| 单词 | Wagnerian |
| 例句 | But what there is not is an echo of anything remotely Wagnerian. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z 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 Despite the Wagnerian dimensions of her voice, Farrell limited her performances in opera, preferring orchestral concerts and recitals, and maintained a side career on television variety shows. music: Ren?e Fleming?s Crossover to Rock, ?Dark Hope? 2010-05-28T14:47:00Z The Wagnerian veteran’s expansive presence suited this role better than it did Sweeney Todd, to cite Mr. Terfel’s other recent foray into the realm of musical theater. One Musical Knockout After Another 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z At times, for all the bracing vigor and transparency, I wanted more traditional Wagnerian weightiness and depth. Review: A Conductor and Soprano Test Wagnerian Waters 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Decisions that are logistical — keeping audience members in their cars; providing context through poetic narration by Marsha Music; reducing Wagnerian grandeur to a handful of players — are also fitting. Think Outside the Opera House, and Inside the Parking Garage 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Rattle and the Berlin players deftly balanced elements of Schubertian structure and Wagnerian turmoil in the mysterious first movement. Music Review: Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-26T21:18:46Z Later he became an assistant to Reginald Goodall, a Wagnerian of legendary stature here for his work at Sadler’s Wells in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Review: ‘Tristan und Isolde’ Brings Thunder to the Longborough Festival 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z The orchestra and the chorus soon reached a Wagnerian fever pitch. A Student Startup and Its Outsize Wagnerian Dream 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z The Royal Opera's music director Antonio Pappano, steeped in this music, is a judicious, generous Wagnerian, with a passionate comprehension of score and text. Das Rheingold/Die Walküre – review 2012-09-29T23:07:03Z But Aucoin gives the sequence an orchestral accompaniment of Wagnerian grandeur, rising to a pitched climax, as if the father had just built Valhalla. Review: The Met Opera’s ‘Eurydice’ Tries to Raise the Dead 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z His voice is smoky and nimble, able to fill a hall with both the volume of a Wagnerian heldentenor and an exquisite hovering pianissimo. After 4 Years, Jonas Kaufmann Returns to the Met Opera 2018-10-12T04:00:00Z Mr. Boulez conveyed the music’s primordial Wagnerian aura. Music Review: Pierre Boulez Conducts Met Orchestra at Carnegie 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z While the playing wasn’t always polished, Ms. Manson led a convincing interpretation, with a suitably rich string sound in the Wagnerian slow movement. Music Review: Schnittke-Inspired Focus! Concludes With Gubaidulina Work 2014-02-04T22:09:26Z Exhibiting “its own ‘Wagnerian’ heft,” this work of “enormous intellectual range” is “nothing less than a history of ideas.” New in Paperback: ‘The Devil You Know’ and ‘The Lying Life of Adults’ 2021-09-24T04:00:00Z They demonstrate his ineluctable progress within the presumptuous Wagnerian tradition of the gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art. Art Review: A Spectacle With a Message 2010-11-19T06:45:00Z Mr. Barney, a native of San Francisco who lives in Brooklyn, specializes in sculpture, performance and film, preferably fused into a single Wagnerian entity. Matthew Barney, Artist and Ex-Boyfriend, Gets Museum Show in Los Angeles 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z More4 Not to be confused with Downfall the movie, this documentary tells the same story of the Fuhrer's final days, physically shattered but determined to drag down the German people to his own Wagnerian demise. Tim Marlow on Gaugin 2010-10-16T05:45:00Z I find myself gripping his ears and tugging at the locks curling over them, beside myself, and a strange animal noise escapes from me as the mounting, Wagnerian crescendo overtakes me. Were these sex scenes written by a man or a woman? 2012-06-12T11:37:00Z Siegmund’s sword is an important prop in all three acts, and early in the planning, Gerlach suggested that the same sword remain as a kind of Wagnerian leitmotif through the evening; that idea was rejected. One Opera, Three Acts, Three Different Stagings 2022-04-10T04:00:00Z Still, even during this scene, in crucial moments, sparks of the fiery, headstrong Brünnhilde would come through as well when Ms. Goerke sang a phrase with steely Wagnerian power and cool intensity. Christine Goerke as Brünnhilde in Wagner’s ‘Die Walküre’ 2015-02-02T05:00:00Z So the sleeve notes to this collection of early pieces by Gustav Holst describes his Walt Whitman Overture as "positively Wagnerian in its ebullience". Holst: Whitman Overture; Cotswolds Symphony; Indra; Japanese Suite, etc – review 2012-07-04T14:13:23Z 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 On Thursday, it came in the form of what Owens called "wedding cake" stitching alongside billowing-sleeved Samurai silhouettes, and models with wild, Wagnerian hair. Lanvin, Nina Ricci, Balmain are ladylike on day 3 2013-03-01T04:16:08Z And some of the greatest highs I’ve had in a theater have come from Wagnerian operas that threatened to never end. Oh, the dreaded intermission: Long plays at a time when shorter is sweeter 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z The 19th century’s other great theme — see Wagnerian opera — is redemption, and the male protagonist of most 19th-century ballets demonstrates much that needs to be redeemed. Classic Tales Of Temptation In the Woods 2011-05-14T07:11:21Z It’s a lot to take in, and there have been few opportunities; “The Exterminating Angel” is an expensive production, with a sprawling principal cast and an orchestra of Wagnerian heft. Review: A Conductor Takes a Victory Lap With Her Orchestra 2022-10-23T04:00:00Z Since Die Walküre is of Wagnerian length, the dramatic prologue and operatic performance will be split over two evenings. Manchester international festival lines up play on life of Marina Abramovic 2010-09-30T23:33:00Z The pagan pomposity of Larsson's thugs, their Wagnerian self-importance, their magazines called Valhalla and White Rebel or their racist music company named "Ragnarcock Records", are surely both contemptible and comic. The Expo Files by Stieg Larsson? review 2012-05-18T21:54:01Z Life Story,” a Wagnerian opera of a book with a Hansel and Gretel aesthetic, is not as famous, somehow, as “Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel” or “The Little House.” “Life Story,” Virginia Lee Burton’s Picture Book for the Ages 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z No, this wasn’t the equivalent of losing oneself to Wagnerian operatic rapture. The Bowl is no Bayreuth. And with Wagner in Dudamel's defiant hands, that's not a bad thing 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z Phil, perhaps drawing upon the Wagnerian DNA implanted from the “Tristan Project” a decade ago, responded splendiferously. A Wagner 'Ring' sampler: Short, but still so much to savor 2017-04-30T04:00:00Z A full, Wagnerian orchestra with multiple harps and augmented brass is a breathtaking sight in its own right. Opera North tackles Wagner's Ring Cycle – minus the financial dramas 2012-06-12T16:15:28Z In the language of 21st-century art, we might call it an installation; the older, more Wagnerian term would be a gesamtkunstwerk, or total work of art. Britain's garden state 2010-06-08T20:29:00Z Pursuing the Wagnerian parallel, when we get to the Nut Room we are confronted by puppet-squirrels beavering away like so many furry Nibelungen. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – review 2013-06-25T22:00:01Z She was a founder and the vocal director of the Wagner Theater Program at the Manhattan School of Music, which trained students for Wagnerian roles. Barbara Smith Conrad, Singer at Center of Integration Dispute, Dies at 79 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z What I heard was not one of the great neglected scores of early 20th-century British music, but a mixture of the winsome, the wanton and the hand-me-down Wagnerian. A Village Romeo and Juliet – review 2012-09-26T17:41:25Z If they’re lucky, they might achieve a “Wagnerian crescendo,” or at least a “puny muscular spasm.” Authors of Fiction Confront a Problem: How to Write About Sex 2018-02-05T05:00:00Z "I was crazy about Kirsten Flagstad at the time," she would recall later, "so I began to fancy myself as a Wagnerian." Dame Joan Sutherland obituary 2010-10-11T17:56:00Z The programmes would amount to a celebration of a current "golden age of Wagnerian and conducting", said Wright. Last night of Proms 2013 to be conducted by a woman 2013-04-18T13:09:00Z But the lasting test of Longborough is whether it can build on this remarkable cycle and become a focus of Wagnerian excellence for a generation to come. Der Ring des Nibelungen - review 2013-06-24T10:32:45Z Squint hard, and you could read Mabrel’s story as a sort of allegory of awakening, as conceived by a Wagnerian feminist. Review: ‘Fondly, Collette Richland’ Offers Open-Eyed Dreaming 2015-09-28T04:00:00Z Speeds were measured yet urgent, belying his reputation as being, on occasion, a slow-ish Wagnerian. Das Rheingold - review 2013-07-23T09:08:52Z “Not I” shrinks the Wagnerian scale of German history in the 1930s and 1940s to chamber music dimensions. Books of The Times: ‘Not I,’ a Memoir by Joachim Fest 2014-02-18T22:45:43Z As for Andris Nelsons, we have a great Wagnerian in our midst. CBSO/Nelsons: Beethoven cycle, The Flying Dutchman; Eugene Onegin – review 2013-03-24T00:07:02Z It all sounds marvellous, but charmed as I am by the situation and their enthusiasm, I'm beginning to think the Grahams may have fallen off the edge of a Wagnerian precipice of insanity. Bringing Wagner to Gloucestershire 2010-07-22T22:06:00Z Philippe’s boyish good looks might have made him a pop idol, but when he rehearsed his Wagnerian aria, the precision and beauty of his voice made it clear he was where he belonged. Sing for Your Life 2011-05-20T16:00:31Z On the original recording she sounds only mildly Wagnerian — but it still makes for a somewhat peculiar piece of casting. Theater Review: ?Pipe Dream,? From Rodgers and Hammerstein, at Encores! 2012-03-29T21:28:11Z Thus Hitler referenced a Wagnerian vision of Germany as the source of two of the world’s great Reichs in order to present his Third Reich as a continuation of German greatness. Why the 2016 election cycle could be the start of a totalitarian strain in U.S. politics 2016-05-07T04:00:00Z Wagnerians are especially likely to find themselves airborne. What Opera Singers Gained, and Lost, Performing While Pregnant 2023-06-28T04:00:00Z 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 But you could only be grateful to this veteran Wagnerian for learning for this concert a role that he will have few other chances to sing. Music Review: Wagner?s ?Rienzi? From Opera Orchestra at Avery Fisher Hall 2012-02-01T00:07:03Z When he summoned his full voice in fearsome phrases he was the embodiment of a Wagnerian heldentenor. Andris Nelsons Begins Tenure Leading Boston Symphony 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z Here he found exactly the right balance between the clotted-cream richness of Humperdinck’s Wagnerian inheritance and the soufflé-light airiness that much of this particular work demands. Music Review: ?Hansel and Gretel? at Metropolitan Opera - Review 2011-12-18T22:44:20Z The harmonic writing, the plush orchestration, the shimmering string sonorities and the Wagnerian heft of the music carry you along. Music Review: Christian Tetzlaff With the Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall 2012-05-21T22:18:57Z 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 And the Wagnerian “Ending of the vestibular nerve” is swept with diagonal streams of lines and rising neurons. A Deep Dive Into the Brain, Hand-Drawn by the Father of Neuroscience 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Wagnerians look high and low for the Sieglindes, the Brünnhildes, the Isoldes of the future. Review: Heidi Melton Debuts With a Daunting Recital Program 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z In fact, Morris grew stronger as the night wore on, singing his Act 3 narrative with a sweetness of tone rare among Wagnerian heroes. Dalayman's rapturous Immolation caps `Ring' 2013-05-03T15:38:08Z 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 Around me were nothing but Wagnerian voices, and I naturally didn’t want to sound like a gnat in comparison. Tenor Jonas Kaufmann takes on Tristan, opera’s voice killer 2021-06-23T04:00:00Z Ben Heppner, one of the best Wagnerian tenors around, withdrew from performances of the last two installments of the cycle, “Siegfried” and “Götterdämmerung,” next season. ArtsBeat: Ben Heppner Drops Out of the Met's 'Ring' 2011-02-09T00:28:53Z There was little sense of Wagnerian extremism or religious morbidity. Prom 57: GMJO/Gatti – review 2012-08-27T11:29:57Z So did Christine Brewer, the veteran soprano, now in the twilight of a notable Wagnerian career, who shone as Mother Lidoine in “Dialogues of the Carmelites.” In 39th season, Opera Theater of St. Louis shows good health, new work And being a Wagnerian allows one to hate him as well as to admire him at times. With Siegfried at last 2011-07-15T21:54:02Z Here he gave us the familiar revised version, in the process underlining how much more Wagnerian than the rest of the work those later written interludes are. Prom 3: Pelléas et Mélisande – review 2012-07-16T11:08:16Z Yet the emotion and richness of the music seep through, and we also find ourselves in a dreamscape, though of more Debussy-an than Wagnerian hues. Review | When it comes to opera, it doesn’t have to be grand to be good. Case in point: ‘Le Vin Herbé.’ 