control in hand, activated a CD player that began to play Wagner's wedding march from "Lohengrin." T Magazine: The Love Boat 2012-11-14T22:00:06Z

Ms. Gregson Wagner was on a sleepover at the Hollywood Hills home of her best friend, who had a new clock radio. A Mother’s Death, a Daughter’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wagner won a Tony Award for “City of Angels,” his second for scenic design following one in 1978 for “On the Twentieth Century.” Robin Wagner, Set Designer Who Won Three Tony Awards, Dies at 89 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

“It’s a Verdi and Wagner season, and I don’t have so much Verdi or Wagner.” Pretty Yende, a Soprano From South Africa 2013-02-01T22:37:34Z

Sometimes a special sound effect requires it, like the booming offstage voice of Fafner the dragon in Wagner’s “Siegfried.” Wearing a Wire at the Opera, Secretly, of Course 2013-06-28T19:47:55Z

"Recently sheriff's homicide investigators were contacted by persons who stated they had additional information about the Natalie Wood Wagner drowning," the sheriff's department said in a statement. Actress Natalie Wood's death gets new investigation 2011-11-18T01:43:55Z

Steinman, in particular, has the ability to combine melodic accessibility and saga-like length in his songs — he is the Wagner of the teenage wasteland, his songs bloated and addictive. The Pop Musical: Go Big (and Loud) or Go Home 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Wagner later testified that he remembered last seeing his wife at 10.45pm. Natalie Wood: drowning reclassified by US coroner 2013-01-14T21:09:00Z

Like most things in a theater, there’s the basic mundane thing, which is that we have not so many Wagner singers, and they are reducing in number every year. ‘A Stone in the Mosaic’: A Director Enters the House of Wagner 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

By the time Barenboim got to Salzburg, Austria, where he was to lead the Vienna Philharmonic in a program that included the second act of Wagner’s “Parsifal,” his condition had worsened. Daniel Barenboim, a Towering Maestro Held Back by Illness 2022-11-08T05:00:00Z

His daughter, the flower girl, sparkled as the bride’s “mini-me,” Ms. Wagner said, in a fluffy white dress. Winning With Bingo, and Then Bringing Her the Stars 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z

The climax comes with more Wagner, as a reprise of the duet becomes a trio. Review: In John Jasperse’s ‘Visitation,’ Mortality Seduces 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

“For my part,” he told Wagner, “I belonged to my time”: an admission proved as much by the astonishing end of his career as by his astonishing music. The Puzzle of Rossini?s Brief Career 2011-07-03T02:00:06Z

Much of the vocal writing recalls Massenet, sometimes Puccini or Strauss, while the overloaded orchestral textures, containing everything from Wagner to Weill, churn away below, oblivious to what the vocal lines imply. Prima Donna 2010-04-13T20:35:00Z

Wagner intended Wotan and his clan of gods to seem like an extended dysfunctional family, a notion Ms. Zambello’s concept gets across. Critic?s Notebook: To Seal a Director?s Reputation, Put a ?Ring? on It 2011-07-04T21:00:06Z

Ms. Wagner has her Sachs, the baritone James Rutherford, intone this warning with grim severity, his hands hovering over a sacred flame. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

When Morse, collapses on an Oxford quad, Fauré’s Requiem is, conveniently but poignantly, being sung in the college chapel, and becomes the soundtrack to the closing sequence, until Morse’s beloved Wagner underscores his last breath. From ER to The Sopranos: what were the most shocking TV deaths? 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z

“Wagner is determined to look at her family with the coldest eye, making excuses for no one.” 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2018-04-19T04:00:00Z

There’s a beat —  she’s kidding, right? — before the group, which includes playwright Wagner, director Ken Sawyer and, yes, Tomlin, erupts with laughter. Why Lily Tomlin said yes to 'Intelligent Life' without her 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

When Stravinsky was studying with Rimsky-Korsakov, Wagner was a constant topic of conversation: the two regularly attended performances of the “Ring” operas in St. Petersburg, including a “Götterdämmerung” two months before Rimsky-Korsakov’s death. A Rediscovered Stravinsky Work, from Before He Made His Leap Into the Unknown 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z

"It was very beautiful to watch, and it was important that it was faithful to Wagner's idea," said Georges Schuerch, president of the local Wagner society. Geneva's 'Parsifal' ends in embrace 2010-03-19T15:20:00Z

But what is new is the way Wagner mines an entire opera's worth of musical drama from the myriad harmonic implications that this collection of notes opens up. Tristan und Isolde – Wagner's love supreme 2012-12-20T18:00:01Z

Theology aside, there is a clear musical debt to Wagner. A Rare Performance of Elgar’s ‘Gigantic Work’ 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z

The second, which was also part of the free Battery Dance Festival, transpired early Monday evening in the heat and humidity of Robert F. Wagner Jr. Park, against the spectacular backdrop of New York Harbor. Broad Hints of Modern Angst at a Festival of Indian Dance 2016-08-16T04:00:00Z

She initially had “a big, rather wild voice” that was not heavy enough for Wagner, she said, although she did not realize this until she heard “Wagner sung as it should be.” Joan Sutherland, Opera Soprano, Dies 2010-10-11T16:29:00Z

Schweitzer has a perfectly sensible explanation for this: Wagner’s operas are about gods, myths and fantastical creatures, while the stories that Verdi tells are about human relationships. How ‘A Mad Love’ of Opera Has Played Out From 17th-Century Mantua to 21st-Century New York 2018-11-28T05:00:00Z

Far from being an assemblage of “effects without causes,” as Wagner once charged, “Huguenots” is an all-too-pertinent political drama in which tolerance falls prey to murderous fanaticism. Notable Performances and Recordings of 2018 2018-12-06T05:00:00Z

