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  • Superconductor: We celebrate Wagner’s 200th birthday with an entirely appropriate long philosophical rant... 12:48 PM
  • la vociaccia: To be completely fair, Genevieve’s Castle Room posted the Prelude to Act one of Lohengrin on... 12:45 PM
  • marshiemarkII: Look, of course I would have wanted to put something from the H-moll Messe or the Mattheus or... 12:45 PM
  • phoenix: httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=J3-U -Vxq7bg 12:35 PM
  • ajsnyc: It’s a great work which I listen to all the time. There are passages that are among the best things... 12:33 PM
  • la vociaccia: oh no!!! One of my favorite composers. httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=g0gD WO6xojk... 12:21 PM
  • m. croche: Dutilleux-champion Renee Fleming: httpv://www.youtub e.com/watch?v=_lwf XEe5VDA 12:18 PM
  • Hippolyte: I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that so far not a single excerpt from Lohengrin has appeared.... 12:18 PM

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Leave it to those Torontonians to blow the lid off an opera story happening in New York! (Goodness knows the local journalists don’t bother.) Did you know that Des McAnuff has been jetting between New York and the west coast,  simultaneously directing Faust and Jesus Christ Superstar respectively? Or that future Met seasons will include a Robert Lepage production of The Tempest and McAnuff’s Falstaff? We really do need to get those deucedly clever Canadians cracking on that Citigroup settlement story! [Toronto.com]