
Despite Stefan Herheim’s concept and staging for this 2013 Salzburg Festival Die Meistersinger, which is sometimes confounding and in many ways too fantastical, viewers/listeners won’t
This “find”, a BBC recording of a live 1961 performance at Covent Garden of Georg Solti conducting what is now his first recorded Walküre (the
This is the production that got side-tracked three years ago when it was discovered that the singer to star in the opera, Evgeny Nitikin, had
This ten-disc set is billed as containing “20th Century Classics,”
There is nothing wrong with Henk de Vlieger’s arrangement of
This hodge-podge collection gathers together Rafael Kubelik’s Sony recordings: symphonies
This stunning recording has been hailed from the start as
Just about half of this recital devoted to German soprano Anne Schwanewilms singing Wagner is purely orchestral—good, but not major performances of the Overture and
Since Wieland Wagner’s “revolution” in staging, it is nearly impossible to watch a performance of Parsifal, unless it is done literally, following Wagner’s stage directions,
It’s always interesting to hear a composer conduct his own