“It was like, ‘Hey, do you wanna stage a Wagner opera?’ ” recalled Mr. Blumenstein, who will enter the University of California, Santa Barbara, as a graduate student in mathematics in the fall. A Student Startup and Its Outsize Wagnerian Dream 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z

After 20 years tickling the ivories at the fabled Aurora Avenue restaurant perched overlooking Lake Union, Wagner is retiring. Walt Wagner, longtime Canlis pianist, is retiring ... and Sub Pop will be there to document it 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z

One can’t help feeling that Wagner’s statements about Jews being subhuman had come home to roost, and that the taint of the Holocaust on him is not entirely unwarranted. From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Even in her own family, Ms. Wagner said, one son-in-law doesn’t come to gatherings. This Life: Just One Big, Happy Family? 2013-08-30T20:36:44Z

Since then investigators have interviewed more than 100 people, but Wagner has refused and Corina said the actor's representatives have not given any reason for his silence. Robert Wagner not interviewed in new Wood inquiry 2013-01-18T00:00:12Z

Where would music be today if Wagner had been able to copyright his "Tristan" chord? 'Blurred Lines' verdict would rock Amadeus and other great composers 2015-03-14T04:00:00Z

Other concerts will be at Joe’s Pub, City Winery and Robert F. Wagner Park in Lower Manhattan, where the “Stomp”-like Israeli troupe Tararam will perform on Aug. 7. KulturfestNYC Expands After a Successful Debut 2016-05-22T04:00:00Z

Wagner had long hair – "down to my waist" – and the good ol' boys would throw things at him on the street and shout abuse. Kurt Wagner on Lambchop, Nashville ? and being seen as a redneck 2012-02-10T00:00:01Z

The 10 performances this year of “Meistersinger,” the festival’s second Wagner undertaking, sold out immediately. Opera Review: On Opposite Shores: 'Meistersinger' and 'Rosenkavalier' 2011-05-24T18:30:06Z

Cabinets, chairs and lamps by the architects Otto Wagner, Josef Hoffmann and Adolf Loos are arranged with drawings by Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele, to suggest a room of the period. Salon Art + Design, a Fair With Wit, Cheek, History 2018-11-09T05:00:00Z

No soprano could match her stamina, and with her down-to-earth personality she managed the feat of making Wagner seem wholesome. A Tale of Two Sopranos: Astrid Varnay and Birgit Nilsson 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

When this production, which used imagery of the Industrial Revolution to contextualize Wagner’s mythic tale, was introduced in 1976 for the centennial of the “Ring,” Mr. Chéreau’s staging struck many as brashly modern and outrageous. Classical Music on Disc, on DVD and in Books 2012-11-22T21:26:23Z

“I had to, like, soothe everyone around me,” says Wagner, who assured her husband’s parents that the Snoo was “not a robo-nanny.” The Snoo is a $1,500 bassinet — and a touchstone for parental judgment, anxiety and privilege 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

BAYREUTH, Germany — The pilgrims to the Green Hill, who have been making their way to the storied festival Richard Wagner founded here 145 years ago, looked more like cattle on Sunday. Review: At Wagner’s Festival, a ‘Dutchman’ Never Sails 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z

At the time of her death, Ms. Wood had been married for nearly a decade to Mr. Wagner, whom she first married in 1957, then divorced in 1962 before marrying him again in 1972. A Mother’s Death, a Daughter’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

The answer finally comes in the Mahler and the Wagner — and the Handel. Joyce DiDonato Wants Music to ‘Build a Paradise for Today’ 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z

Wagner said that Brahms's Handel variations, which McCawley played before the interval, showed what could still be done with old forms by someone who knew how to use them. Leon McCawley ? review 2010-12-03T22:30:00Z

It seems ideal for Wagner’s more mythic works, and thrives in Ariadne’s opulent stylization; here is a role Davidsen was truly born for. Review: A Soprano’s Sound Floods the Met in ‘Ariadne’ 2022-03-03T05:00:00Z

July 28, 2010, 3:54 pm Huge Set for ‘The Ring’ Arrives at the Met Ruby Washington/New York Times The set of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle is rolled onto the mainstage of the Metropolitan Opera. Huge Set for 'The Ring' Arrives at the Met 2010-07-28T19:57:00Z

The year 1813 was a good one for opera, with Richard Wagner born then too, so the Met is also tying the season to him. Metropolitan Opera Announces 2012-13 Lineup 2012-02-23T22:13:11Z

Unsurprisingly, Daub, who has written books on Wagner and four-handed piano playing, is more rigorous than Andreessen when it comes to critical analysis. ‘What Tech Calls Thinking’ Might Really Be Something Else 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z

Davern said he later heard Wagner and Wood screaming at each other on the yacht. Review of Natalie Wood's death ignites curiosity 2011-11-19T05:26:17Z

None of this means that the ban on the playing of Wagner in Israel and by Israeli orchestras is anything other than utterly understandable. Richard Wagner was no ranter 2011-07-25T21:00:01Z

More than 30 years later, the memory of that death — and the decades-long controversy that surrounded it — remains a powerful one for Ms. Gregson Wagner, one that she has rarely spoken about publicly. A Mother’s Death, a Daughter’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

He likes to emphasize the melodic shape of a work more than its harmonic grounding; a “Tristan” Prelude and Liebestod on an iffy Wagner collection is therefore pretty, but slack. What Gustavo Dudamel’s Recordings Reveal About His Conducting 2023-05-13T04:00:00Z

A symposium last month at Wagner’s opulent home, Villa Wahnfried, which is now a museum, explored “Wagner and National Socialism.” Watching Neo-Nazis in Virginia From a German Opera House 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z