2019-02-11T05:00:00Z The prize awarded by the Birgit Nilsson Foundation, which was established after the death of Nilsson, a renowned Wagnerian soprano, in 2005. ArtsBeat: Riccardo Muti Awarded $1 Million Birgit Nilsson Prize 2011-03-16T17:15:12Z The evening's real hero, though, is conductor Robin Ticciati, immaculate in his pacing, and breathtaking in his negotiation of the balance between Wagnerian disturbance and folk-based magic. Hansel and Gretel 2010-07-27T20:45:00Z Performances are limited to Saturdays and Sundays to assure that the city’s notorious traffic won’t stretch the opera to Wagnerian lengths. ‘Hopscotch’ Takes Opera Into the Streets 2015-10-30T04:00:00Z The opera blends Wagnerian trademarks like leitmotifs with elements of verismo. American Symphony Orchestra Revives ‘Mona Lisa,’ Inspired by Leonardo’s Muse 2015-02-22T05:00:00Z The Wagnerian legato of the last minor-key variation reached a stentorian fortissimo to emphasize the dissonances of its final cadence. Review | Angela Hewitt’s cinematic Goldberg Variations 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z If Mr. Haas, 60, has previously composed music of Wagnerian intensity, with touches of the Alpine brass of Strauss’s tone poems, then “dark dreams” shifts the emphasis a bit. Music Review: Georg Friedrich Haas’s ‘dark dreams,’ at Berlin Philharmonic 2014-02-23T18:48:18Z The contention is hard to prove either way, which is fortunate for Wagnerians or these works would truly be tainted. A to Z of Wagner: J is for Jews 2013-06-13T15:31:05Z The Tasso adaptations follow the opposite of the classic Romantic narrative, the Wagnerian valorization of a love capable of redeeming a broken world. Tellings of Armida?s Story, Including Gluck?s at Juilliard 2012-02-03T15:51:38Z The dreaded "Wagnerians" were out in force, of course, enough to put anyone off. Wagner: beauty in the eye of the beholder 2011-07-14T15:01:01Z The camp and winking jokes — a Wagnerian soprano interloper, in breastplate and horns, brings down the Act I curtain — are precisely balanced by moments of earnest savagery or tenderness. Review: ‘Ghosts’ of the Guillotine Reunite at Versailles 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z “I can’t think of another director who has managed to transpose better the Wagnerian spirit to our times,” Mr. Boadella said. From Street Theater to Wagner on the Opera Stage 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Self-taught, but encouraged and helped by Liszt, he did not fit easily into either the Wagnerian stream of Romanticism or the more conservative Brahmsian one. Raff: Symphonies Nos 1 ? 11; Suites 2010-07-29T21:50:00Z Together, they inaugurated the Evelyn Lear and Thomas Stewart Emerging Singers Programme in conjunction with the Wagner Society of Washington DC, set up to assist aspiring Wagnerian singers early in their careers. Evelyn Lear 2012-07-16T12:47:17Z Jacaranda's music director, Mark Alan Hilt, led the Jacaranda Chamber Orchestra, complete with Wagnerian brass and a battery of percussion, in a spirited rendition of Adams' sweeping symphonic satire. Jacaranda unleashes a tribute to composer John Adams that goes a little bit 'Berserk' 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Other Wagnerians make structure sound like something that’s inevitable, but with him this composer’s scores sound as if they are perpetually being created, discovered, revealed in transition. In a Wagnerian Whirlwind, One Conductor Breaks Through 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z He added: The site is Wagnerian – and so is Shaw's architecture Cragside in 1863, before Norman Shaw got his hands on the place. Palace of a modern magician to glow once more with his water-powered light 2013-03-15T17:00:00Z Rachel Nicholls can occasionally be shrill as Brünnhilde and one desperately hopes she will last the course of the Wagnerian vocal career that will assuredly now open up for her. Der Ring des Nibelungen - review 2013-06-24T10:32:45Z He is the second winner of the prize from the Birgit Nilsson Foundation, established after the 2005 death of Nilsson, one of the greatest Wagnerian sopranos. Italian maestro wins $1M Birgit Nilsson Prize 2011-03-16T10:43:08Z Simply ask them to be brief so the funeral isn’t Wagnerian in length. Aren’t You a Little Young for DMs? 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z But what surrounds the musicians, and how they move through it, tilts the performance, modestly but precisely, toward the Wagnerian ideal of Gesamtkunstwerk, in which the disparate arts and senses are synthesized into hypnotic harmony. Gabriel Kahane’s ‘The Ambassador,’ at Brooklyn Academy of Music 2014-12-11T05:00:00Z Great Wagnerian sopranos are few and far between. A Soprano Survived a Vocal Crisis. The Met Found Its Brünnhilde. 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z Having performed as a singer in a rock band in his youth, Hofmann went on to scale the heights of celebrity as a Wagnerian heroic tenor, appearing to immense acclaim at the Bayreuth festival. Peter Hofmann obituary 2010-12-02T18:44:00Z Nilsson is considered one of the greatest Wagnerian sopranos. Maestro Muti in Sweden to accept $1M music prize 2011-10-13T13:47:10Z Traditional Wagnerian performances tend to be rather silly spectacles, with lots of swords, cloaks and horned helmets. A spine-tingling and blissful infinity 2014-12-30T05:00:00Z Since its founding 16 years ago, Ensemble for the Romantic Century has aimed for salon-scale variations on the Wagnerian ideal of Gesamtkunstwerk, in which all the arts are melded into a cohesive unity. Review: Listening (Yes, Listening) to the Beauty of van Gogh 2017-08-17T04:00:00Z It’s the second year in a row that this devoted Wagnerian has withdrawn from performances there, after a spat — sorry, a “differing approach in various matters,” as he said — with Bayreuth’s music director, Christian Thielemann. Nelsons Turns Tanglewood Into Bayreuth-in-the-Berkshires 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z McCaw Hall’s enormous stage is disconcertingly empty on a Friday afternoon, though its spacious backstage is a wild dream of Wagnerian proportions. Light it up: The man behind the fire in Seattle Opera’s ‘Ring’ 2013-08-15T19:17:11Z Some conductors bring out the Wagnerian harmonic textures and dark orchestral colorings of the work. Music Review: Real Strangeness in Imaginary Kingdom 2010-12-19T19:20:50Z Every character in "Rebel" has a Wagnerian leitmotif. L.A. Phil plays 'Rebel,' 'Casablanca' and 'Waterfront' as the live-to-picture craze grows 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z A stronger Wagnerian education is hard to imagine, and at Longborough, Mr. Negus, 69, has finally found a place to use it. Review: ‘Tristan und Isolde’ Brings Thunder to the Longborough Festival 2015-06-17T04:00:00Z One is a grand space opera, with catchy Wagnerian leitmotifs and blaring immensity; the other is atonal and elusive, full of amorphous sound that rarely coalesces into melody. ‘Psycho’ and ‘Close Encounters’ Roll at the Philharmonic 2019-09-10T04:00:00Z Franck is usually dubbed a Wagnerian, and the symphony's structure, subjecting its thematic material to continuous development over three movements, owes much to Liszt. LPO/N?zet-S?guin ? review 2011-01-25T18:55:00Z Harvey's musical language proved equally adaptable to the dark, charged intensity of the Wagnerian menage, and the bright realm of the Buddhist myth. Jonathan Harvey obituary 2012-12-05T21:16:32Z Some Nazis continued their grandiose self-mythologizing even when the war was lost, viewing the destruction raining down around them as a Wagnerian “Twilight of the Gods.” It turns out ‘Raiders of the Lost Ark’ wasn’t so far off about the Nazis 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z The finale draws heavily on the huge political and social idea of liberty, and he created a vision that would later be called Wagnerian in its grandeur. A bite of William Tell 2011-07-15T22:55:03Z Visit Seattle Opera’s gift shop in McCaw Hall, where you’ll find lots of Wagnerian merchandise — some of it available online at seattleopera.org/shop . Countdown to Seattle Opera’s ‘Ring’: 10 ways to get ready 2013-07-18T21:50:22Z It is fair, I think, to award Mr. Fischer’s staging the Wagnerian laurel of “Gesamtkunstwerk,” or unified artwork, particularly since his conducting so closely harmonizes with his visual presentation. Finally, a Well-Staged ‘Don Giovanni’ in New York 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Some of the piece’s early motifs, gloomy yet seductive, could have emerged from Wagnerian woods. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z The moors are almost too wild, too dramatic, too naturally Wagnerian to handle, and pathetic fallacy needs to be avoided at every turn. Author, author: Joanna Briscoe 2011-07-08T21:55:25Z Van Aken, who learned only Thursday that he would be substituting for an ailing Simon O'Neill, showed promise of being a fine addition to the ranks of heldentenors, who specialize in the heaviest Wagnerian roles. Singers vs. director in La Scala 'Walkuere' 2010-12-12T11:01:00Z There was even a feisty performance, with six female singers wearing jeans and forest-green T-shirts, of the “Ride of the Valkyries” ensemble, against a dream-come-true Wagnerian backdrop: a real forest. Glimmerglass Creates Magic in Its Own Backyard 2021-08-15T04:00:00Z Singers still face limitations on their repertory for logistical reasons: A Wagnerian soprano might struggle with Baroque coloratura, and most Baroque specialists probably can’t project over a Wagnerian orchestra. Review: Philippe Jaroussky Breaks Away From Baroque Boundaries 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder, two of which were warm-up works for “Tristan,” were also performed, along with Berg’s Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano, written in 1913, music steeped in a Wagnerian ethos. Music Review: Leif Ove Andsnes’s Ojai Festival Riffs on ‘Tristan’ 2012-06-10T21:47:09Z Most modern medieval movies and TV series are unthinkable without that Wagnerian aspect. ‘A Stone in the Mosaic’: A Director Enters the House of Wagner 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z Braving All the Boos To Advance A Wagnerian Vision BAYREUTH, Germany IT is traditional for the director of a new production to appear during curtain calls on the night of the premiere. Katharina Wagner Envisions a New Bayreuth Festival 2010-08-13T17:37:00Z Yet as the sailor drifted to sleep, the conductor captured the ominous Wagnerian undertow in the orchestra. Review: Met Opera’s Next Music Director Captains a Blazing ‘Dutchman’ 2017-04-26T04:00:00Z Many opera buffs and singers would choose Norma as the hardest soprano role in the repertory, requiring agile coloratura technique, elegant bel canto lyricism, Wagnerian power for the soaring dramatic outbursts, stamina and more. Music Review: Angela Meade Takes on ?Norma? at Caramoor 2010-07-12T22:10:00Z Some of Wight’s historical revisions tested his friendship with Sinclair — like renaming him Siegfried, a German name with Wagnerian echoes that inevitably stirred thoughts of Nazis at the time. ‘All Creatures Great and Small’: Who Was the Real James Herriot? 