tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10998624988235409472024-02-07T10:17:21.467+01:00Wagner OperaWagneropera.net's blog on Richard Wagner.Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-62362668809219153512021-07-01T13:50:00.001+02:002021-07-01T13:50:00.213+02:00The Wagner Society Zoom Events July 2021The Wagner Society Zoom Events July 2021• 7th July: Richard Jones in conversation with Christopher Cook• 14th July: The Met Database, with Jeffery McMillanEvents cost £5 to all members (including all non-UK Wagner Societies), £10 fornon-members (refundable on joining) and free for students/under 30s.Please book here: https://wagnersociety.orgPer-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-73748340547737936552021-06-01T13:49:00.001+02:002021-06-01T13:49:00.166+02:00 The Wagner Society Zoom Events June 2021The Wagner Society Zoom Events June 2021• 2nd June: Hans Richter, with Christopher Fifield (part 1)• 9th June: Hans Richter, with Christopher Fifield (part 2)• 16th June: Wagner's Italianism, Bellini's Norma, and melody's Sinnlichkeit, with DrDavid Trippett• 23rd June: Professor Emma Sutton, topic tbc• 25th June: James Rutherford in conversation with Christopher CookEvents cost £5 to all members Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-21667577251958821582021-05-03T13:48:00.001+02:002021-05-03T13:48:19.481+02:00The Wagner Society Zoom Events May 2021The Wagner Society Zoom Events May 2021• 5th May: “The Sea, music and death”: Wagner and Virginia Woolf with Dr JamieMcGregor (prt 3/ 4)• 7th May: Frida Leider, with Eva Rieger• 12th May: Roger Neill, topic tbc• 14th May: From Goodall to Longborough, with Anthony Negus• 19th May: Dr Mark Berry, topic tbc• 21st May: Wagner in Buenos Aires, with Eduardo Bennaroch• 26th May: “Nothung up my sleeve”: Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-66150008429196562442021-03-31T13:47:00.001+02:002021-03-31T13:47:02.658+02:00The Wagner Society Zoom Events April 2021The Wagner Society Zoom Events April 2021• 2nd April: “Parsifalmania for Good Friday”, with Jeffery McMillan• 7th April: "Two Rings Revisited: Wagner and J.R.R. Tolkien" with Dr JamieMcGregor (prt 1/ 4 of Wagner and Literature)• 9th April: Lotte Lehmann (as singer), with Gary Hickling• 10th April: Sir Mark Elder CH CBE in conversation with Christopher Cook• 14th April: "Hört ich oft von Engeln Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-13844078248766195272021-03-17T18:57:00.003+01:002021-03-17T18:57:27.214+01:00The March 2021 issue of The Wagner Journal The March 2021 issue (vol.15, no.1) of The Wagner Journal has been published and contains the following feature articles: • ‘Dream Work: The Inner World of Die Meistersinger‘ by Paula M. Bortnichak and Edward A. Bortnichak• ‘A Postscript to “A Breath of Sorrow“ ‘ by Eva Rieger• ’The Incest Motif in Wagner‘ by Otto Rank. Translated by Anthony Negus, introduced and edited by Christopher Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-62560607992774313562021-03-01T13:46:00.001+01:002021-03-01T13:46:00.994+01:00The Wagner Society Zoom Events March 2021The Wagner Society Zoom Events March 2021• 3rd March: “Choosing the Jews” with Stephen Brown (prt 6/7)• 5th March: Andrew Shore in conversation with Christopher Cook• 10th March: "The spectre of success: Wagner, Mendelssohn and anti-Semitism in19th-century music" with Dr Barbara Eichner• 12th March: "The flowing stream from wire-less to video” with Stephen Brown (prt 7/7)• 17th March: Robert Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-14404768499044040352021-01-29T13:45:00.001+01:002021-01-29T13:45:01.975+01:00The Wagner Society Zoom Events February 2021The Wagner Society Zoom Events February 2021• 1st February: Ann Murray DBE in conversation with Stephen Brown• 2nd February: Lise Davidsen in conversation with Christopher Cook• 3rd February: “Bingo” with Stephen Brown (prt 4/ 7)• 6th February: Grace Bumbry in conversation with Christopher Cook• 10th February: “TE Lawrence and Wagner” with Susan Vincent• 12th February: Reminisces of Lohengrin at Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-59903519559238809412021-01-18T13:45:00.000+01:002021-01-18T13:45:17.149+01:00The Wagner Society Zoom Events January 2021The Wagner Society Zoom Events January 2021• 19th Jan: Sir Willard White in conversation with Christopher Cook• 20th January: “The new ‘Gurl’” with Stephen Brown (prt 3/7 of “Wagner at the Metfrom 1901-present”)• 22nd January: Nadine Secunde in conversation with Stephen Brown• 24th January: Doris Soffel in conversation with Christopher Cook• 27th January: Ben Heppner in conversation with Stephen Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-25960059968516172382020-07-08T20:56:00.000+02:002020-07-08T20:56:11.301+02:00The Wagner Journal, July 2020 IssueThe July 2020 issue (vol.14, no.2) of The Wagner Journal has been published and contains the following feature articles:
‘The Use of Eastern Concepts in Wagner’s Stage Works‘ by Peter Bassett
‘Wagner and the Ottomans‘ by Emre Aracı
’Gender, Japan and the Takarazuka Revue‘s 1968 Tristan und Isolde’ by Brooke McCorkle Okazaki
plus reviews of: TristanPer-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-18026629472275428552020-04-02T07:26:00.005+02:002020-04-02T07:26:43.967+02:00Herheim Walküre at Deutsche OperStefan Herheim's production of Die Walküre premieres 27 September 2020.Conductor Donald RunniclesDirector + set designs Stefan HerheimCo set designs Silke Bauer
Siegmund Brandon JovanovichHunding Tobias KehrerWotan John LundgrenSieglinde Lise DavidsenFricka Annika SchlichtBrünnhilde Nina StemmePer-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-65818299859771489752020-03-08T15:40:00.002+01:002020-03-08T15:40:37.776+01:00International Women's Day Today is International Women's Day - Congratulations, all women!
Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-68500402796864214142020-02-05T15:16:00.000+01:002020-02-05T15:35:15.789+01:00Queries that brought visitors to Wagneropera.net
What you searched for in 2019 I do not know, but I do know what you searched for before you landed on Wagneropera.net. These queries brought most vistors to Wagneropera.net in 2019:
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wagner ring cycle Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-33711509949081693062019-11-11T20:26:00.000+01:002019-11-11T20:26:19.207+01:00The Wagner Journal: November 2019 Issue
The November 2019 issue (vol.13, no.3) of The Wagner Journal has been published and contains the following feature articles:
• ‘Knappertsbusch in Bayreuth’ by Hans Rudolf Vaget
• ‘In Wagner’s Eyes: Casting Light on a Disputed Portrait‘ by Michael Trimble, Dale C. Hesdorffer, Robert Letellier and Gordon Plant
•’Ernest Newman in ‘’Naziland‘’: In Search of OttoPer-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-68797863391588519502019-10-16T18:35:00.000+02:002019-10-16T18:56:30.701+02:00Tarnhelm Opera Rheingold
150 years after the Munich premiere of Das Rheingold, a newly formed company, Tarnhelm Opera is bringing a unique production of the work to cathedrals and large churches in the West of England and South Wales. The performances are staged, in costume and sung in German with English surtitles.
The performances make full use of the substantial organ in each of the venues, supplemented by Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-76592994263692373992019-07-05T15:51:00.002+02:002019-07-05T15:51:26.514+02:00The Wagner Journal - July 2019 Issue
The July 2019 issue (vol.13, no.2) of The Wagner Journal has been published and contains the following feature articles:
• Es klang so alt, und war doch so neu. Wagner's Greatest Myth: Musical Historicism in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
• In ein fernes Land: The Politics of Translation in Wagner‘s Arrangement of Gluck‘s Iphigénie en Aulide
• Das, was eigentlich Musik: RichardPer-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-39434331952384722772019-03-22T10:05:00.002+01:002019-03-22T10:10:37.227+01:00The Herheim Ring at Deutsche Oper Berlin Starting in June 2020
Stefan Herheim. Photo: Per-Erik Skramstad
Deutsche Oper Berlin has announced that Stefan Herheim will stage a new Ring
starting in 2020 with Donald Runnicles conducting. The cast will
include Derek Welton as Wotan and Markus Brück as Alberich. Other cast
members include Annika Schlicht, Flurina Stucki, Judit Kutasi, Thomas
Blondelle, and Tobias Kehrer as Fricka, Freia, Erda, Loge, and Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-85027037835772666002019-03-04T07:14:00.002+01:002019-03-04T07:14:15.927+01:00The Wagner Journal - March 2019 Issue
The March 2019 issue (vol.13, no.1) of The Wagner Journal has been published and contains the following feature articles:
‘ ‘’Accompanied by Solemn Songs‘‘: Wagner’s Ring as it might have been‘ by Arnold Whittall
‘Redeeming Senta‘ by Edward A. Bortnichak and Paula M. Bortnichak
‘Ludwig Revisited‘ by Joseph Horowitz
‘Being Isolde: the Theory and Practice of Anna Bahr-Mildenburg‘ by Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-51499605295784096292018-11-08T09:24:00.000+01:002018-11-08T09:24:55.220+01:00The Wagner Journal - November 2018 issue
Front cover illustration: The 20-year-old Alma Schindler-Mahler, photograph, 1900
The November 2018 issue (vol.12, no.3) of The Wagner Journal presents papers from the ‘Wagner 1900‘ conference held in April 2018 at Jesus College, Oxford, and contains the following feature articles:
‘Manifestations of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna‘ by Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-73650205675632392482018-10-08T09:17:00.001+02:002018-10-08T10:00:02.299+02:00MY PARSIFAL CONDUCTOR, A Wagnerian Comedy