He quotes a friend, the artist Mark Wagner: “Things help me think.” At the Dumbo Arts Festival, a Dumpster Full of Memories 2011-09-22T21:31:36Z

The Wagner was superbly presented, with no sentimentality but simply an evenly breathed tenderness, the slow-burn intensity provided by the strings' exceptional warmth of tone at the low dynamic levels. Prom 27: BBCSSO/Runnicles – review 2012-08-05T13:28:28Z

Ms. Stemme, probably the most exciting exponent of the Wagner/Strauss wing of the dramatic soprano repertory right now, was a vocally blazing yet eerily alluring Salome. Music Review: The Cleveland Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-25T23:35:51Z

Wagner was a professed anti-Semite, his descendants were closely tied to the Nazi movement and Hitler was one of the composer’s biggest fans. ‘Wagner & Me’: Love of German composer’s music, tainted by history 2013-01-24T21:59:01Z

Blair Berk, an attorney for Wagner and his family, said the actor had cooperated with authorities since his wife died. Robert Wagner not interviewed in new Wood inquiry 2013-01-18T00:00:12Z

This means, however, that they should be held to account, Ms. Wagner said, and present the works at the highest level. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z

To prepare, Wagner recommends stocking fever and anti-inflammatory medicines, researching how testing and treatment for the coronavirus works in your area and with your doctor, and getting a flu shot. Experts offer advice on how to create a well-stocked home first-aid kit 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z

That excludes him from the Puccini, Verdi and Wagner that dominate many opera companies’ programming. The falsetto pharoah: The story behind the powerfully high voice in L.A. Opera's 'Akhnaten' 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z

She loved gardenias, with which Mr. Wagner would fill the house to celebrate his wife’s July birthday. A Mother’s Death, a Daughter’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

Put simply, Wagner can't afford to maintain a huge band, which is why he's always turned down offers to perform a Don't Look Back-style recreation of Nixon on stage. Kurt Wagner on Lambchop, Nashville ? and being seen as a redneck 2012-02-10T00:00:01Z

Wagner uses musical tricks to toy with his audience, says Mr Dreyfus. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z

She begins rehearsals in September as that character in “Siegfried,” the third installment in Wagner’s “Ring” cycle at the Met. Opera Star Tries Doin? What Comes Natur?lly 2011-07-14T22:16:30Z

“If Wagner had only written his 3,000 pages of prose, he would be remembered as a kook, a second-rate maniacal thinker,” Steinberg said. Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

Wagner lost his father to alcoholism last December, and much of the album grapples with both his death and the trauma he inflicted while he was alive. REVIEW: The Raveonettes Tackle Childhood Trauma on Pe'ahi 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z

Recalling his first experience with “The Tree of Life,” he said it was most like seeing Wagner’s opera “Parsifal,” which tends to alter how an audience perceives the passage of time. ‘The Tree of Life’ Unfurls, With a Live Orchestra and Choir 2016-11-17T05:00:00Z

Isolde begins hating Tristan in Wagner’s opera, but she ends up in a state of transcendent love that can leave an opera lover permanently transformed. Classical music can unite and console in troubling, angry times 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z

There is always an unresolvable tension between narrative and symbolism in Wagner, but so far this production remains hobbled by it. A rousing Ring 2012-09-25T16:40:00Z

“It’s really no different than the data we would collect from any one of the millions of people who enter the U.S. each day,” Mr. Wagner said. The Getaway: Speedy Airport Security: Should You Apply? 2012-10-03T15:51:40Z

Mr. Pappano recalled a rehearsal in London for Wagner’s “Ring”: “When she opened her mouth, we were all stunned. The voice has a light in it.” A ‘One-in-a-Million Voice’ Arrives at the Met Opera 2019-11-22T05:00:00Z

Watch hereCosima was 24 years younger than Wagner, and outlived him by almost half a century, dying at the age of 92 in 1930. A to Z of Wagner: C is for Cosima 2013-02-13T14:06:17Z

Mr. Volle said that he had originally been scheduled to make his Met debut a couple of seasons ago, in comparatively small roles in Wagner’s “Götterdämmerung” and Humperdinck’s “Hansel and Gretel.” Michael Volle’s Opera Profile Is Rising 2014-03-26T14:04:25Z

When he accepted the Wagner family's invitation to direct at the Bayreuth festival in 2004, it caused surprise because of his iconoclasm and his well-known aversion to all things tainted by association with Hitler. Christoph Schlingensief obituary 2010-08-24T17:44:00Z

Even in early Wagner, the conductor is crucial, and Dominic Wheeler drove the whole thing along with panache. Die Feen – review 2013-03-20T18:38:56Z

“It’s something that I love. You like to think that Verdi, Puccini, Wagner will still be around 100 years from now for people to enjoy, the way it is now.” Met’s Labor Woes Divide Opera Fans as Well as Participants 2014-08-10T04:00:00Z

What is revolutionary about it, Mr. Gelb insisted, is that “Robert Lepage may be the first director to execute what Wagner actually wanted to see onstage.” Critic?s Notebook: Peter Gelb on Wagner?s ?Ring? Cycle at Met Opera 2012-04-03T18:45:55Z

Wagner packs so much into little space here. Nina Stemme on a Love and Loss in ‘Tristan und Isolde’ 2016-09-22T04:00:00Z

“We are not trying to destroy beautiful pieces of art,” Wagner said, but to “shock people” into acting on climate change. How Do You Tell a Vandal From a Visitor? Art Museums Are Struggling. 2022-11-24T05:00:00Z

Many Wagner devotees actually enjoy a good “Ring” satire, perhaps because we admit that, however compelling, its giants, river maidens and dwarfs are a little laughable. Review: ‘Das Barbecü’ Is Wagner’s ‘Ring’ With a Side of Brisket 2020-01-27T05:00:00Z