2021-02-19T05:00:00Z The big Wagnerian repertoire, she said, “is not really in our financial ranges right now.” Opera parts ways with its music director 2017-06-21T04:00:00Z Though Pauline was a fan — informing Turgenev, who was not, “I am a Wagnerian to my fingertips, my poor friend!” How Modernity Came to Europe 2019-10-28T04:00:00Z Each of the three characters is associated with a melody or “formula,” much like a Wagnerian leitmotif. ‘Licht’ Unleashes a Helicopter String Quartet 2019-05-24T04:00:00Z 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 When called for, there was Wagnerian richness and impressionist fluidity in Mr. Rattle’s performance. Music Review: Real Strangeness in Imaginary Kingdom 2010-12-19T19:20:50Z Harris, who retired in 1982, was able to draw on his football experience when, early in his opera career, he was asked to shift from baritone to heldentenor, suited to Wagnerian roles. Feel Locked Out? Nothing to Tackle? Well, Try Opera 2011-03-16T01:25:13Z Even by Wagnerian standards it's been a long haul. BBC SSO/Runnicles – review 2013-04-12T18:43:18Z 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 Indeed, much of the texture and flavor of the work is distinctly Germanic, almost Wagnerian. NSO showcases Kennedy Center’s composer in residence, older American gems 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z They are also among the three best American Wagnerians today. Review | Wolf Trap offers a fine ‘Ring’ lite 2018-07-29T04:00:00Z Ms. Polaski was magnificent, singing with bright, sometimes steely yet always expressive colorings, abundant Wagnerian soprano power and great textural subtlety. Music Review: Pierre Boulez Conducts Met Orchestra at Carnegie 2010-05-17T22:00:00Z For the record, he employed the optional cymbal crash at the climax of the slow movement, but not the optional triangle; those yearning for the full Wagnerian effect might have gone home disappointed. Daniel Barenboim and the Music of Anton Bruckner 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z In that moment, the Wagnerian in Volle poked through, turning the humanity of Falstaff’s humbling into something sublime. Review: Verdi’s Falstaff Is Back at the Met, Enlarging His Kingdom 2023-03-13T04:00:00Z He instead focused on constructing the fanciful Neuschwanstein Castle just up the hill, decorated with themes of brave knights, fair maidens and scenes from Wagnerian operas. Cobbles and castles in the Bavarian Alps 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z On this night the soprano Deborah Polaski, 66, who has been a leading Wagnerian soprano, gave an overwhelming performance as the fatally ill prioress, singing with penetrating sound and dark colorings. Review: ‘Dialogues of the Carmelites,’ Under Will Crutchfield, Finds Beauty Anew 2015-07-27T04:00:00Z In the repertoire for women, this and Brünnhilde are the most difficult Wagnerian roles. ArtsBeat: Voigt Bows Out of ‘Tristan und Isolde’ in Washington 2013-09-09T18:19:08Z And though I am generally not dazzled by showy devices, whether helicopters or temperamental Wagnerian machines, I find myself strangely eager to see how this gorilla looks — and acts. The Shows I’m Afraid to Look Forward To 2018-09-14T04:00:00Z They kept the Wagnerian grandeur of the music, and when Bugs and Elmer start singing along with it, it’s absolutely side-splitting.” Wuvwy Music 2015-05-22T04:00:00Z He was also downright Wagnerian when he conducted his Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story” with the L.A. Gustavo Dudamel's Hollywood Bowl 'West Side Story' is a story for right now 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z They were enmeshed in a trans-Atlantic culture of musical debate about its form: programmatic or absolute, patriotic or universal, classicist or Wagnerian. Review: Douglas W. Shadle’s ‘Orchestrating the Nation’ 2015-12-28T05:00:00Z Appropriately, for this birthday year, there is a stentorian, Wagnerian choral setting of “Happy Birthday to You,” directed at Disney within the opera but perhaps also a wink from Mr. Glass. Music Review: ‘The Perfect American,’ by Philip Glass, at Teatro Real 2013-02-01T16:17:23Z Bruckner alternates moments of Schubertian grace with stretches of Wagnerian frenzy. Music Review: Honeck Steps In for Dudamel With Philharmonic 2014-03-28T21:28:42Z Marie is a beleaguered woman, whose despair over Wozzeck and their poverty drives her to succumb to a blustering Drum Major, here the Wagnerian tenor Simon O’Neill. Opera Review: Matthias Goerne Fills In as Lead at the Met 2014-03-07T22:34:23Z She probably would have entered Wagnerian terrain had she lived longer. Kathleen Ferrier and Her Centennial CD 2012-07-08T02:54:24Z His palace is wallpapered with misty medieval themes — brave knights, fair maidens and scenes from Wagnerian operas. A tale of two delightful castles, in Germany and Austria 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z And to hear Melchior and Flagstad in close to their peak vocal primes, with this kind of three-dimensional fidelity, is a gift no Wagnerian should be without. CD reviews: Two ways of looking at ‘Die Walküre’ 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z He is not a powerhouse Wagnerian, but his voice is muscular and deep and carries easily in the house. Volle Takes His Turn in ‘Die Meistersinger’ 2014-12-14T05:00:00Z Ben Heppner, the leading Wagnerian tenor of his generation, announced Thursday that he is retiring from singing. ArtsBeat: Ben Heppner to Retire From Singing 2014-04-24T16:59:41Z If the company pulls it off, it might be that Opera North's austerity Ring marks a paradigm shift in Wagnerian performance. Opera North tackles Wagner's Ring Cycle – minus the financial dramas 2012-06-12T16:15:28Z In a grand display of of female power, opera veteran Deborah Voigt brings Wagnerian grandeur to Episode 11 as the Queen of Sweden. They filmed the opera 'Vireo' on Alcatraz. Soon you can stream it on your iPad or phone 2017-05-10T04:00:00Z In what amounts to 15-plus hours of original music, he has composed a space opera on a Wagnerian scale — densely packed with iconic character themes and grand dramaturgy. John Williams on 'Force Awakens' score: 'I felt a renewed energy, and a vitality' 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z Wagnerian strands run through the music, even hints of motifs from “Tristan” and the so-called “Tristan” chord. Review: To a Rare King Arthur Opera, Bard Says ‘Welcome Back’ 2021-07-26T04:00:00Z Mr. Salonen sees Judith in the company of Wagnerian women who sacrifice themselves, like Brünnhilde. The Love Story Behind Bartok?s 7 Dark Doors 2011-03-11T15:34:03Z From there, Mr. Domingo deftly navigated new roles across diverse operatic styles, from Wagnerian weight to bel canto lightness. Plácido Domingo, Opera Superstar, Achieves the Unthinkable: 150 Roles 2018-08-22T04:00:00Z “Just as Herzl looked to ‘Tannhäuser’ to fortify his Zionist vision, Du Bois took Wagnerian myth as a model for a heroic new African-American spirit.” From George Eliot to Neo-Nazi Skinheads: The Chaotic Cult of Richard Wagner 2020-09-16T04:00:00Z So it is no surprise that Shaw's first staged drama – initially written in collaboration with Archer – should be a socialist polemic with a Wagnerian theme. Widowers' Houses – review 2013-06-21T17:07:00Z The music performed by the onstage band under the music direction of composer Stu Barker is accessibly modern and only occasionally scales Wagnerian peaks. Kneehigh's 'Tristan & Yseult' an alluring blend of myth, music 2015-02-03T05:00:00Z When the choreographer accidentally poked her in the posterior with a prop, she let out a Wagnerian whoop. Opera Star Tries Doin? What Comes Natur?lly 2011-07-14T22:16:30Z Such abstract touches paled compared to the Wagnerian choices of the original Broadway director, Terry Hands, then the highly regarded leader of the Royal Shakespeare Company in England. Arts & Leisure: ?Carrie,? a Huge Stage Flop, Is Reinvented by MCC Theater 2012-02-02T13:00:00Z Eva is an archetypal Wagnerian heroine – beautiful, desirable and entirely forgettable. A to Z of Wagner: E is for winsome heroines 2013-03-26T17:54:29Z His most audacious act is to rough up the middle-aged widow of the cop who killed himself, whom he believes to be on Lagana’s payroll — hardly a Wagnerian moment. DVD: ‘The Big Heat’ and ‘Walking Tall’ Are Out on DVD 2012-05-25T21:19:36Z At the height of the third-movement peroration, a door opened, and Ms. Kühmeier made her radiant way from the wings to center stage, as if she were about to unleash some Wagnerian outburst. Review: Valery Gergiev Galumphs Through Schubert 2017-04-06T04:00:00Z The leading roles call for voices of Wagnerian size and stamina. Schreker's opera 'Distant Sound' heard at Bard 2010-07-31T19:01:00Z “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 Over-the-counter models, whose sticks are often fiberglass, can weigh an ounce or more, which in the course of four Wagnerian hours can leave the hand aching. Richard Horowitz, Renowned Timpanist and Craftsman of Conductors’ Batons, Dies at 91 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z It's another big success and Wagnerian post-performance relief and elation drives some of us on a bit of a bar crawl. Tristan und Isolde in widescreen 2010-09-21T20:29:00Z Delius's opera, adapted from a short story by the Swiss novelist Gottfried Keller, is saturated with Wagnerian influence – it even ends with a Love-Death. A Village Romeo and Juliet/L'Arlesiana – review 2012-10-28T18:15:11Z He is played by Lee Majors, clad in Wagnerian fantasy gold armour, an inexplicable Lone Ranger mask and a fancy helmet with a dicky-bird on top. The Norseman: from bad to Norse 2013-07-04T15:27:57Z Or that a Florence and the Machine vibe, courtesy of producer Epworth, cloaks other tracks in overwrought Wagnerian drama. On U2's 'Songs of Innocence,' you get what you pay for (and more) 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z It’s more like a Wagnerian music-drama, a somber story built around intimations of doom and orchestrated with a soundtrack of pounding drums and high-pitched wailings and ululations. Perspective | ‘Dune’ has long divided the science fiction world. The new film won’t change that. 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z They are decay arias in some cases, spewing forth Wagnerian bombast. 'Exterminating Angel,' the most anticipated opera of the year, proves it's here to stay 2016-08-09T04:00:00Z "The feeling of Wagnerians towards her oscillates between holy veneration and calling for a witch hunt," says Die Welt's cultural commentator, Lucas Wiegelmann. The battle for?Bayreuth 2010-08-23T20:46:00Z But he also made conscious decisions to distance himself from the master: He tends to avoid characteristically Wagnerian dense orchestration and that composer’s shifting thickets of leitmotifs — bits of music representing characters or concepts. A King Arthur Rarity Is an Apt Way to Return to the Opera 2021-07-23T04:00:00Z What more could you want to bring in a new year of Wagnerian celebration? Tristan und Isolde – Wagner's love supreme 2012-12-20T18:00:01Z But in the range where Wagnerian heroines are made — above the stave — her tone could turn pinched and strained, her intonation a little wayward. Review: Heidi Melton Debuts With a Daunting Recital Program 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z Deep strings take us on a Wagnerian descent and we are back to the original blues theme, and the original declaration, “I read the news today, oh boy.” From the Archives: The Original Review of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band’ 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z He airily proposed that Bruckner had become “the dupe” of editors driven by “an all-consuming and very distorted Wagnerian perspective.” Still Searching For Bruckner?s True Intentions 2011-07-09T04:30:28Z In the beloved Largo, birdsong fluttered in the winds, basses walked a funereal march, and a handful of strings whispered the tender theme before a wash of Wagnerian trombones swelled. Played by Czech Philharmonic, 1890s Dvorak sounds fresh as ever There is something Wagnerian about all this, and not just in its expansiveness and the gravitas of its utterance. John Adams on Boulez, a Composer Worth Wrestling With 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z It is more Wagnerian in tone and length than most dramatic pieces but it indeed 'works' as theater. Review: ‘Phaedra(s)’ Goes Psycho With Isabelle Huppert 2016-09-15T04:00:00Z Even so, Ryan paced himself well enough to be able to duet honourably with Nina Stemme's Brünnhilde in the final scene, her radiant tone and glorious top register the stuff of Wagnerian vocal legend. Prom 18: Siegfried – review 2013-07-28T16:29:00Z On top of all the Bowl’s defiance of Wagnerian ambience, Dudamel offered next to nothing in the way of creating the sense of Wagner’s revolutionary music drama. The Bowl is no Bayreuth. And with Wagner in Dudamel's defiant hands, that's not a bad thing 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z When you listen to his earlier scores - both for Hitchcock and earlier such as Kane - you realise his Wagnerian impulses had been around for a while. Herrmann: Scoring the best 2012-08-04T00:16:46Z At times, when some plush Wagnerian orchestral burst dissolved into a misty passage, the playing lacked definition. Review: James Levine Conducts ‘Tannhäuser’ at the Met 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z The second is “What’s Opera, Doc?,” from 1957, which runs the familiar hunter-chases-wabbit plot through a Wagnerian blender to create a singular lampoon that all but convinced a generation of animators to surrender their pens. DVD: On DVD, ?Essential Bugs Bunny Collection? 