DCist (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Conductor Philippe Auguin In 2006, when Washington National Opera opened its American Ring Cycle, few could have imagined that it would end as it did on Saturday night, with a concert performance of Götterdämmerung . After very promising productions of Das Rheingold and Die Walküre in 2006 and 2007, financial considerations delayed the staging of Siegfried by one season, to last spring,...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Richard Wagner's four-opera "Der Ring des Nibelungen" — better known in English as the "Ring Cycle" — follows the tale of golden ring that confers great powers upon its owner. But it also carries a deadly curse. Staging this epic multi-evening extravaganza can really put an opera company on the map. The Washington National Opera, with its philosophically flawed but visually...
The Window Manager (Free subscription) | 16/09/2009
“Is it better to be living in a civilization’s ascendency or its descent'”For you non-opera fans out there, “Götterdämmerung” translates to Twilight of the Gods, Wagner’s famous opera. And I believe, and have felt it now for a while, that I am living in my civilization’s descent.I look around me and see the signs all around, and I think most Americans...
Mungowit's End (Free subscription) | 06/09/2009
Tomorrow in Samoa: Twilight of the Driver --Driverdämmerung! : ( götterdämmerung -- Dictionary : göt·ter·däm·mer·ung or Göt·ter·däm·mer·ung (gŏt'ər-dăm'ə-rŭng', gœt'ər-dĕm'ə-rʊng') A turbulent ending of a regime or an institution. [Comes from "Götterdämmerung,"...
garagecar (Free subscription) | 24/08/2009
The 760Li, which shares its basic engine technology with the soon-to-materialise Rolls-Royce Ghost, provides one of the more luxurious and quickest ways to complete any road journey. The first of those can start as the owner drives it from BMW Welt on the route out of Munich and on to an autobahn of their choice for a long, loping, relaxed trip home. At least they can if they don't plan to take it...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 23/08/2009
A physicist "went through Götterdämmerung note-by-note, lyric-by-lyric, recording which notes were paired with which vowel sounds. In the early hours of the next morning he wrote a computer program to determine with statistical certainty whether Wagner had in fact used a vowel-pitch matching technique. Looking at the program's first results, he was amazed. There was a clear relationship."...
MilkandCookies.com (Free subscription) | 16/08/2009
From Wagner's Götterdämmerung. Klaus Tennstedt conducting.
On a Pacific Aisle (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009
One of the first things people like to point out about the Ring cycle is that the "cyclical" part is key — by ending Götterdämmerung where Rheingold began, Wagner reinforces the idea that this is a timeless yarn that plays out again and again into eternity. And not just the story, but the reenactment thereof, so don't wait to buy your tickets for next year as soon as this...
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 03/08/2009
The Mariinsky's slapdash delivery of Wagner's great work doesn't ring true. Rating:
The Economist (Free subscription) | 23/07/2009
Valery Gergiev gives his ill-fated “Ring” cycle yet another makeover EVEN at the heart of the Richard Wagner cult in Bayreuth, it takes nine days to stage the German composer’s four-part epic, “Der Ring des Nibelungen”. The demands on the leading singers are so great that after the curtain falls on the first piece, “Das Rheingold”, there are breaks of at least...
Bass Blog (Free subscription) | 20/07/2009
Concerts this (last )week A Wednesday, July 15 Wagner - “Siegfried’s Funeral March” from Götterdämmerung Schumann -Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54 Prokofiev - Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 100 James Conlon, conductor Garrick Ohlsson, piano B Saturday, July 18 Copland - Fanfare for the Common Man Copland - Lincoln Portrait Beethoven - Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op....
PlaybillArts.com (Free subscription) | 17/07/2009
"Smart fans got their tickets when they first went on sale. Those who hesitated lost out!" A smash hit mounting of Wagner's Götterdämmerung completed its run at Aix-en-Provence July 12. Frank Cadenhead was on hand for the production, which starred Ben Heppner and Katerina Dalayman.
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Michael Kennedy hears Mark Elder and the Halle Orchestra give an impressive concert performance of Wagner's Götterdämmerung.
The Filter^ (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
It's been one of the most eagerly anticipated events of the classical music calendar. All the broadsheet critics where there, but The Filter Review can bring you the first review of the Hallé's two-night concert performance of Wagner's Götterdämmerung, which...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
With this performance of “Götterdämmerung,” Otto Schenk’s production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle was being retired after more than 20 years.
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