Blessed with a bright, heroic sound, Botha soared past the many hurdles in one of Wagner's most taxing roles, tiring slightly only toward the end. Wagner's 'Tannhaeuser' in time of war 2010-12-13T15:00:00Z

For now and perhaps for years to come, Mr. Levine is not going anywhere, and he threw himself into preparations for a new production of Wagner’s “Walküre,” which opened on Friday. On Deck,The Met?s Pinch-Hitter 2011-04-21T13:39:32Z

Israeli ensembles rarely play Wagner, citing the 19th century German composer's anti-Semitism and Hitler's affinity for his work. Israeli university cancels planned Wagner concert 2012-06-06T14:36:34Z

Wagner is especially beloved by him, and he has conducted the overwhelming majority of “Ring” opera performances since the introduction of the previous production, by Otto Schenk, in the mid-1980s, and every complete cycle. Levine Cuts Back on Work for the Met 2011-03-21T23:19:01Z

“And now we’re deep into it, and we can’t stop it,” Wagner says of the production, which is set to open Oct. Why Lily Tomlin said yes to 'Intelligent Life' without her 2016-10-12T04:00:00Z

Since then, more witnesses have emerged that have led the police to reclassify Ms. Wood’s death as “suspicious” and to consider Mr. Wagner, now 89, as “a person of interest.” Lana Wood, Natalie’s Little Sister, Has Plenty to Say 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

Except that, as Richard Wagner always said to his children: "Do something new." Bayreuth's King Lear | Martin Kettle 2010-03-23T09:30:00Z

My first images of Wagner weren't all completely wrong. Wagner: beauty in the eye of the beholder 2011-07-14T15:01:01Z

Wagner is aware that he follows a few singular literary legends whose supposedly unfilmable novels were adapted into some of Cronenberg’s bravest efforts. Bruce Wagner’s ‘Maps to the Stars’ shows dark side of sunny Hollywood 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

Whiting was concerned enough to ask the harbour patrol to keep an eye on them as they returned around 10.30pm to the 60-ft yacht, the Splendour, which was owned by Wagner and Wood. Natalie Wood: drowning reclassified by US coroner 2013-01-14T21:09:00Z

And yet Wagner abides; there I was, going through old Bayreuth recordings of “Tristan” and “Tannhäuser,” the two mature dramas I did not see, on the plane home. In a Wagnerian Whirlwind, One Conductor Breaks Through 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z

"Wagner," declared Simon as we walked away, "is for people who like Big Things." Wagner: beauty in the eye of the beholder 2011-07-14T15:01:01Z

After completing two marathon works, Berlioz's Les Troyens and Wagner's The Ring, he had to sign off with repetitive strain injury. The best classical music of 2012: Fiona Maddocks's choice 2012-12-15T20:00:02Z

I'm not defending it, necessarily, in those terms, but surely in Wagner the fate of the characters is in the music. Composer Thomas Adès: 'Wagner is a fungus' 2012-09-28T21:48:01Z

It begins with the prelude to Wagner's Parsifal, ending with sets of orchestral pieces by the composers of the second Viennese school, Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. This week's new live music 2010-08-27T23:05:00Z

Be prepared for big, sweeping sound — from Wagner to Queen — as Nordic gods celebrate the end of the world in Teatro ZinZanni’s newest production. Arts and entertainment highlights for the week of Feb. 10 2013-02-06T23:03:48Z

Clark, who is British, and Wagner, who is American, are not Lowry specialists. LS Lowry: the people's artist comes in from the cold 2013-06-08T23:05:10Z

It will be the first time an Israeli orchestra plays Wagner in Germany. Israeli orchestra confronts taboo at Wagner shrine 2011-07-24T17:01:54Z

The peak of his directorial career may have been a production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle in Manaus, Brazil — the first time it was staged in that country. Seattle Opera’s new general director: Aidan Lang 2013-06-19T22:23:22Z

Equally important is what it achieves dramatically: it is the first Wagner opera in which psychological truth obliterates and subsumes the mythical. What's Wagner's secret? Love, actually 2013-04-25T16:00:01Z

Mr. Momtazi surmised that Mr. Wagner hasn’t exactly embraced them, either. Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

This being an opera by the mature Wagner, that uniting involves something other than people hiding in closets, or wicker baskets, or disguises and mistaken identity, or misleading billets doux. Wagner and Verdi: A harmony of opposites 2013-06-20T09:15:00Z

Westbroek, a Dutch soprano much admired in the standard repertory of Wagner, Verdi and Puccini, throws herself into the title role with all of her considerable assets. Anna Nicole, the opera: She aims to sleaze 2011-02-18T01:35:12Z

Wagner cited President Franklin Roosevelt, who has been honored despite his internment of Japanese Americans during world war two. California lawmakers reject John Wayne Day over racist statements 2016-04-29T04:00:00Z

A reader who cannot immediately identify with a handful of canonical names — Wagner, Debussy, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Berg, Webern, Bartok and, of course, Boulez — may feel left out of the conversation. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z

In fact, Wagner’s characters all feel human here. Review: The Philharmonic Makes Wagner’s Gods Chillingly Human 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z

But it was classily done and contains some dazzling scenes – above all, a sequence in which the toil and clang of Wagner's Nibelheim illustrate Engels's descriptions of industrial Manchester. Die Walk?re/The Madness of an Extraordinary Plan - review 2011-07-17T15:28:14Z

There’s another tiny endowment, about $125,000, that funds repairs to the Wagner House. Is Winedale historic center succumbing to neglect? 2014-07-20T04:00:00Z

“Chasing waterfalls,” as Wagner calls it, can lead to anxiety. The Snoo is a $1,500 bassinet — and a touchstone for parental judgment, anxiety and privilege 2021-07-12T04:00:00Z