2010-10-08T22:10:00Z The tension between his manner of death and the pro-German penchant suggested by his Wagnerian first name also runs through Magnard’s music. Review: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Spotlights Albéric Magnard 2015-10-28T04:00:00Z But is she up for Isolde, the final summit for a Wagnerian singer? Review: A Conductor and Soprano Test Wagnerian Waters 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Mr. Rihm’s score, while recognizably the music of a formidable atonal modernist, pulses with Wagnerian sweep, Straussian lushness and astringently alluring harmonic writing beholden to Berg yet somehow fresh. Music Review: Premiere of Wolfgang Rihm?s ?Dionysos? at Salzburg 2010-08-01T22:45:00Z He staged his own Götterdämmerung in his Berlin bunker as if it were a Wagnerian epic, even marrying Eva Braun the day before the two of them committed suicide. A to Z of Wagner: D is for death 2013-03-12T10:21:44Z Despite dismay at some stagings, and concern with a paucity of vocal quality even in this Wagnerian heartland, I came back enthused, electrified — evangelical, one might say. In a Wagnerian Whirlwind, One Conductor Breaks Through 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z “Happy Voices,” an unabashed orchestral showpiece, is decidedly Wagnerian, both in heft and in spirit. Critic’s Notebook: At Tanglewood a Focus on a Group of Composers 2012-08-14T21:47:03Z A lyric tenor of some vocal heft, Mr. Bergonzi lacked the sonic weight and brilliance of tenors in the Wagnerian mold. Carlo Bergonzi, Masterful Operatic Tenor, Dies at 90 2014-07-26T04:00:00Z 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 Photo: Tom Service/Guardian.co.uk And if you need to escape the Wagnerian juggernaut, you've no chance until Monday's concatenation of Britten, Shostakovich, and Naturally 7. Why the Proms Ring cycle is realising Wagner's true intent 2013-07-26T08:55:00Z 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 But in recent years, he has worked to establish himself as a skilled Wagnerian, too, starting with Lohengrin, an otherworldly knight who comes to the rescue of a virtuous duchess in medieval Brabant. A Tenor’s Secrets to ‘Lohengrin’: Golf and a Blunt Spouse 2023-03-16T04:00:00Z Opera North's concept commits the Wagnerian heresy of placing the orchestra in view. Opera North tackles Wagner's Ring Cycle – minus the financial dramas 2012-06-12T16:15:28Z There was a new Wotan in the Wagnerian firmament. A New Wotan Reigns in the Metropolitan Opera’s ‘Ring’ 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z 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 Yes, it's not fully mature Strauss and, yes, it wears its Wagnerian influence openly. Muti's 'arrivederci' for the CSO subscription season has audience clamoring for more 2011-05-13T17:51:23Z The soprano Christine Brewer sang splendidly, floating the soaring solo lines yet bringing some Wagnerian intensity even to hushed pianissimos. Music Review: ?Missa Solemnis? Ends New York Philharmonic Season 2010-06-24T21:09:00Z Photo: PR Richard Strauss's biggest and most Wagnerian opera may be a repertory piece in German-speaking countries but in Britain it's rarely performed. This week's new live music 2011-08-26T23:06:11Z The “Ring” also played a role in luring him to Seattle Opera, which is renowned for its productions of the four-part Wagnerian cycle. Seattle Opera’s new general director: Aidan Lang 2013-06-19T22:23:22Z Many of Franck’s students were adoring Wagnerians, but he was conflicted. What Happened to One of Classical Music’s Most Popular Pieces? 2022-03-18T04:00:00Z The more I stare at the image of the anguished woman, the more I see a long history of representations of apocalypse, the burning of Carthage or the Wagnerian fires that destroy Valhalla. Perspective | The photos of Greece on fire are shocking. But shock doesn’t always lead to change. 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z All this, in a genuinely Wagnerian spirit, is an effort to find a 21st-century meaning for the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk — the total work of art. Review: Bayreuth’s First American Director Arrives With ‘Lohengrin’ 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z She manages to avoid shrillness in what she aptly calls the “Wagnerian coloratura spectacle” that is her final “Exterminating Angel” aria, a flood of sustained superhigh sound up to F. At the Met Opera, a Note So High, It’s Never Been Sung Before 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z Hughes is surprised by the reaction he sometimes gets about his Wagnerian obsession. Wagner’s four-opera ‘Ring Cycle’ at Kennedy Center lures swarms of diehard ‘Ringers’ 2016-04-24T04:00:00Z 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 In Rheingold, in particular, the ensemble had ragged patches, and the 70-strong orchestra sometimes lacked the authentic weight of Wagnerian sound texture that makes Goodall's performances still live in the memory so many years later. Der Ring des Nibelungen - review 2013-06-24T10:32:45Z It is full of wonderfully teasing sounds, strangely tuned harmonies and moments of magical stillness, as though Abrahmsen was conjuring music of almost Wagnerian breadth and richness from the slenderest instrumental resources. Proms 27 & 28: Hall?/Elder; BCMG/Volkov 2010-08-07T12:03:00Z The Intermezzo from “Atzimba,” an opera by the 19th-century composer Ricardo Castro, had a Wagnerian flavor, with lush string passages and stirring climaxes. Music Review: Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas at Alice Tully 2010-05-12T21:31:00Z “La Mer” by Debussy came next, and Kirchner, who had studied with Schoenberg and had a Germanic orientation, brought weighty, Wagnerian intensity to this landmark score, completed in 1905. The Greatest 2011-01-21T14:04:41Z Would she be audible over the Wagnerian orchestra? Seattle Symphony's opening night was impressive. Where was the audience? 2023-09-22T04:00:00Z Even at such Wagnerian length, presidents rarely find time to examine the actual condition of the United States. Opinion | Please, Biden, do us all a favor: Skip the State of the Union speech 2023-02-05T05:00:00Z He offers in the first act a ritual — a solemn couple with Wagnerian slowness and certainty undress to prepare for a journey. Review: The 'Tristan Project' is back and more important than ever 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Any serious Wagnerian can find grumble material in the new production of “Tristan und Isolde” introduced by the Music Center Opera Sunday afternoon. Commentary: After six years away, Gustavo Dudamel returns to a changed Venezuela 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z Wagnerian opera is known for its lengthy dialogues and monologues where not much action takes place. Seattle Opera presents a gorgeous ‘Tristan and Isolde’ 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z A kind of Wagnerian musical instrumental flow creates an operatic suspension of disbelief like nothing else in modern cinema. Commentary: At 80, Peter Greenaway remains film's reigning musical maverick 2022-09-06T04:00:00Z But they were essentially just singers on stage, doing their usual Wagnerian business in following Dudamel and acting some. Review: With Yuval Sharon and Gustavo Dudamel at the helm, 'Valkyries' makes history again at the Bowl 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z Over 12 minutes of Wagnerian melodramatics, he repeated that guarantee no less that 30 times - but fans have long been confused about what it was he wouldn't do. Meat Loaf: What exactly is it that the singer would not do for love? 2022-01-21T05:00:00Z Elisabeth, true to her love to the end, has her revelation to which Jakubiak brought decided Wagnerian intensity and meaning, this time with emotions worth showing off. Review: L.A. Opera is back big time with 'Tannhäuser' 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z The unsung heroes of any Wagnerian opera are the orchestra players, who are grappling with that huge and glorious score for more than four and a half hours. Seattle Opera presents a gorgeous ‘Tristan and Isolde’ 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Though Calamaro has been mining this musical vein for awhile, he seems drawn to co-conspirators able to elevate his ambitions to an almost Wagnerian level. Argentine rocker Andrés Calamaro, both loved and loathed, is back again with some old and new friends 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z "Jim writes these very bombastic sort of Wagnerian kind of music," she said. Jim Steinman: Tributes paid to 'the Wagner of rock' 2021-04-21T04:00:00Z With its blood-red sky, it is a very Wagnerian shriek. Raw, brave, wild and honest: why Germany is Europe's greatest artistic nation 2021-01-19T05:00:00Z The worst Wagnerians can be a nasty bunch, as Hitler notoriously demonstrated. Please, can we all listen to some Brahms and learn to get along 2020-12-09T05:00:00Z Not all the audience possessed the stamina of the Wagnerian cast; there was a scattering of empty seats among the house when Act III began. Seattle Opera presents a gorgeous ‘Tristan and Isolde’ 2022-10-17T04:00:00Z Their respective defense ministries post gruesome footage on YouTube — complete with Wagnerian soundtracks — boasting of battlefield achievements. Around Nagorno-Karabakh, an all-out media war unfolds 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Never short of contradictions, Hollywood is a Wagnerian story in and of itself. Review: From the Nazis to RBG, how Richard Wagner changed the world 2020-09-28T04:00:00Z In recent decades, scholars have reconstructed a school of Wagnerian leftism, which gained purchase in Europe and America at the end of the 19th century. Richard and the revolutionaries: why did leftwingers love Wagner? 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z A performance artist who has collaborated with the Royal Opera House choir, she imagined Bank Job as Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk, or a total work of art. Big bang theory: how blowing up a Transit van wiped out £1m of debt 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z In the meantime, “War Fever,” like a lot of diversions available to us right now, is good enough, if no Ruthian home run or Wagnerian masterpiece. Review | In 1918, America cheered a ballplayer, shamed a musician and invented a war hero 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z There was something Wagnerian about it, I thought, bending forward and looking down at the water, which was black and full of small quivering ripples. Into the Black Forest With the Greatest Living Artist 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Hers revealed a confidence at the world’s end, which is its Wagnerian fate, and its potential of rebirth. Review: The wonder that is Zubin Mehta: Conductor turns Webern into Disney Hall enchantment 2020-01-12T05:00:00Z Flamboyant, charismatic, fond of silk dressing gowns, prone to scandalous affairs, Lassalle was more than a little Wagnerian himself. Richard and the revolutionaries: why did leftwingers love Wagner? 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z He gets a rich Wagnerian sound and he drums up big moments for maximum effect, always a plus in Wagnerian circles. Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen has a 'Ring' in the making. Orange County gets a sampling 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z For the next eight years, as Wagner completed his operatic cycle “The Ring of the Nibelung” and prepared for its première, Nietzsche served as a propagandist for the Wagnerian cause and as the Meister’s factotum. Nietzsche’s Eternal Return 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The Valkyries are an inheritance from Norse mythology, no doubt signal-boosted by the cliché of the Wagnerian soprano wearing horns. Opinion | What Does It Mean to ‘Look Like Me’? 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Too big of Wagnerian blast would have further spoiled Le Gateau’s wonderful antics. Commentary: For Putin-backed conductor Valery Gergiev, boos and cheers at Bayreuth and Salzburg 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z By the late 1920s, loyal leftist Wagnerians were crying out in alarm. Richard and the revolutionaries: why did leftwingers love Wagner? 