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Bark, not Bayreuth 27 Aug 2013 | 12:44 pm
Is Der Ring des Nibelungen responsible for the transformation of Seattle from a gray, damp, low-rise Boeing company town where half the jokes had punchlines in Norwegian (and were about lutefisk in an...
In the kingdom of the blind 27 Aug 2013 | 02:29 am
Which veteran artist delivers doubly sad news this week, canceling an opera that was written for her?
The Platz thickens 26 Aug 2013 | 03:18 pm
I’m told that the public were, if hardly enthusiastic, at least ambivalent toward the Frank Castorf Ring up until the first performance of Siegfried, at which point things got really ugly and the booi...
Pause 25 Aug 2013 | 10:49 am
Let’s take a moment, liebes Publikum, to discuss off-topic and general interest subjects.
Flame off 24 Aug 2013 | 11:39 am
Our Own JJ offers a late installment of Canard based on a few thoughts about the Walkuere segment of Frank Castorf’s Bayreuth Ring. First things first: working from the limited evidence of half or les...
First impressions 23 Aug 2013 | 05:26 pm
Our Own JJ reports: There are some productions that “introduce” themselves quite clearly early on: for example, the Patrice Chereau Ring puts it cards on the table very frankly with the image of the h...
Here in Bayreuth 22 Aug 2013 | 03:10 pm
Our Own JJ (right) reports he is ready and relatively un-jetlagged for Das Rheingold tonight at Bayreuth. He'll have comments afterward.
A Faustian bargain 21 Aug 2013 | 05:00 pm
What we have here is the grandest opera never heard—in spite of the fact that Giacomo Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable made, arguably, the most sensational debut of any in the history of the Paris Opéra. ...
A pair of kings 20 Aug 2013 | 08:18 pm
Opera Teen (pictured) approves of this summer’s program at the Glimmerglass Festival.
Shaken, not stirred 20 Aug 2013 | 04:30 pm
“Among the highlights of the first performance of Camille was the fact that its only solo was a Parisian ballad sung by ‘Our Mary’ Garden atop a table in her fashionable salon and its only chorus a fe...
