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Showing posts with label Wagner Tannhäuser. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wagner Tannhäuser. Show all posts
Thursday, 14 December 2017

Powerful statement - Rattle Metamorphosen, Das Lied von der Erde

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By pairing  Mahler Das Lied von der Erde (Simon O'Neill, Christian Gerhaher) with Strauss Metamorphosen , Simon Rattle and the Londo...
Monday, 10 July 2017

Abendstern Tannhäuser - Bayerische Staatsoper Munich

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Wagner Tannhäuser at the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich,  with Klaus Florian Vogt, Christian Gerhaher, Anja Harteros and Georg Zeppenfeld...
Thursday, 8 September 2016

Johan Botha has died, and with him a piece of my heart

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Johan Botha died this morning in Vienna, of cancer, aged only 51. And with him dies a big part oif my heart.  Botha will be irreplacable...
Wednesday, 27 April 2016

Sex and Art :Tannhäuser Revisited, 2016

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Wagner Tannhäuser at the Royal Opera House, London in its second revival.  Perhaps the shock of the original 2010 production by Tim Alb...
Tuesday, 6 August 2013

Paradise and Penance Tannhäuser Prom & Bayreuth

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Wagner Tannhäuser Prom 29 and at Bayreuth. Worlds apart. If there were a contest between the two, Bayreuth would win on every single co...
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