Wagner Opera Moments

/ 2024 / … Klaus Tennstedt conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra in orchestral highlights of Richard Wagner, recorded live in Tokyo in 1988. Tannhauser Overture and Venusberg music Rienzi Overture Gotterdammerung Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey and Siegfried’s Funeral March Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg Act 1 Prelude Die Walkure Ride of the Valkyries… … …… Continue reading Wagner Opera Moments

Solti Navigating Wagner: Siegfried Funeral Music & Tannhauser Overture

/ 2009 / … Götterdämmerung – Solti – VPO Video showing Vienna Horns in F and Wagner Tuben, they are correctly called Wagner TUBEN (TUBE singular) (as in TUBES) and not TUBAS actually. Time and the need for a translation has changed that to tubas, just so you know (doubting Thomas’s please look in the… Continue reading Solti Navigating Wagner: Siegfried Funeral Music & Tannhauser Overture

The Story Of Richard Wagner 

/ 2024 / … #TCM#ClassicTV#wagnerThe Story Of Richard Wagner | Mini Series | Full Drama Movie | Free Movie | Retro Central Free Movies Richard Burton dazzles as ”Wagner’’ in a lavish production with a formidable cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Ralph Richardson. Wagner was an obsessive gambler, drinker and womanizer, it… Continue reading The Story Of Richard Wagner 

Jonas Kaufmann In Fernem Land…

Lohengrin: Jonas Kaufmann, Elsa von Brabant: Anette Dasch, Ortrud: Evelyn Herlitzius, Heinrich der Vogler: René Pape Orchestra and Choir of Teatro Alla Scala conducted by Daniel Barenboim Director: Claus Guth Operngala mit Jonas Kaufmann – Richard Wagner, Pietro Mascagni, Giacomo Puccini – Andris Nelsons Operngala mit Jonas Kaufmann – Richard Wagner, Pietro Mascagni, Giacomo Puccini… Continue reading Jonas Kaufmann In Fernem Land…

100 Jahre Bayreuther Festspiele

100 Years of the Bayreuth Festival (1976, complete program). Under the title “Artwork of the Future – Today: 100 Years of the Bayreuth Festival,” 3sat broadcast a one-hour television documentary in 1976, featuring, among other things, Bernd Weikl as Amfortas in Richard Wagner’s “Parsifal.”