He paints dark and dangerous times, with hurricanes and murderers threatening Wagner, Brickhill and Rebecca. Michael Koryta's 'The Cypress House': a whiff of doom in a whisp of smoke 2011-02-03T00:02:06Z

Whitmore, the sheriff's spokesman, said Wagner was not considered a suspect in Wood's death. Natalie Wood: drowning reclassified by US coroner 2013-01-14T21:09:00Z

She catches herself humming "Ding Dong Merrily on High" on the walk over to Doc Wagner's house, where she runs into Jack again. All Hallmark Christmas movies are horror films in disguise 2018-11-19T05:00:00Z

Wagner recounted the events leading to her death in his autobiography "Pieces of My Heart: A Life." Book Talk: Actor Robert Wagner on his long career in Hollywood 2014-04-10T09:05:27Z

Lord of the Ring … a statue of Richard Wagner in Tiergarten park, Berlin. Wagner bicentenary: the music is still what matters most 2013-05-21T23:59:01Z

Mr. Schneider­-Siemssen worked large — he designed seven different productions of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle — and small, creating sets for the Salzburg Marionette Theater. Günther Schneider-­Siemssen, Opera Stage Designer, Dies at 88 2015-06-03T04:00:00Z

An opening night glitch involving the 90,000 pound set muted Wagner's triumphant ending: rather then crossing the rainbow bridge to Valhalla, the performers simply walked off the stage. Met Opera shows high-tech effects for Das Rheingold 2010-09-28T18:22:00Z

When she wrote, it was often while listening to opera by Wagner. Nélida Piñon, Provocative Brazilian Novelist, Is Dead at 85 2022-12-27T05:00:00Z

But on the other hand, I was thinking about Bruce Wagner, who wrote it. David Cronenberg: “Hollywood hasn’t fed me very much. Biting their hand would be gratuitous” 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

How much mirth Jones can wring from Wagner’s epic remains to be seen, and it will be some time before the full picture is clear. The Stakes Are Sky-High for a ‘Ring’ Coming to the Met Opera 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z

For the most part, though, Wagner turns her gaze outward, away from her life as it is right now. Alex Wagner Digs Into Her Family’s Past in ‘Futureface’ 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z

Los Angeles County sheriff’s investigators told 48 Hours, the CBS news magazine series, that they intend to speak to Wagner, 87, regarding the circumstances of Wood’s death in 1981. Robert Wagner is 'person of interest' in Natalie Wood death investigation 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z

Take a snapshot of the ornate facade of the Rumbach Synagogue, a stunning Moorish Revival building from 1872, originally designed by the great Otto Wagner and currently undergoing a much-needed reconstruction. 36 Hours in Budapest 2018-03-29T04:00:00Z

I am now on a strict Wagner exclusion diet until 2013. Julius Caesar; Siegfried – review 2012-10-06T23:08:03Z

So it was with melancholy mixed with anger that Mr. Momtazi gestured up the hill one Thursday in August and pointed at Mr. Wagner, who was tending to his plants. Pot Farmer to Neighbors: Chill Out. Neighbors: No. 2017-09-26T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wagner remarked in 1957 that the “human, the Wagnerian being” was the most important element of his own productions. Wolfgang Wagner, Who Led Bayreuth Festival, Dies at 90 2010-03-22T18:08:00Z

"Do not the dark longings of Wagner's music instil a stirring in your nether regions?" Digested classic: Ann Veronica by HG Wells 2010-03-26T14:06:00Z

And it’s not exactly neutral in the context of Wagner. Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin’ Uses the Word ‘Führer.’ Keep It There. 2023-02-15T05:00:00Z

And the audience, which is the most advanced Wagner audience in the world — they know everything about the reception history of this repertoire. ‘A Stone in the Mosaic’: A Director Enters the House of Wagner 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z

The “Ring” and its mythically based libretto, written by Wagner in the middle of the 19th century and then put to music over the next quarter century, is a fruitful mine of interpretation. ArtsBeat: A Place to Talk About the "Ring" by Wagner at the Metropolitan Opera 2012-04-06T17:04:47Z

Wagner has been accused of many things in the past, but parasitical infection is a new one to add to the list. Has Gustavo Dudamel fallen from his pedestal? 2010-06-02T15:20:00Z

Take his discussion of anti-Semitism, which looms large in the popular understanding of Wagner. Getting into Valhalla 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z

Whether Mr. Wagner can be charged with a crime isn’t clear. Lana Wood, Natalie’s Little Sister, Has Plenty to Say 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z

Mr. van Zweden is pushing the Hong Kong Philharmonic into more challenging repertoire – with more Mahler, more Wagner and more contemporary composition. Jaap Van Zweden Is a Global Maestro of Music and Multitasking 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z

Ms. Gregson Wagner has been working on processing this all for 35 years. A Mother’s Death, a Daughter’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

The author wasn't much more thrilled with a 1976 Granada TV production, starring Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof: Tennessee Williams's southern discomfort 2012-09-30T19:00:11Z

As Wagner swells, they roll on the ground, nearly like lovers in the waves, from here to eternity. Review: In John Jasperse’s ‘Visitation,’ Mortality Seduces 2022-09-11T04:00:00Z

Nick Wagner, director of guest experiences at the Marco Island Marriott, credits the hotel’s three miles of white sand for luring guests. Sand Sculptures for a Beach Wedding 2016-07-07T04:00:00Z

All this, the merest sample of Munn's style, comes from a couple of pages: reading his book is like listening to Wagner without the music. Hitler and the Nazi Cult of Celebrity by Michael Munn ? review 2012-05-17T12:35:57Z

His point of departure for the installation, he said in an interview, was Wagner’s infamous essay “Jewishness in Music.” Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