2020-09-17T04:00:00Z Those peculiar Wagnerian tubas tell you about strangeness as much as Stravinsky’s music did. Review: Esa-Pekka Salonen has a 'Ring' in the making. Orange County gets a sampling 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z Before the moon landing, movie music for space travel mostly dealt in fantasy as well, whether with Wagnerian bombast or ghostly theremin. Hollywood Bowl concert goes to outer space, from '2001' to 'First Man' 2019-08-15T04:00:00Z Alfred Walker brought a rugged Wagnerian sound to the Ruler, suggesting that agony lay behind the character’s imperious poses. Erich Wolfgang Korngold, the Opera Composer Who Went Hollywood 2019-08-12T04:00:00Z Inevitably, one of his subsequent shows—he created about two hundred in his lifetime, mostly as a freelance curator—focussed on the Wagnerian ideal of the Gesamtkunstwerk, the supposedly total art work. Harald Szeemann’s Revolutionary Curating 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Whereas a lyric soprano might become a Wagnerian over time, a countertenor, because of physiology and the limited music available, often sings the same roles throughout his career. A Millennial Countertenor’s Pop-Star Appeal 2019-07-15T04:00:00Z Only 32, Davidsen is being hailed as the next great Wagnerian soprano because of her clarion, multi-colored voice with its seemingly unlimited capacity to soar over heavy orchestration. Review: Soprano Lise Davidsen shines on solo debut 2019-05-29T04:00:00Z The name Gesaffelstein is a portmanteau combining Albert Einstein with the Wagnerian term Gesamtkunstwerk, which can be loosely translated as “total art work.” Gesaffelstein’s Dance Music Punctures the Coachella Bubble 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z And with a year for the opera to sink in, conductor Grant Gershon creates a Wagnerian arc, leading to a devastating sense of purpose by the end. Review: ‘Girls of the Golden West’ gets an Amsterdam remake, more powerful and profound 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z But for all her Wagnerian and Brucknerian grandeur, she sidestepped grandiosity. Is Strauss’ ‘Zarathustra’ sexist? L.A. Phil and Colburn play it two ways 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Theo Adama, 92, a German opera singer whose varied career spanned the second half of the last century and who made a particularly strong impression internationally with his Wagnerian roles, died Thursday in Dresden, Germany. This week’s passages 2019-01-17T05:00:00Z Instead of a sitcom that tidily wraps things up in tidy half-hour, these games are full-length Wagnerian operas, complete with plot twists, shocking reversals and meaty roles for even the minor characters. Operatic struggle offers chess on a grand scale 2018-10-23T04:00:00Z We tend to describe such immensities of scale as Wagnerian, but that would be an insult to Meyerbeer’s originality. The Dark, Prophetic Vision of Giacomo Meyerbeer 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z The hiring of Kosky and Sharon is a welcome corrective to an oppressive past: Wagner was a vicious anti-Semite, Hitler an ardent Wagnerian. Wagner On Trial at the Bayreuth Festival 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z This may have been no place to appreciate the Wagnerian intricacy and magnificence of some of Adams’ most astonishing orchestral writing. Review: With 'Doctor Atomic,' Santa Fe stages a nuclear tale as the opera of our time 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z He is, of course, the most unlikely of Wagnerians. Unorthodox L.A. opera genius Yuval Sharon arrives on the world stage 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z He dubbed these changes ‘the ring cycle’, in tribute to the Wagnerian operas he enjoyed on rare outings from the Rockefeller campus. Günter Blobel (1936–2018) 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z A conservative with a penchant for bomb-throwing who has been lampooned by a Georgia reporter for delivering “Wagnerian” pronouncements, he began with what he called his “Georgia Tech hearing.” The Takedown of Title IX 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z Was it their lust for deregulation, lower taxes and a Wagnerian end to the Obama era? Opinion | It’s too late to disavow Trump 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z At the more elaborate rallies, Wagnerian electric flame throwers dramatically cap her closing vows to “renew the ties of national solidarity.” As French Election Nears, Le Pen Targets Voters Her Party Once Repelled 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z But what the die-hard Wagnerians at Bayreuth could not possibly have understood is exactly the kind of essential Wagnerian Sharon happens to be. Unorthodox L.A. opera genius Yuval Sharon arrives on the world stage 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z The Night is equipped with a Mopar exhaust, and its Wagnerian engine note will announce to the neighborhood — and perhaps the next one over — that someone just bought a new truck. Video Review: A Pickup Truck That’s Both Primal and Pampering 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z This was a great role for Fisher – a supporting character, yes, modestly conceived and proportioned in comparison to the Wagnerian greatness of Star Wars, but thoroughly beguiling. The loss of Carrie Fisher is felt by all who love Hollywood, warmth and wit 2016-12-27T05:00:00Z Add godlike abilities, superhuman adversaries, existential crises and actual gods, and you’ve got a proper Wagnerian opera on the boil. Review: 'Final Fantasy XV' Is Shockingly Excellent 2016-11-28T05:00:00Z Musical offerings around town playing off Mr. Trump’s candidacy include a Wagnerian opera, a violin concerto and another opera that echoes Hillary Clinton’s bitter battle with Mr. Trump. New York Theater Artists’ Latest Muse: Donald Trump 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z For Sharon, the teeming 21st century multicultural city had all the qualities of a vast Gesamtkunstwerk stage, just the place to undertake a modern day Wagnerian experiment, so he stayed and founded the Industry. Unorthodox L.A. opera genius Yuval Sharon arrives on the world stage 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z At times, the whimsy proliferates to excess, crowding out Wagnerian politics and psychology. A Weekend of Wagner 2016-10-10T04:00:00Z And now the Wagnerian climax was complete, with a doomed protagonist to lend some weird poignancy to the drama. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 32 – The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor-Roper (1947) 2016-09-05T04:00:00Z In 1974, he returned to the U.S. to become resident stage director of Seattle Opera under Ross, working first as assistant to the noted director George London in staging the company’s very first Wagnerian “Ring.” Lincoln Clark, Seattle Opera stage director, dies at 90 2016-04-26T04:00:00Z Crowd-control techniques borrowed from theme parks get tourists flowing through a complex designed not by architects, but by theatrical set designers who shared Ludwig's obsession with Wagnerian opera and medieval knights. Has Germany lost its Wanderlust? - BBC News 2016-04-16T04:00:00Z Now and again he would rise abruptly, spin about, and play a thunderous Wagnerian chord with his behind. What’s in a Name at Yosemite? 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Most viewers go on only one route; in theory, you could see all three in succession, but it would be an all too Wagnerian experience. Creating an Opera as Big as Los Angeles 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z Rachmaninoff was buried here, in a town with a distinctly Wagnerian name, about 25 miles outside New York City, after his death 72 years ago. Family Balks at Talk by Russia to Move Rachmaninoff’s Remains 2015-09-06T04:00:00Z After one of the toughest months of her chancellorship, Mrs Merkel chose to unwind - by watching a five-hour performance of the Wagnerian opera Tristan and Isolde. Does Merkel retain a stranglehold on power? - BBC News 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z While American soap operas tend to be Wagnerian in ambition - hence 'opera' - British soap operas lean towards detergent. England cricket is like EastEnders 2015-03-19T04:00:00Z "Beer was a national cause... Look at the enormous beer halls, especially Munich: those architects were inspired by Wagnerian dreams of Nordic heroes, of epic sagas." One people, 1,200 sausages 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z And, yes, there’s a little bit of the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk,” Sharon went on, wincing at the word, which drops clunkily into so many discussions of unconventional theatre. Creating an Opera as Big as Los Angeles 2015-11-16T05:00:00Z But after this Wagnerian week in the Bronx, my father would have seen two somewhat contradictory lessons. Yankee Hatred Is Losing Its Point 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z "About the 'Yes' campaign, there's been tremendous zest and youth... but I've also been struck by the Wagnerian gloom of the Scottish Labour party." Heart vs head? Role of passion in referendum 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z A European publishing executive likened it to a Wagnerian dragon. Google Is Target of European Backlash on U.S. Tech Dominance 2014-09-08T04:00:00Z A good analogy is the overture of an opera by Wagner, for like a Wagnerian performance, the Casa Batllo is a total work of art that absorbs and consumes you. Why Gaudí's birthday deserves its Google doodle celebration 2013-06-25T11:34:50Z Outside, a man sat with his back to Oscar, facing a watercolour of a Bavarian castle against the backdrop of an idyllic Wagnerian landscape. A time for peace 2013-05-29T17:21:03.883Z Although, one event is called, in English: "T'was in the merry month of May that Richard Wagner hatched one day," which one feels doesn't quite get the full Wagnerian tone. The myth of the humourless German 2013-05-25T23:09:50Z Suddenly the arena was turned into a place of belching smoke-stacks, satanic mills and oppressed workers toiling away like Wagnerian Nibelungen. Olympics opening ceremony: the theatre review 2012-07-27T23:10:20Z Evil on the grand Wagnerian scale, yes, but people still read it because it’s about beautifully drawn characters making very specific choices that draw them further and further into the fray. Room for magic: A conversation with Lyndsay Faye 2012-06-28T13:45:00.213Z But, though he helped Wagner to his later ideas and style, he had nothing whatever to do with the Wagnerian music-drama or the Wagnerian attitude toward art. Franz Liszt 2012-05-22T15:16:50.923Z He will then get the satisfaction of having produced an apparatus which is fit to accompany a thoroughly Wagnerian opera. The inventions, researches and writings of Nikola Tesla With special reference to his work in polyphase currents and high potential lighting 2012-03-28T02:00:22.660Z Traditional Wagnerians were naturally incensed and Wieland had created an exciting new trend. Beastly Bestiality? It Must Be the Latest New Opera 2012-03-20T09:50:00Z How often she begged him to write another opera of the same Wagnerian calibre he has not failed to tell us. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z The third act brought him back under the Wagnerian yoke. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z Puccini is thus, at his best, a Wagnerian in the truest sense—a far more consistent Wagnerian than was Wagner himself. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z All the Wagnerian works, many of Verdi's, and most of the French have taken their places in comparatively recent years, and yet there is still a demand for all the old operas too. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z It has, however, been reserved for Alfred Bruneau to employ the Wagnerian plan in a more complete way than any French composer has yet done. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z Pictures, sculpture, tone, acting, poetry, and the rest are to be found in the Wagnerian music-drama; but the very titles are significant—a hybrid art is there. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z This plea he presents with no vagueness or Wagnerian sentimentality, but with an alarming precision of outline. John Woolman's Journal 2011-09-06T02:00:09.260Z There is not a hint of the Wagnerian arioso. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z There are passages that recall the "Flying Dutchman," and Leoncavallo adopts the Wagnerian method of handling his themes; in other words, each one has a meaning that is adhered to throughout the opera. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z Herein consists the great difference that separates his works from those that are conceived after Wagnerian ideas. Masters of French Music 2011-09-14T02:00:49.960Z Report said that he had given up his important post by reason of representations made to him on the subject of his excessive devotion to Wagnerian music. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 2011-05-20T02:00:28.363Z The key to the Wagnerian theory is found, also, in Schopenhauer's philosophy. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z They are all-26- tarred, in a great or small degree, with the Wagnerian stick. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z She is equally successful in colorature and dramatic r�les; but her physique and voice are particularly fitted to the mythical Wagnerian characters. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z Had you not better," he writes to the editor in sending the Bayreuth article, "submit my Festival to some expert musician of Wagnerian mind, that he may add a few technicalities at appropriate places? John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir 2011-04-18T02:00:10.453Z Many members of the Tacon orchestra, one of the best in existence, are full-blooded negroes, and, with their co-operation, not only Italian, but Wagnerian opera, is successfully performed. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z The music is in a curious jumble of styles: sometimes Italian, sometimes pseudo-modern French, with occasional attempts at Wagnerian imitations—Missa's constant use of intentional consecutive fifths becomes very wearing after a time. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Baughan, an English critic of authority, who has written with both courage and wisdom concerning Wagnerian theories and practices, entertains singular views concerning the nature of music-drama as an art form. Aspects of Modern Opera Estimates and Inquiries 2011-12-12T03:00:24.900Z Its soprano r�le is well beloved by all Wagnerian singers, but for some reason the work is seldom given in this country. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z In the Wagnerian opera the finale has no place. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" 2011-03-14T03:01:00.580Z He has always operated on a Wagnerian scale, and there's little doubt he feels qualified to lead the U.S. through what he awkwardly calls "a crossroads that we cannot hide from." Something Old, Something Newt 2011-03-10T07:30:00Z We named her Senta, because she fell in love with your picture, Boris, quite like the Wagnerian enthusiast with the picture of the Flying Dutchman. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z Fiennes shows the artist – the ambition of whose Gestamptkunstwerk is almost Wagnerian, from tottering concrete towers to sepulchral, subterranean corridors dug out of the bowels of the earth – making his art. British film industry will not fund women, say female directors 2010-05-16T21:55:00Z It needs a very great mind to grasp and portray these Wagnerian creations. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z She remembered once that the husband of a friend of hers had caught her in his arms in the anteroom of a box at the opera during the darkness of a Wagnerian performance. Manslaughter The qualities displayed by the composer, however, were amply recognized, although the music was stated, by some critics, to exhibit traces of Wagnerian influence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" In the Kermesse Scene Wagner should have commenced one of his own Wagnerian strains, in the Wagnerian style, and been immediately stopped by the student's applause. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, June 28 1890 His Wagnerian r�les have been especially distinctive since the start. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists Fancy a Wagnerian having a wife who prefers the 'Casino Girl' to 'Lohengrin'! Her Royal Highness Woman For statistics is a new thing which has had to fight as desperately for recognition as Impressionist art or Wagnerian opera. The Book of This and That It sufficed for a work to be at all out of the common for the epithet “Wagnerian” to be applied to it. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" The year 1868 brought forth another great exponent of Wagnerian characters to whom has been accorded by many good critics a very high rank among dramatic sopranos. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday Furthermore, I can sing the long, difficult Wagnerian r�les, with their tremendous demands upon the vocal organs, without the least sensation of fatigue. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists From without came the hum of insects, a hum so insistent, so enervating, and yet so Wagnerian in intensity that you would have said a nation of them celebrating a feast of love. A Transient Guest and Other Episodes I often look for the grand line, the dignity, the flowing, noble breadth of gesture one saw in the older Wagnerian singers, but how often does one see it now? Confessions of an Opera Singer In "Tower of Ivory" Mrs. Atherton says that all Wagnerian singers must pay heavily. Interpreters The fact is that they learned the art of vocalization, while many who have come before the public as Wagnerian singers have been practically ignorant of the first principles of voice production. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday Of course, my whole training was that of the opera singer, and I was schooled principally in the Wagnerian r�les. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists Its legendary subject recalls both Parsifal and Tristan, and the music is also suggestive of Wagnerian influence. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" Wagnerian opera is a poetical and musical idealization of speech. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things Carry's physique is Wagnerian, and she is just the woman to look after her children herself. Ancestors A Novel Nevertheless, the performance formed a golden epoch in the history of Wagnerian art. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday I learned some of them first in Swedish, then in Italian, then in French, then in German, then in English; as I am obliged to re-learn my Wagnerian r�les now. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists The end of the representation of the conversion of the Lycian peasants into frogs is prophetically and ridiculously Wagnerian in its ingenious expansion of rhythm and eminently expert orchestration. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 5 "Dinard" to "Dodsworth" Cornelius’s music is Wagnerian in aim, but I did not carry away with me a single bar of all I heard. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things Yes, when the bad Wagnerians dared to attack the tottering Mendelssohn-Schuman instrumental mechanics, Germans as well as others were induced to withdraw from the society which it had cost them so much struggle to join. Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians Of recent years his successes have been chiefly in Wagnerian r�les. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday This I did, and it fell to me to receive that most coveted of Wagnerian distinctions, "soloist at Beyreuth," the citadel of the highest in German operatic art. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists Look around among the married women you know; all of them Wagnerians! The German Classics, v. 20 Masterpieces of German Literature After all, this is perhaps the aim of Wagnerian music. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things His Wagnerian cloak is a world too large for his trifling themes. Ivory Apes and Peacocks Max Alvary also was well known in the United States as a Wagnerian singer. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday Most of the great Wagnerian singers have been proficient in coloratura r�les before they undertook the more complicated parts of the great master at Beyreuth. Great Singers on the Art of Singing Educational Conferences with Foremost Artists The story of some Wagnerian singers at the Court Opera of Blankenstadt. His Lordship's Leopard A Truthful Narration of Some Impossible Facts And while I do all this I try to make out the orchestration of the uproar as my friend would some tremendous Wagnerian clangour. An Ocean Tramp I noted that wherever a situation analogous to one in the Wagnerian music-drama presented itself the music of the protean younger Richard was coloured by memories of the elder composer. Ivory Apes and Peacocks She was a native of Hungary, and began her career in Italian opera, though she was best known as a Wagnerian singer. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday He stood there like a 137hero in some Wagnerian opera, where men take the part of gods, and as she gazed the mockery went out of her song and she sang of love alone. Silver and Gold A Story of Luck and Love in a Western Mining Camp It was merely a building superimposed upon a skyscraper, but in the dark there was no skyscraper, and the amazing structure hung there lambent, silent, enigmatic, a Wagnerian temple in the sky. Westward with the Prince of Wales She did not notice that she was being followed; when she turned homeward she faced Herr Albert, the famous Wagnerian tenor. Melomaniacs Why, then, does he lean so heavily on Wagner, not alone on his themes—for Strauss is, above all, a melodist—but on his moods; in a word, the Wagnerian atmosphere? Ivory Apes and Peacocks Like all the greatest Wagnerian singers, her reputation was made in work of a very different nature. Famous Singers of To-day and Yesterday Levi, the Wagnerian Kappelmeister, journeyed from Munich to Friedrichsruh to beg the honor of owning, as a souvenir, one of Bismarck’s old hats. Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck It will thus be seen that, with the exception of Mascagni, Wagnerian ideas have been paid tribute to by all the leading opera composers of the day. War Letters of a Public-School Boy What an interesting name, Mrs. Siegfried Brazier, widow of the famous Wagnerian tenor. Melomaniacs I should hardly have been surprised if the swans floating like great lilies on the shining lake had all begun to sing some wonderful Wagnerian song in chorus. The Lightning Conductor Discovers America Meyerbeer put into practice the Wagnerian theories, which may have been one reason, aside from the constitutional artistic reasons, why Wagner hated him. Operas Every Child Should Know Descriptions of the Text and Music of Some of the Most Famous Masterpieces The star players and singers do not usually appear at these popular performances, and the Wagnerian Ring has, as far as I know, never yet been given. Home Life in Germany It was warm by the fifteenth, but on that day, in the hours of early dawn, we were awakened by a Wagnerian overture in the steam radiators. The Van Dwellers A Strenuous Quest for a Home One would not lose more by dropping out of literature the Idylls of the King than the Wagnerian romances. The Wagnerian Romances It is to this Simple Rhyme what stage scenery is to the Shakespearian play or the Wagnerian opera. Negro Folk Rhymes Wise and Otherwise: With a Study It was, for the most part, vague and elusive; but there were times when it rang exultingly through the subtly harmonious din, reminding him of Wagnerian music. The Cattle-Baron's Daughter A short time before he had gone to Bayreuth to hear the Wagnerian operas, and now in the capital of Bavaria he attended the theater of the Residence, where the Mozart festival was celebrated. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan Lord knows a typewriter is no Wagnerian orchestra and should be warranted to banish sentiment.… Black Oxen He is the only lover of this type in the Wagnerian assortment, and, it happens, the only one who fails. The Wagnerian Romances And as to Wagnerian leitmotif, I fear I lack the necessary culinary understanding for it. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Certainly Strauss is neither Wagnerian nor academical, and certain it is, that his new work is interesting enough, to necessitate its admission in the Standard Operaglass. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas Almost all later music, and much of the earlier, sounds Wagnerian. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The great opera of Brother Pratt's spirit went on like a rude Wagnerian measure until none could resist it. A Circuit Rider's Wife But his wife had conceived a great dislike for the Wagnerian check costume that had won for her the Woggle-Bug's admiration. The Woggle-Bug Book Expressiveness at all costs, which is what the Wagnerian ideal—the ideal of decadence—demands, is hardly compatible with talent. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. I used to think, when we were engaged, that she was like Brunhilde, or some of the other Wagnerian heroines. The Making of a Soul The duet, "In Tyrol," has a wonderful crystal carillon and a quaint shepherd piping a faint reminiscence of the Wagnerian school of shepherds. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions We visited the State Theatre, where Wagnerian opera still holds the patient ear, and there we heard, not Wagner, but Shakespeare's "Lear," done in a jog-trot, uninspired, later-Victorian style. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 Then, when he had picked up his hat, which was utterly ruined, and found his cane, which had flown across the street, his mahogany charmer in the Wagnerian Plaids had disappeared from view. The Woggle-Bug Book With it one bids farewell to the damp north and to all the fog of the Wagnerian ideal. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Dr. Peace played it at the opening of Mr. White's organ at Balruddery and stated that he found the fine string tones it contained of peculiar value for Wagnerian orchestral effects. The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments In Mendelssohn's "Œdipus in Kolonos," however, the music expresses emotion rather than German emotion, and abounds in splendors of harmony that are strikingly Wagnerian—in advance. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions It is conducted by the Wagnerian Armbruster, who, with his Merry Men, is hidden away under the stage, much as was the Ghost of Hamlet's father whom Hamlet irreverently styled "Old Truepenny." Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 21, 1893 It was at this time that the differences in character began to cause domestic infelicity in the Wagnerian household. Woman's Work in Music This holding-of-its-breath in Wagnerian pathos, this disinclination to have done with an intense feeling, this terrifying habit of dwelling on a situation in which every instant almost chokes one.—— The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Nietzsche came and heard the Wagnerian music and was caught as flotsam in its whirling eddies. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians Here, as in his symphonic overture to Scott's "Marmion," Buck has adopted the Wagnerian idea of the leit-motif as a vivid means of distinguishing musically the various characters and their varying emotions. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions The great feature of the third quarter of the century was the conception and execution of the Wagnerian music-drama, with its wealth of sense incitation and its somber appeal to accumulated experiences of the race. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present The devotion of the new helpmate to the Wagnerian cause has survived the master's death by many years, and is still witnessed by the musical world. Woman's Work in Music When a musician can no longer count up to three, he becomes “dramatic,” he becomes “Wagnerian”.… The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. The play flows with a laughing, joyous, rippling quality that disarmed the critics and they apologized for what they had said about Wagnerian motives. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians While the orchestration is scholarly and mellow, it is not in the least Wagnerian, either in manipulation or in lusciousness. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions You may notice just here what the Wagnerians are pleased to call the Master's "second" manner. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques She dates it from the time when Nietzsche, under the guise of Wagnerian propaganda, began to expound himself. A Preface to Politics The “Flying Dutchman” preaches the sublime doctrine that woman can moor the most erratic soul, or to put it into Wagnerian terms “save” him. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Recently a young woman who started her vocal career as a contralto has sung the most difficult of Wagnerian soprano parts. Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing By the musical critic of the New York Tribune, author of "Studies in the Wagnerian Drama," "How to Listen to Music," etc. Some Forerunners of Italian Opera The Germans sing with enthusiastic spirit and most of them with Wagnerian effect, hearty and robust in their chorus singing, a loud tone quality is their aim. Sixty Years of California Song There is a considerable amount of vocal wreckage strewn along the way, the result of wrestling with Wagnerian recitative. The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing That other orchestration which is all the rage at present—the Wagnerian—is brutal, artificial and “unsophisticated” withal, hence its appeal to all the three senses of the modern soul at once. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms. Wagnerian singers, for instance, who employ trumpet-like notes in certain passages are often seen shaping their lips like the mouthpiece of a trumpet, with a somewhat square opening, the lips protruding. Caruso and Tetrazzini on the Art of Singing They attend lectures on the Wagnerian music drama. The Patient Observer And His Friends The songs of Schubert, Schumann, Franz, Brahms, Grieg, Strauss, and Wolf, as well as the Wagnerian drama, are significant in their inseparable union of text and music. Resonance in Singing and Speaking Wagnerian singers are, as a rule, vocally shorter lived than those that confine themselves to French and Italian opera. The Head Voice and Other Problems Practical Talks on Singing If he did not go outside the range of Arnold, G. Brown, Stradella, Vasco, the Postillion and Lionel, it was probably because he felt that he was not equal to interpreting the Wagnerian spirit. How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] This series of six chords, which occur in some of the Wagnerian stuff; effect, a combined feeling of godlike isolation and despair. Hunter Patrol Although extremely Wagnerian in its harmonies, it is one of those numbers which even Wagner's enemies admire. Chopin and Other Musical Essays With her superbly rich, deep-toned voice and her splendid vocal and dramatic control she thrilled her audiences in her Wagnerian rôles, in Beethoven's "Fidelio," and in all she attempted, whether in opera or concert. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music Despite the criticisms that have been heaped upon Frau Wagner for assuming to set herself up as the great conservator of Wagnerian traditions, it is significant that when, some years later, Mme. The Loves of Great Composers For two people may love music, yet be widely removed from all agreement if one be a Wagnerian, and the other of an older school. The Mystic Will A Method of Developing and Strengthening the Faculties of the Mind, through the Awakened Will, by a Simple, Scientific Process Possible to Any Person of Ordinary Intelligence Author of "Studies in the Wagnerian Drama," "Notes on the Cultivation of Choral Music," "The Philharmonic Society of New York," etc. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art You sound like one of those detestable Wagnerian operas—-all full of blood oaths, and absurd quests to dubious ends. The Mantooth An admirable actress and extremely versatile, she has been successful in Mozart's operas, and has won high renown in her Wagnerian rôles. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music Then Mirèio, in a sudden outburst, like a Wagnerian heroine, confesses her love to the astonished boy, who remains dazed, and believes for a time that she is cruelly trifling with him. Frédéric Mistral Poet and Leader in Provence It is not out of place to remark that Brock loathed the Wagnerian opera; he was of "The Mikado" cult. The Husbands of Edith There is little symphonic development in the Wagnerian sense. Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score The Wagnerian ideal is, before everything else, an ideal of power. Musicians of To-Day When will orchestra conductors get tired of presenting the three or four Wagnerian works they repeat ad nauseum, when they can be heard at the Opéra under better conditions, and Schubert’s insignificant Unfinished Symphony. Musical Memories This is the first of the genuine Wagner dramas, the first, therefore, from which the Wagnerians have drawn, or into which they have read, "lessons." Richard Wagner Composer of Operas The action is often interrupted by solos and duets of a type which approaches the conventional, though for the most part the opera follows the Wagnerian system. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. He follows Wagner to the extent of using the inescapable device of representative themes, though he has, with his usual airy inconsistency, characterized the Wagnerian Leitmotiv system as "rather coarse." Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande A Guide to the Opera with Musical Examples from the Score And this former art—our own—is not so much a reaction against Wagnerian art as a reaction against its caricatures in France and the consequent abuse of an ill-regulated power. Musicians of To-Day The Wagnerian of a generation ago could sneer at the professionalism of Mozart; but the professionalism of Wagner seemed to him to be inspiration made constant and certain by a new musical invention. Essays on Art There is, of course, no "significance" in the sense in which the word is used by the Wagnerians. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas He uses guiding themes with more freedom than in 'Samson et Dalila,' but the general outline of 'Henry VIII.' is certainly not Wagnerian in type. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. "Oh! a little Wagnerian," Warcolier replied, repeating what he had heard. His Excellency the Minister Is the Wagnerian drama perfectly adapted to German genius? Musicians of To-Day Besides, in the Wagnerian music-drama, it is intended that beauty of idea and of arrangement of ideas shall be as of great importance as beauty of ornament. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians That bridal procession and chorus are, of course, supremely beautiful music: music and spectacle were aimed at and achieved, not music and drama, in the later Wagnerian sense. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas In 'Ingwelde' Schillings followed the Wagnerian tradition almost too faithfully, but 'Moloch' is a work of very distinct individuality. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. If no one turned up, he would act the part himself, and, it being Wagnerian music, the orchestra would play what of the part had to be played. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 9, 1892 His music is practically unknown in France, though he wrote two well-known operas, Fauler Hans and Wem die Krone? and was the first composer, according to Strauss, to introduce Wagnerian methods into the Lied. Musicians of To-Day In all these years, however, he cherished the plan of producing a trilogy in the Wagnerian manner with a groundwork from Florentine history. The Standard Operas (12th edition) Their Plots, Their Music, and Their Composers Frau KLAFSKY, a beautiful and interesting Br�nnhilde; and it is difficult to be personally interesting in a Wagnerian Opera, where ensemble is everything. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892 A distinctive feature of the work is the absence of Wagnerian influence. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. In a small village where the inhabitants have no chance at diversions like Wagnerian operas and collapsing skyscrapers I felt that I had no right to avert the spectacle of Aunt Augusta's disciplining Henrietta. The Tinder-Box Enthusiast though he was for Wagner's work, he had declared openly that it was time for musicians to free themselves from the Wagnerian Musik-Drama. Musicians of To-Day The orchestra, under the direction of Herr MAHLER, takes no notice of them, but goes on Wagnerianly, inexorably. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, July 2, 1892 Before he was a Wagnerian he was the curator of a museum, and Owen remembered how desirous he was to learn the difference between Dresden and Chelsea china. Sister Teresa The Wagnerians object to the set form of his works, and the reactionaries condemn the prominence which he often gives to the declamatory and symphonic portions of his score. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. In spite of its strong Wagnerian leanings, the music bears the impress of MacDowell's own style, and it has moments of rare loveliness. Edward MacDowell He seems to have an undecided mind, and to combine sadness and irony with weakness and impatience, to be a Viennese musician striving after Wagnerian grandeur. Musicians of To-Day Nietzsche, after his change of sides, tells us not to take this part too seriously: "what I fancied I heard in the Wagnerian music has nothing to do with Wagner." Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Natural scenery is as the orchestra to a Wagnerian opera. