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Walküre . October 28th 2007, Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Production: Keith Warner. Cast: Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Plácido Domin...

I suppose I ought to be more familiar with Korngold ´s music, so I wouldn’t have had to risk neck injury to look at my neighbor’s programme ...

Rhinegold . October 26th 2007. Cycle 3. Production: Keith Warner. Cast: Sir John Tomlinson (Wotan), Peter Sidhorn (Alberich), Gerhard Siegel...

A wonderful Sibelius Recital disc with the superb Finnish bass Kim Borg (1919-2000) recorded by Deutsche Grammophon in 1958-60 was relea...

My translation below of excerpts of an interview with Plácido Domingo in the latest edition of the German magazine Opernwelt (Albrecht Thiem...

Walküre. October 19th 2007, Royal Opera House Covent Garden. Production: Keith Warner. Cast: Eva-Maria Westbroek (Sieglinde), Plácido Domin...

For American tenor Robert Dean Smith , it all ended in the living room of Hans Sachs in the third act of the premiere of Claus Guth´s Meiste...

Wolfgang Wagner ´s 1989 Bayreuth Festival staging of Parsifal will be revived next year in Seoul, Korea overseen by his daughter Katharina. ...

Peter Emmerich, spokesperson of the Bayreuth Festival in front of boxes and boxes with ticket applications for the 2008 Bayreuth Festival...