There are also some piano pieces by Wagner, including a youthful 26-minute fantasy, a fascinating, if not great, work: you hear the 19-year-old Wagner beholden both to Beethoven and bel canto opera. Classical Playlist: Handel's 'Messiah,' Beethoven, Schumann and More 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Photograph: Patrick Redmond Using a simple three-note roar and plenty of fortissimo orchestral crashes, Wagner whips up harsh weather and bleak seas in the overture to The Flying Dutchman. The Flying Dutchman; Medea – review 2013-02-24T00:07:18Z

In a “Tannhäuser” he staged in Barcelona, for example, he transported Wagner’s tale of a singing knight to the studio of a contemporary painter. Robert Carsen Is Opera’s Most Reliably Excellent Director 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z

And most acutely, she observed, “Like Shakespeare, Wagner seems to have attained … such a mastery of technique that he could float and soar in regions where in the beginning he could scarcely breathe.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

The lights are the centerpiece of the staging by Robert Lepage, who runs the production company Ex Machina and has directed theater, films, circuses and the Met’s much-debated production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle. With 28,000 LEDs, It’s Lights! Lights! Lights! Action! 2016-11-30T05:00:00Z

Like Wagner, he believed that operas should generally be performed in the native language of the audience—a conviction that marked him as something other than a purist. Postscript: Andrew Porter (1928-2015) 2015-04-04T04:00:00Z

Both Wagner and Walken were questioned on the events of the night time and time again, and their accounts often conflicted, but no charges were ever filed. Will we ever know what really happened to Natalie Wood? 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z

Mr. Wagner’s Web site said the guitarist had many health issues, surviving two heart attacks, a stroke, a paralyzed left arm, kidney failure and diabetes. Dick Wagner, rock guitarist who co-wrote many of Alice Cooper’s hits, dies at 71

However, many composers, increasingly isolated in music departments, lost direct contact with mainstream audiences, something that never happened to radicals like Beethoven and Wagner. Just Why Does New Music Need Champions? 2016-11-04T04:00:00Z

Not to be outdone, soprano Amber Wagner poured forth streams of opulent sound, registering just enough terror in her voice in the Libera Me section. L.A. Master Chorale delivers a mighty, thrilling Verdi Requiem 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z

Selling many thousands of copies, it defined Wagner singing in the minds of the broader public. A Tale of Two Sopranos: Astrid Varnay and Birgit Nilsson 2018-06-06T04:00:00Z

But she remains fiercely proud of “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe,” the one-woman play that was written for her by Jane Wagner, her wife and longtime creative collaborator. Continuing ‘The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe’ 2021-12-22T05:00:00Z

After he canceled a much-anticipated new production of Wagner’s “Ring” in October, it seemed possible that Barenboim might not conduct again. A Mighty Generation of Musicians. A Moving Final Chapter. 2023-01-17T05:00:00Z

As the author has written elsewhere, “To hold Wagner in some way responsible for Hitler trivializes a hugely complicated historical situation; in a sense, it takes the rest of Western civilization off the hook.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z

Theater was a social outing, like a fancy party, until composer Richard Wagner conceived of theater as a form of civic communion. What’s in the box? Demystifying box seats and tips on finding the best seats for the opera and symphony. 2019-11-05T05:00:00Z

It was the first time Wagner had been played officially in Israel since 1938, and reactions quickly turned ugly. Jascha Heifetz in the Case of the Violinist and the Fanatical Doorman 2023-04-10T04:00:00Z

The production is also traditional in that Mr. Lepage essentially defers to Wagner. Music Review: At Met, the New ?Ring? Is Mostly a Success 2010-09-28T06:30:00Z

Yes, Wagner’s music stirred up extreme passions when it was new, and French musicians seemed particularly susceptible. ‘Saint-Saëns and His World’ at Bard 2012-07-20T17:08:16Z

Nézet-Séguin, the Met’s music director, was running through the first act of Wagner’s “Lohengrin,” which opens in a new staging on Sunday. A New ‘Lohengrin,’ Threatened by War in Ukraine, Comes to the Met 2023-02-23T05:00:00Z

The music draws from the heritage of Bach, Liszt and Wagner, while taking modern paths and anticipating atonality. ArtsBeat: Classical Playlist: Stephanie Blythe, Eva-Maria Houben, Nicholas Phillips and More 2014-03-05T17:18:59Z

And scattered on the spacious grounds are re-creations of scenes and settings from the Wagner operas. Critic’s Notebook: Exploring Bavaria and the Busoni International Piano Festival 2012-09-07T23:47:51Z

Wagner’s libretto is filled with stage directions that were unrealistic for his day, including underwater episodes with the Rhinemaidens swirling about. Critic?s Notebook: Peter Gelb on Wagner?s ?Ring? Cycle at Met Opera 2012-04-03T18:45:55Z

Wagner lived a happy and fulfilled life that was inseparable from the Bayreuth Festival... Wagner's grandson dies at age 90 2010-03-22T17:09:00Z

Wieland's daughter Nike was a musicologist and academic with high credentials as a thoughtful critic of her great-grandfather's works and of the Wagner family's ways, who could have been a distinguished dramaturg of the festival. Wolfgang Wagner obituary 2010-03-22T14:24:00Z

Hasham also took the critics' workshop, and was motivated to earn an arts administration degree at New York’s Wagner College. Holly Arsenault, introducing teens to the arts 2013-12-07T16:36:41Z

It's a nervousness that would have baffled or irritated Verdi, Wagner or Puccini, but Britten, in 1945, wasn't alone in feeling it. A History of Opera by Carolyn Abbate and Roger Parker – review 2012-12-13T07:53:01Z

