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Parsifal – review

5060 days ago

Guardian Music — Coliseum, LondonSince it was created at the Coliseum in 1999, Nikolaus Lehnhoff's staging of Wagner's final opera has been seen across Europe and the US, but it has not been revived by English National Opera until now. The production has inevitably e... more info

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Cheap'n'cheesy: can bargain classical CDs go any lower?

5075 days ago

Guardian Music — Customers are the winners in the classical price-cutting craze, but some of the repackaging could do with a makeoverI've just bought Furtwängler's Rome recording of Wagner's Ring for less than £40. I never know how it makes economic sense for EMI, ... more info

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Crushable Books: The 6 Weirdest Subcultures In 'Freak Nation'

5097 days ago

Big Apple Music Scene — Kate Stevens' Freak Nation is a strange field guide of our culture's most unusual collectors, hobbyists, and self-proclaimed specialists. It's kind of like The Hipster Handbook, if hipsters were simultaneously obsessed with coin collecting (Numisma... more info

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Wagner: Rienzi – review

5130 days ago

Guardian Music — Nylund/Aldrich/Kerl/Deutsche Oper Berlin Chorus and Orchestra/Lang-Lessing(Arthaus Musik, 2DVDs)The jury is still out on Rienzi, Wagner's monstrous 1842 study of a bourgeois revolution that goes wrong. It was popular in his lifetime, though his event... more info

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Italy arts cut protests reach crescendo with riots at Milan's La Scala

5132 days ago

Guardian Music — Demonstrations led by conductor Daniel Barenboim at opera house turn violent as Rome votes on 37% cut in arts fundingPolice and protesters tonight clashed violently outside La Scala, as the conductor Daniel Barenboim also took advantage of the Milan ... more info

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The Alma problem

5137 days ago

Guardian Music — Married to Gustav Mahler at 22, Alma Schindler's composing career was cut short at her husband's insistence. But this extraordinary woman was far from a tragic victim of misogynyMusic is music whether composed by angels or monsters. Alma Mahler was a... more info

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BBCNOW/Ono – review

5161 days ago

Guardian Music — Hoddinott Hall, CardiffIt's fun when concerts get to the far end of the alphabet. This one highlighted works by Strauss, Takemitsu, Wagner and Zemlinsky, with each composer using the orchestra as the vehicle to indulge their instinct for exploiting i... more info

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Wagner great-granddaughter retracts invite to Israeli orchestra

5192 days ago

Guardian Music — Holocaust survivors outraged at plan for Israeli orchestra to open German festival celebrating Hitler's favourite composerOutrage in Israel over leaked reports that one of the country's leading orchestras has been invited to open next year's Wagner f... more info

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Wagner Row: Israeli Orchestra Vows To Play On

5193 days ago

Sky News — An Israeli orchestra is to press ahead with plans to play in the German city most associated with anti-semitic composer Richard Wagner, despite criticism at home. more info

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Israeli orchestra set to play at Wagner festival

5195 days ago

Reuters — JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli orchestra is set to become the first ensemble from the Jewish state to play a German festival associated with Richard Wagner, a composer admired by Adolf Hitler and whose music has been controversial in Israel. more info

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Parsifal – review

Cheap'n'cheesy: can bargain classical CDs go any lower?

Crushable Books: The 6 Weirdest Subcultures In 'Freak Nation'

Wagner: Rienzi – review

Italy arts cut protests reach crescendo with riots at Milan's La Scala

The Alma problem

BBCNOW/Ono – review

Wagner great-granddaughter retracts invite to Israeli orchestra

Wagner Row: Israeli Orchestra Vows To Play On

Israeli orchestra set to play at Wagner festival

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