Musical genius Richard Wagner (Eddie Korbich) and his devoted wife Cosima (Claire Brownell) find themselves in a moral, political and musical dilemma when King Ludwig of Bavaria (Carlo Bosticco) insists that the son of a rabbi, Hermann Levi (Geoffrey Cantor), conduct the premiere of Wagner’s sacred final opera, Parsifal. In this comedic spin on real-life events, Maestro Levi must Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-39726705363591955442018-07-27T12:10:00.004+02:002018-07-27T12:10:28.292+02:00The Wagner Journal July 2018
The Wagner Journal (vol. 12, no. 2), contains the following feature articles: • ‘Kierkegaard, Wagner and the Quest for Operatic Immediacy‘ by Leo Cabranes-Grant• ‘Setting the Record Straight: Wendelin Weißheimer and the Wagners‘ by Katherine Syer• ‘Wagner and Proust‘ by Jeffrey Swann•‘From Death in Venice to The Magic Mountain: Thomas Mann‘s Ironic Response to Wagner‘ by William Kindermanplus Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-39502755954312934652018-07-26T12:17:00.000+02:002018-07-27T12:24:34.288+02:00Yuval Sharon's Lohengrin on 3SAT Saturday 28 July 2018
Photo: Enrico Nawrath / Bayreuther Festspiele
Yuval Sharon's Lohengrin on 3SAT Saturday 28 July 2018 at 20:15: If you have access to the German TV channel 3SAT, you can watch the new Lohengrin production by director Yuval Sharon
Bayreuther Festspiele 2018: Lohengrin
Elsa Anja Harteros
Lohengrin Piotr Beczala
König Heinrich Georg Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-34419667259603886932018-03-10T09:35:00.000+01:002018-03-10T09:35:27.593+01:00The Wagner Journal March 2018
The March 2018 issue of the Wagner Journal (vol.12, no.1) contains the following feature articles:
‘Kindred Spirits of Meiningen and Bayreuth‘ by Edward A. Bortnichak and Paula M. Bortnichak
‘Turning the Telescope Round‘ [article about Ernest Newman] by David Cormack
‘Wagner and the Boryspil Pogrom: A Reply to Barry Emslie‘ by Derek Hughes
“Music Made Visible“: Sergei Eisenstein's Die Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-87700814199297654302017-11-04T11:24:00.000+01:002017-11-04T11:27:08.023+01:00The November 2017 Wagner Journal is out
The November 2017 Wagner Journal (vol.11, no.3) is out. It contains the following feature articles:
'Mahler's Parsifal' by Anna Stoll Knecht
'The Volk That Wagner Loved to Hate: A Reply to Derek Hughes' by Barry Emslie
'Mariano Fortuny and His Wagnerian Designs' by Wendy Ligon Smith
Plus reviews of:
Barrie Kosky's Die Meistersinger and Uwe Eric Laufenberg's Parsifal at Bayreuth, Dietrich WPer-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-40685195989797646402017-07-05T15:00:00.002+02:002017-07-05T15:00:28.801+02:00'Freud and Parsifal' issue of the Wagner Journal is out
The July 2017 Wagner Journal (vol.11, no.2) is now out. It is a special 'Freud and Parsifal' issue containing the following feature articles:
'Parsifal as Castration Drama' by Ivan Ward
'Wagner, Freud and Nietzsche in Berlin' by Tom DeRose
'Wagner's Parsifal: a Hymn of Purity' by Stephen Gee
'Kundry's Kiss and the Fear of Female Desire: a Gender Perspective' by Eva Rieger
'Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1099862498823540947.post-38737210281062004162017-03-05T10:08:00.002+01:002017-03-05T10:11:39.898+01:00The Wagner Journal - March 2017 issue
As The Wagner Journal enters its second decade, we are pleased to announce the March 2017 issue (vol.11, no.1), which contains the following articles:
'Wagner: Race, Nationalism and Other Distractions' by Derek Hughes
'Teleology, Providence and the ‘Death of God’: a New Perspective on the Ring Cycle’s Debt to G.W.F. Hegel' by Richard H. Bell
'All in it Together: the Gesamtkunstwerk Revisited'Per-Erik Skramstadhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10573740979505279503noreply@blogger.com0