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Sunday, March 22, 2026

TRISTAN UND ISOLDE at the MET

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Tristan und Isolde might be Richard Wagner 's greatest work for the stage. A work inspired by the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer an...
Sunday, September 28, 2025

ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER - “¡Viva la revolución!”

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  Mikhail Bakhtin , the great Russian literary critic, wrote that the novel as a literary genre is a series of carnivalesque episodes; essen...
Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Twenty-two Wagner Years Ago

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I can't believe that WagnerOperas.com is twenty-two years old. Not to sound cliché about it, but it only seems like yesterday when I dec...
Monday, August 04, 2025

A New and Improved Wagnerians Page

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 I spent this weekend updating the Wagnerians page of the Wagneroperas site. Click here to go to the page, and take a listen to the new a...
Sunday, August 03, 2025

Bayreuth: The New Meistersinger Misses the Mark

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  I imagine that after a notorious Meistersinger production by Katharina Wagner that brought to mind the dark days of National Socialism; ...
Saturday, June 21, 2025

Sunset Blvd. The Musical on Broadway

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 In Jamie Lloyd' s minimal staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber 's Sunset Blvd ., based on Billy Wilder 's film noir, so much is left ...
Sunday, January 05, 2025

A New AIDA at the MET

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 At a time when the popular sentiment seems to be to return plundered antiquities to the country from which they came; and as more and more ...
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Vincent Vargas is a retired foreign language and film history teacher from New York City. He runs websites dedicated to Casablanca (www.vincasa.com) and Richard Wagner (www.wagneroperas.com).
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