Richard Wagner

...candy box setting of its home, the Birch North Park Theatre. Its success in meeting them was uneven. A disciple of Richard Wagner, Humperdinck expanded what was originally a set of songs meant for holiday performance at home into an...

In this article: Hansel and Gretel, Lyric Opera San Diego, Engelbert Humperdinck, San Diego, and Vienna

...Orchestra and Music Director Israel Getzov will perform the a Prelude and Love-Deatha from the opera Tristan and Isolde by Richard Wagner and the Symphony No. 7 by Ludwig van Beethoven at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Reynolds Performance Hall,...

In this article: Ludwig van Beethoven, All rights reserved, Symphony No. 7, University of Central Arkansas, and Associated Press

CONWAY The Conway Symphony Orchestra will feature two classical music giants, Ludwig van Beethoven and Richard Wagner, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Donald W. Reynolds Performance Hall at the University of Central Arkansas. Beethovena s...

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...actors and di... Wagner descendant protests 'anti-semitic' music at Wall festivities Cologne - Richard Wagner's great-grandson, Gottfried Wagner, on Friday protested the choice of music at festivities 20 years after the fall of the Berlin...

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...virtuosity, debuts its new season with a program including Carl Nielsen's Helios Overture, Brahms' "Variation On a Theme By Haydn," Richard Wagner's Prelude to Act I from "Lohengrin," and Samuel Barber's Symphony No. 1. 7:30 p.m. Saturday;...

In this article: Seattle, Maurice Ravel, L'Eventail de Jeanne, Bolero, Symphony No. 1, Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and Lohengrin

...program devoted its first half to French masters Hector Berlioz and Charles Gounod. The evening closed with German colossus Richard Wagner. The star of the show was supposed to have been Canadian tenor Ben Heppner, but he withdrew last week...

In this article: Russell Braun, Canadian Opera Company, Ramon Vargas, Ben Heppner, Charles Gounod, and Toronto

...able to sing. One of the world's favourite dramatic tenors had still not shaken a virus he caught last month during a run of Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde in London. Instead of getting reacquainted with the city that is going to...

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Cologne - Richard Wagner's great-grandson, Gottfried Wagner, on Friday protested the choice of music at festivities 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which includes a composition by his "anti-semitic" great-grandfather. Israeli...

In this article: Berlin, Roman Polanski, Michael Jackson, Lord of the Rings, Lohengrin, Slumdog Millionaire, Europe, and Danny Boyle

...since its 2001 Tannhauser. Summers has conducted more than 30 operas here since his 1999 HGO debut with La Traviata. But Richard Wagner is a world unto himself and not only because of the devilish demands of his music. There's a...

In this article: Lohengrin, Indiana University, Fascism, Tannhauser, Parsifal, Don Carlo, and Richard Strauss

...and unwise. The truth is, many people did like the production and the critic has the right to his opinion. Calling Richard Wagner "a genocidal racist", on the other hand, is truly misleading and it further undermines legitimacy of...

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