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 5 He had been about to tell her why he had recanted his Wagnerian faith when they had been interrupted by Owen.... Evelyn Innes The very semblance of whole motives seems to be taken from the warp and woof of Wagnerian drama. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies These writers not only discussed musical subjects, but judged painting, literature, and philosophy, from a Wagnerian point of view. Musicians of To-Day William has a very marked predilection for Wagnerian music, and is the life and soul of the "Potsdam-Berlin Wagner Society," which is one of the most influential social institutions of the Prussian capital. The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe: William II, Germany; Francis Joseph, Austria-Hungary, Volume I. (of 2) "Which do you consider the most melodious Wagnerian opera?" asked Mrs. Cumrox. Toaster's Handbook Jokes, Stories, and Quotations He had purchased the Wagnerian Review; it had led him to Mr. Innes's concerts, and he was already interested in the prospect of reviving the early music and its instruments. Evelyn Innes The answer, perfect in its timid halting descent, exquisite in accent and in the changing hues of its periods, is robbed of true effect by its direct reflection of Wagnerian ecstasies. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies But, as a matter of fact, these lyric dramas were by no means free from foreign influences, and especially from Wagnerian influences. Musicians of To-Day Gregory poured into the gap like a great cascade, and we had a discourse on the origins of the Wagnerian librettos. The Silent Isle Every springtime she, as spectator, would watch him directing Wagnerian choruses in the "Mystic Abyss" at Bayreuth. The Torrent Entre Naranjos She was a rather tall and strongly-built girl, but the Wagnerian bosom was wanting. Evelyn Innes We have merely to compare this artificial manner with the poetic reaches of Brahms to understand the insolence of extreme Wagnerians and the indignation of a Hanslick. Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies Belgian by birth and temperament, and French in feeling and by musical education, he had remained outside the Wagnerian movement in his own serene and fecund solitude. Musicians of To-Day Only relatives, or creditors, ever ring in that Wagnerian manner. The Importance of Being Earnest In large measure the Metropolitan is a show-case for rich fashionables who are not trained in Wagnerian music and have no reverence for it, but who like to promote art and show their clothes. What Is Man? and Other Essays Before I heard much Wagnerian music I heard enthusiastic descriptions of it from a mistress I didn't like at school. Ann Veronica, a modern love story Cleopatra did not cry out when suddenly we came in sight of Hathor's temple, honey-gold against the turquoise sky, and vast as some Wagnerian palace of the gods. It Happened in Egypt The Wagnerian battle was still going on at that time, as the notice printed at the head of the programme of Tristan shows. Musicians of To-Day And while the too insistent band paused between one murdered Wagnerian fragment and another, they continued a conversation which seemed to amuse them both. Delia Blanchflower In obedience to a wild, Wagnerian snort from the orchestra, I came into the arena with my skates in hand. Remarks Not in the false form of Wagnerian declamation. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House It was apparent in the reluctance with which—if not the works of Wagner which are beyond discussion—every new work inspired by the Wagnerian spirit was accepted. Jean-Christophe, Volume I One finds here and there in Wolf's music Wagnerian forms, just as elsewhere there are evident reminiscences of Berlioz. Musicians of To-Day Of the influence of the Elizabethan drama upon the Wagnerian drama it is difficult to speak to any good purpose. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama Finally she got through, the piano sounded a wild Wagnerian bang, and the cow danseuse ambled off. Remarks He felt the easy fluency of the opera, the production of an effect with the minimum of trouble, the indolent renunciation of the sturdy effort shown in the vigorous Wagnerian structures. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House And he had no pleasure in hearing one of his works sandwiched—together with a worthless imitation by a Wagnerian student—between two enormous blocks of Wagnerian drama. Jean-Christophe, Volume I It would be still possible even for the devoutest Wagnerian disciple to hear such a concert, perhaps, without leaving the hall in indignation, perhaps even without a protest. From the Easy Chair — Volume 01 The danger of spiritual self- will forms indeed one of those recurring themes which pervade her letters like the motifs of Wagnerian music—ever the same, yet woven into ever- new harmonies. Letters of Catherine Benincasa They, however, thought of it rather as a revival of the manner of the ancient Greek tragedy, which was, in a sense, a crude form of Wagnerian recitation, with musical accompaniment. The Love Affairs of Great Musicians, Volume 1 It was not the Wagnerian sickliness, sentimental and clumsy, like a girl from the Rhine provinces. Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House The Wagnerians at once credited him with a grotesque jealousy of their God. Jean-Christophe, Volume I It was from the southward that there came rolling up to us the sounds of a bellowing chorus of gunfire—a Wagnerian chorus, truly. Paths of Glory Impressions of War Written at and Near the Front It contains eight "leading motives," which recur thirty times in course of the opera; and the dramatic recitatives are sometimes quite in the "Wagnerian" manner. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents And no Wagnerian crashes of orchestration mitigate the tragedy of the scene as our eyes are opened to the twilight of our new gods. The Glands Regulating Personality In the vaster reaches and sweeps of the rhythm of prose there is a massive music as of Wagnerian orchestras. Without Prejudice The Wagnerian pedants, not content with proscribing every new melodrama, busied themselves with dressing up the old melodramas and operas. Jean-Christophe, Volume I Gay roundelays, swift, passionate Hungarian dances, bold Wagnerian strains followed in quick succession, and the more utter her abandon the more certainly she felt the younger man respond. The Silver Horde But what is far more remarkable is that at the close of their careers, so different otherwise, these two great composers met again--in their music, Verdi as a Wagnerian convert. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 14 The New Era; A Supplementary Volume, by Recent Writers, as Set Forth in the Preface and Table of Contents The German Contingent made the Wagnerian list inevitable, just as Mme. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Liszt wrote to him, and promised to go to Strasburg with a Wagnerian coterie to act as a guard of honor for the composer. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music This Fraulein Soest is a good, excellent girl, who was sent by her parents to England, and was there taken with home-sickness for the "Weymar school," "the music of the future," and the "Wagnerian opera." Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2 The latter part, a panegyric on the Wagnerian drama, is of little importance. From Ritual to Romance The duet had now taken on quite a Wagnerian effect. The Intrusion of Jimmy Herr Reichmann was known to American pilgrims to the Wagnerian Mecca as the admired representative of Amfortas in "Parsifal," but his impersonation of the Dutchman was equally famous in Vienna and the German capitals. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time If there was no such future, was the fact not proof of the failure of the Wagnerian movement as a creative force? A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music She couldn't be so utterly heart-broken if she was able to practise deep breathing and concentration—Wealth, Friendship, Art—a pretty comprehensive repertoire—and to prate on Cosmic Realities and the Wagnerian feeling! Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life Of late years the conductors, of the Wagnerian school more particularly, have acted on the belief that the symphonic minuets of Mozart and Haydn must be played with the stately slowness of the old dance. Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words The nymph, finding herself observed, does not, like another Diana, cause the death of her admirer, but discloses herself to be a veritable Wagnerian Venus. A Second Book of Operas Mr. Hertz placed "Tiefland" on the stage and added to his long Wagnerian record the first performance heard in America of an unabridged "Meistersinger." Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time The ethical idea of the drama, as I set forth in a book entitled "Studies in the Wagnerian Drama" many years ago, is that it is the enlightenment which comes through pity which brings salvation. A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music I can feel the cold spray as I paint and the sense of power and rest in the elemental forces—an almost Wagnerian feeling of great Cosmic Realities.' Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life Through its pages treaded a stately procession of Kings and Queens—Wagnerian heroes and heroines: Shakespearian creations, melodious in verse; and countless others. Peg O' My Heart Structurally, his score rests on the Wagnerian method, in that the vocal part floats on an uninterrupted instrumental current. A Second Book of Operas The finales of "Falstaff" have been built up with all of Verdi's oldtime skill, and sometimes sound like Mozart rubbed through the Wagnerian sieve. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time At all events, the financial arrangements which followed upon the discovery of the MS. and the price demanded for it by the Wagnerian housemaid convinces me absolutely of its authenticity. Bluebeard; a musical fantasy "Listen," whispers the Wagnerian enthusiast to me, "the cornet has now the Brunnhilda motive." Idle Ideas in 1905 In Cypher's she belonged—in the bacon smoke, the cabbage perfume, the grand, Wagnerian chorus of hurled ironstone china and rattling casters. The Four Million The best that has been done in the Wagnerian line belongs to Humperdinck. A Second Book of Operas He had sung and played Tristan and opened a new era in the style of Wagnerian performances in New York. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time No nation need have much difficulty in producing a race of Wagnerian singers. The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring A lady of my acquaintance says that sitting out a Wagnerian opera seems to her like listening to a singer accompanied by four orchestras playing different tunes at the same time. Idle Ideas in 1905 Mr. Graves was an ardent Wagnerian, and especially devoted to The Mastersingers of Nuremberg. Mother In my book, "Studies in the Wagnerian Drama," I have analyzed Wagner's comedy from many points of view, and printed besides the results of investigations of the old Nuremberg mastersingers made on the spot. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time As such things are done at Bayreuth and in the best theaters of Germany the preparations were inadequate, but the results achieved set many old visitors to the Wagnerian Mecca in amaze. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time In either case "the Folk," on whose behalf Wagner turned out in 1849, are effectually excluded; and the Festival Playhouse must therefore be classed as infinitely less Wagnerian in its character than Hampton Court Palace. The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring "The second violins," continues the Wagnerian enthusiast, "are carrying on the Wotan theme." Idle Ideas in 1905 Jenny Van Zandt headed companies which exploited as varied and dignified repertories as those of the German companies at the Metropolitan Opera House, barring the Wagnerian list. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time He achieved that purpose in the season of 1895-96, and set an example that will long be memorable in the annals of the Wagnerian drama in America. Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time When, at the height of her Wagnerian career, she sang at a performance for her own benefit, she chose "Norma." Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time The two Wagnerian novelties, "Götterdämmerung" and "Siegfried," were the most popular features of the season, the former being given seven times, though it was the last of the season's productions. 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