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Ragnarok: The End of the Gods by AS Byatt – review

4591 days ago
Guardian MusicAS Byatt's contribution to Canongate's series on myths and legends takes the Norse apocalypse Ragnarok and triumphantly forges it anewStories begin when characters set out on their travels and end when they arrive at a destination or return wearily h... more info

'Opera has never been more alive' | Simon Callow

4606 days ago
Guardian MusicOpera is thrilling, vibrant, versatile – and thriving. In fact, there has never been a better time to fall in love with the art formRichard Wagner, that shameless schmoozer, self-publicist, serial womaniser, fetishist, antisemite and torturer of th... more info

Wagner: Parsifal – review

4607 days ago
Guardian MusicVogt/Struckman/Holl/Dalayman/Netherlands Radio Choir & PO/Van Zweden (Challenge Classics, four SACDs and DVD)Valery Gergiev's recording of Parsifal, taken from concert performances in St Petersburg, was one of last year's outstanding new releases, a... more info

Rossini: William Tell – review

4614 days ago
Guardian MusicByström/Osborn/Finley/Cigni/Orchestra and Chorus of the Academia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia/Pappano (EMI, 3CDs)Antonio Pappano and his Academia di Santa Cecilia forces scored a notable success with Rossini's vast libertarian opera at this year's Pro... more info

Dance with the devil: an Israeli orchestra in Bayreuth

4630 days ago
Guardian MusicToday, an Israeli orchestra will be the first ever to perform at Bayreuth. Stephen Moss talks to the musicians risking controversyThe hot ticket in Bayreuth on Tuesday will not be Die Meistersinger in the Festspielhaus, but an orchestral concert at t... more info

Israeli orchestra angers Holocaust group by playing Wagner in Germany

4631 days ago
The Independent An Israeli orchestra is set to perform a work by Adolf Hitler's favourite composer, Richard Wagner, in a taboo-breaking concert in Germany. more info

Richard Wagner was no ranter | Martin Kettle

4631 days ago
Guardian MusicIt is banal to suggest his music promotes antisemitism, but the Israel Chamber Orchestra's Bayreuth performance mattersA small orchestra plays a small piece of music in a small town in Germany. Hardly the stuff of headlines around the world, you may ... more info

Siegfried – review

4631 days ago
Guardian MusicLongborough, Moreton-in-MarshAs Longborough Festival Opera reaches the third stage in its Ring cycle, it is once again a matter of wonder that any sense of Wagner's forbiddingly epic enormity is swept away by the essential clarity of director Alan Pr... more info

Israeli orchestra to perform Wagner in Germany at Bayreuth opera festival

4632 days ago
Guardian MusicIsrael Chamber Orcestra will play Siegfried Idyll, challenging seven-decade taboo surrounding composer's antisemitic linksThe Israel Chamber Orchestra will play a work by Richard Wagner, Hitler's favourite composer, in Germany on Tuesday, challenging... more info

In praise of … Longborough Festival Opera | Editorial

4632 days ago
Guardian MusicMartin and Lizzie Thomas have busily been laying the foundations of what may in time become a British BayreuthEach year, at the end of July, lovers of the operas of Richard Wagner make the journey from around the world to the composer's own theatre i... more info

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