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Monday, July 30, 2007

The Abduction of Opera

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No doubt as a response to Katharina Wagner 's new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at Bayreuth , this article called "...
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Thursday, July 26, 2007

A New Meistersinger at Bayreuth

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With expectations high as Katharina Wagner , the composer's great grand-daughter, directs her first opera in the house that Richard Wagn...
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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

The Kirov Ring: Götterdämmerung

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I missed The Kirov Opera 's Siegfried , but you bet that I was there for Götterdämmerung , the final music drama of Richard Wagner ...
Friday, July 20, 2007

Jerry Hadley Dies

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After the death of Beverly Sills and Regine Crespin this month, tenor Jerry Hadley now dies after a self-inflicted head wound. Here is a...
Thursday, July 19, 2007

Getting Ready for Harry Potter 7

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As of today, the latest and final Harry Potter book, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows has been leaked, in real and fake versions, in nu...
Sunday, July 15, 2007

The Kirov Ring: Die Walküre

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Saturday evening brought the second night of The Kirov Opera Ring to The Metropolitan Opera with a performance of Die Walküre . Several g...
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Saturday, July 14, 2007

The Kirov Ring: Das Rheingold

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On the same weekend that Russian president Vladimir Putin suspended his country's involvement in the "Conventional Forces in Europ...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007

Tenor Jerry Hadley near Death

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This is from today's New York Times . Operatic Tenor is Brain Damaged By Daniel J. Wakin Jerry Hadley , a major American operatic teno...
Thursday, July 05, 2007

A new Walküre at Aix-en-Provence

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A new production of Die Walküre is now playing at the new Grand Théâtre de Provence , a 1,350 seat new opera house that will house the yea...
Wednesday, July 04, 2007

Bored Nazis at Bayreuth

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The myth goes that the Nazis were great lovers of the music of Richard Wagner . When you see the Bayreuth Festspielhaus filled with member...
Tuesday, July 03, 2007

Beverly Sills dies at 78

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Soprano Beverly Sills died of cancer in New York on Monday. She was "the" opera diva when I started going to performances, and w...
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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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