I’m reading a book. Yes, it’s about Wagner. No, I don’t read books about any other composers. Yes, I’m enjoying it. Of the books I’ve read on the topic of Wagner, this one is by far the most ...

If, like me, you prefer your opera recordings to be heard and not seen, make an exception for this DVD of Peter Sellars’s remarkably lucid staging of John Adams’s Nixon in China. A work which, as ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. "Wagner Masterworks" will showcase concert performances from some of opera's most ...

It feels as though every summer I get into Wagner. It could be because news of the Bayreuth Festival is always there to remind me. It could be because I rarely get a chance to hear Wagner’s music ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. It's a love that has only recently developed after years of performing 'standard' ...

So many decent recordings of Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No.1 have appeared in recent years, and here’s another. James Ehnes was given superb support from Kirill Karabits and the Bournemouth ...

Richard Wagner , Overtures and Interludes, Philharmonia Zurich, Fabio Luisi (conductor), Philharmonia Rec The whole thing doesn’t even begin to compare to the lackluster, indifferent conductor I’ve ...

The capacity to combine the arts — music, theater, stunning visual effects, dance — is one of opera’s great attractions. But along with encouraging an interdisciplinary vision, opera thrives on ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — Israel’s public classical music station was criticized for playing a live recording of an act from a Richard Wagner Opera. The Kol HaMusica station on Friday broadcast the third act ...

It can be interesting to hear a performance one has attended on CD. Often the result is better than the memory... if the performance (or rather the memory of it) was so-so. Often – but not as often – ...