When he was being treated, Wagner came face to face with the cost of healthcare in the US. Kurt Wagner on Lambchop, Nashville ? and being seen as a redneck 2012-02-10T00:00:01Z

Then again, maybe Escobar is so inhuman as to be unknowable and looking into Wagner Moura’s eyes will bring us as close as we could hope to get. ‘Narcos’ Season 2, Episode 2: The Legend vs. the Monster 2016-09-03T04:00:00Z

Another plus point is that Nina Stemme, arguably the world's greatest Wagner soprano, sings all the Brünnhildes. Wu-Tang Clan, Atoms For Peace, Akron/Family: this week's new live music 2013-07-20T05:00:00Z

I was a freelance critic, but not on duty, when I attended a Saturday matinee performance of Wagner’s sprawling comedy “Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg” at the Metropolitan Opera in December 1995. Taking Stock of James Levine’s Tarnished Legacy 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z

The asymmetry “may potentially lead to lower rankings of articles about women in search results,” Ms. Wagner said. MoMA to Host Wikipedia Editing Marathon, to Improve Coverage of Women in the Arts 2015-03-06T05:00:00Z

"She said, 'Oh, Nancy, I've loved you so long I really must kiss you again,' but at that point I managed to escape," Wagner recalled. 'As the World Turns' matriarch Wagner dies at 91 2010-05-03T10:50:00Z

It is one of the pinnacle roles in all of opera: Wotan, king of the gods in Wagner’s epic “Ring.” A New Wotan Reigns in the Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Ring’ 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z

The owner of The Huddle, Pete Wagner, later said that he made a mistake. Veteran with service dog denied entry to Pittsburgh restaurant 2019-11-16T05:00:00Z

In the cultural sphere, this mentality found its leading advocate in Wagner, with his often anti-Semitic calls for a “purely ‘German’ art.” How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z

Two of the great modernist works in our literature, Ulysses and The Wasteland, are suffused with Wagner. Why Stephen Fry loves Wagner 2010-09-23T22:13:00Z

In a letter, a distraught Wagner admitted his music had "driven the singer to the abyss". A disease called Richard? Wagner as mental health menace 2013-05-22T10:54:15Z

And what he recycled there was less a matter of cartons and cans than Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Wagner, Dumas, Gothic novels, ball gowns, B movies, sex manuals and superhero comic books. Review: Charles Ludlam in the Cosmos Where ‘Queens Collide’ 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z

Konieczny brought unusual charisma and nobility to the designated villain of Wagner’s epic tetralogy, and his Dutchman is likewise a complex creation. Review: A Singer Returns to Shore at the Met in ‘Dutchman’ 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z

The mezzo-soprano was a renowned interpreter of Wagner, Mozart and Strauss who starred on the world’s great stages for four decades. Final goodbye: Recalling influential people who died in 2021 2021-12-02T05:00:00Z

Darke speaks in “a strangulated croak, like a frog singing Wagner”. “Darke”, an unforgettable figure 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z

During one take, however, he got too close to the camera and sprayed powder all over the lens while also turning Mr. Wagner’s hair white. Auteur Sprint: The 48 Hour Film Project 2010-06-08T23:01:00Z

In case you haven't yet absorbed Ken Russell's silly point that Wagner is Hitler, Wagner is now actually dressed as Hitler. Lisztomania: the most embarrassing historical film ever made? 2013-02-06T10:22:00Z

Mr. Levine cancelled the last remaining dates on his schedule — two cycles of Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen” in April and May — and withdrew from all productions he had planned to lead next season. ArtsBeat Blog: James Levine Withdraws Indefinitely From Conducting at the Met 2011-12-09T20:35:56Z

“It is music born of great ambition, and it sounds like that,” Mr. Trippett wrote in an email, saying that he heard in it elements from Liszt’s Petrarch Sonnets and glimmers of Wagner. Listen to the First Glimpse of a Long-Lost Liszt Opera 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z

Robert W. Gutman, whose influential biographies of Wagner and Mozart helped upend popularly held ideas about both composers’ lives, died on Friday in the Bronx. Robert W. Gutman, Biographer of Wagner and Mozart, Dies at 90 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z

He was naturally drawn to the music of Wagner, his son-in-law. Classical Playlist: Handel's 'Messiah,' Beethoven, Schumann and More 2014-11-19T05:00:00Z

Even more importantly, he paced the whole evening as well as I've ever heard a Wagner opera in performance. Two conductors fight it out in the Wagner ring 2010-08-02T11:38:00Z

Recently the San Francisco Opera presented the director Francesca Zambello’s inventively updated staging of Wagner’s “Ring,” a co-production with the Washington National Opera, though this was the first performance of the complete cycle. Critic?s Notebook: To Seal a Director?s Reputation, Put a ?Ring? on It 2011-07-04T21:00:06Z

The regiment earned renown for leading thousands of men in the July 18, 1863, storming of Fort Wagner, an eyetooth in the jaw of defenses around Charleston Harbor. How a forensic artist attempted to re-create the face of a Black Civil War soldier 2020-12-22T05:00:00Z

The grotesque humor of Mr. Wagner’s script feels less like a distancing gesture — hey, let’s laugh at these freaks — than a route toward empathy. Review: David Cronenberg Dissects Hollywood in ‘Maps to the Stars’ 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z

He never heard Wagner, though he welcomed compliments comparing his poetry to Wagner’s librettos. How Opera Inspired Walt Whitman’s ‘Leaves of Grass’ 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z

As a director, I was playing the role of Bruce Wagner and thinking the way he was thinking. David Cronenberg: “Hollywood hasn’t fed me very much. Biting their hand would be gratuitous” 2015-03-02T05:00:00Z

“And all the lighting bars were basically platforms,” Mr. Wagner told Playbill, “so the actors could climb up on those things and fly out, which they did.” Robin Wagner, Set Designer Who Won Three Tony Awards, Dies at 89 2023-05-30T04:00:00Z

