I am once again going to laud the classic Rudolf Kempe commercial recording of Lohengrin (which I have lauded overall) for its conducting.
Teresa Zylis-Gara died in late August at 91 and Trove Thursday offers the Polish soprano in a wide-ranging collection of live material showcasing her great versatility.
Christian Thielemann is widely regarded as our time’s preeminent master of the Austro-German symphonic ensemble.
The focus in this 1974 performance of Salome from Orange is (mostly) on the Herodes of Jon Vickers.
If works like Salome and Erwartung defined modernism in the first decades of the 20th century, Die Tote Stadt and Palestrina represented the regressive avant garde.
The 1965 season was a time of big changes at the Vienna State Opera.
A new CD
features the ten most gorgeous minutes recorded by a tenor in Wagner since World War II.
Richard Wagner believed the key to any legend was contrasting the supernatural with human nature, and showing how the combination had no chance of enduring. In Lohengrin, the title’s character’s insistence on unconditional love and trust collide with the conditional expectations of the real world. The challenge is capturing the tale’s somber majesty without losing…
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
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