Author of a monumental biography of Orson Welles, Callow now turns to an equally operatic subject: Richard Wagner, his life and times. New & Noteworthy 2018-02-06T05:00:00Z

Putting the orchestra in a lowered pit Dimming the lights for the performance Interval ice-creams The Wagner tuba Which composer conducted the world premiere of Lohengrin? How well do you know your Wagner – quiz 2013-05-22T06:00:00Z

The woman replied by sending Ms. Gregson Wagner three pairs of high-heeled shoes that belonged to her mother that she had happened upon in the house. A Mother’s Death, a Daughter’s Life: Remembering Natalie Wood 2016-03-19T04:00:00Z

“There’s nothing like this anywhere,” said Jason Wagner, an engineer at Reclamation’s technical center in Denver. Spiral fish slide planned at Cle Elum Dam 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z

BAYREUTH, Germany — About 150 years ago, in a megalomaniac’s coup, Richard Wagner built a theater on a hilltop here in northern Bavaria. Review: A New ‘Ring’ at Bayreuth Does Wagner Without Magic 2022-08-07T04:00:00Z

I am, I realise, more of a Wagner purist than I thought. My perfect Proms 2010-07-08T21:45:00Z

Hitler was a regular at the Wagner festival at Bayreuth, where he was welcomed warmly by the composer’s descendants, and the regime used Wagner’s music in rallies and at official events. Germany Reckons With Wagner: Cultural Jewel, or National Shame? 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z

With this transgressive musical and philosophical programme, it's no surprise that Wagner's music placed new demands on his singers and musicians and on any opera house crazy enough to try to perform it. Tristan und Isolde – Wagner's love supreme 2012-12-20T18:00:01Z

Paula Wagner, a longtime Hollywood agent and producer who led “Pretty Woman” on Broadway, described similar experiences. Who Calls the Shots on Broadway? She Does 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z

Wagner, just 21 years younger, wrote his own librettos and waited for decades to complete an opera, even building his own theater, so that the performances would be precisely as he envisioned them. The Puzzle of Rossini?s Brief Career 2011-07-03T02:00:06Z

In 2018, the sheriff’s department named Robert Wagner “a person of interest” while declaring: “This is not a murder investigation, so he’s not a suspect. This is a suspicious death investigation.” Review | How did Natalie Wood die? Forty years later, her sister offers theories in a new book. 2021-11-09T05:00:00Z

The Wagners re-covered the house so it would match the garden: from wood to a brick of pale pink, the color of one of their favorite rhododendrons. 'Lakewold' book opens door to a magnificent garden 2011-07-29T21:05:05Z

"It's never been a Wagner city," he said in a telephone interview. Wagner: reviled and revered, German history and music entwined 2013-01-27T08:06:07Z

If you like nonconformity or Wagner or both, send them a cheque. Die Walk?re; Siegfried; BBC Proms 23, 26 & 27 ? review 2011-08-06T23:06:26Z

But as someone who loves Elgar’s music, I still have trouble with it historically, as I love and still have trouble with Wagner’s music. Barenboim and Elgar: A Musical Love Story Continues 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z

Well, I, for one, am living proof that you can like both composers' works – but I would have to admit that I prefer Wagner's. Verdi and/or Wagner: Two Men, Two Worlds, Two Centuries by Peter Conrad – review 2013-02-19T12:10:12Z

When “Maps to the Stars,” directed by David Cronenberg from Wagner’s screenplay, opens Feb. 27, audiences will get a startlingly vivid reminder of the writer’s vision, which is at once outrageously scabrous and achingly metaphysical. Bruce Wagner’s ‘Maps to the Stars’ shows dark side of sunny Hollywood 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z

And when Wagner returned to complete the 'Ring' after composing 'Tristan,' he himself was changed. Preview: Seattle Opera stages Wagner's influential 'Tristan und Isolde' 2010-07-25T04:46:00Z

Walken, who has rarely spoken about the events that led to Wood's death, denied in a 1982 interview on "Good Morning America" that he and Wagner quarreled. Natalie Wood detectives face conflicting accounts 2011-11-19T12:47:11Z

True, unlike Wagner, Bruckner was apparently not a vociferous anti-Semite. Music Review: Zubin Mehta, Israel Philharmonic, Collegiate Chorale at Salzburg 2012-07-27T21:23:47Z

Mozart, in his day, was “entertainment”; Beethoven was “entertainment”; Liszt and Chopin certainly were; and even Wagner was. Slickness as transgression: Piano duo pushes boundaries 2016-10-31T04:00:00Z

At the Grand Théâtre de Provence in France, where “Innocence” premiered at the Aix Festival in July, the London Symphony Orchestra filled the pit with enough players to carry a Wagner opera. Best Classical Music of 2021 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z

Jane Wagner, who wrote and directed it, has never made another movie. Revisiting “Moment by Moment,” Lily Tomlin and John Travolta’s Wrongly Despised 1978 Melodrama 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z

Norman brought to bear an inborn authority, which had the effect of reconfiguring the racial tensions surrounding Wagner’s music. The Shimmering Magnificence of Jessye Norman 2019-10-03T04:00:00Z

The works were treated like cheap potboilers, subjected to the kinds of cuts, interpolations and fudgings unthinkable in Mozart, Beethoven or Wagner. Review: Riccardo Muti, the King of Verdi, Still Rules With a Firm Baton 2016-04-22T04:00:00Z

The French music critic Paul Scudo, who detested both of them, called Berlioz and Wagner "enemy brothers sprung from Beethoven's demented old age". Forgotten Berlioz: Rom?o et Juliette 2012-02-09T23:00:02Z