Washington Post (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Two half sisters, daughters of the same father by different mothers, who have hardly ever met, are joined in an unexpected twist of fate: It's a familiar plot line at the Wagner opera festival at Bayreuth, Germany. On stage, it applies to Wotan's daughters Sieglinde, the mother of Siegfried, and...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
"A performance of Richard Wagner's "Siegfried" at this year's Bayreuth Festival was delayed by 10 minutes on Thursday evening owing to torrential rain that flooded parts of the legendary Festspielhaus theatre. The so-called "under stage" -- installations below stage level that are invisible to the audience -- and a low-lying building adjacent to the theatre were flooded."...
ABC TV (Free subscription) | 26/07/2008
The outstanding singer Max Lorenz was Hitler's favourite tenor. Tracing Lorenz's career involves contemplating a highly volatile period in recent history from the perspective of an ambivalent artistic personality.
Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008
Festival d'Aix-en-Provence starts tomorrow night, July 27! This year marks the 60th anniversary. The opera lineup is sweet, with Mozart's Zaide & Cosi fan tutte, Wagner's Siegfried, Pascal Dusapin's Passion, Haendel's Belshazzar (which ends the two-month festival on Wednesday 23...
Feast of Music (Free subscription) | 16/05/2008
"We need the biggest star in the Universe. We need you, Kanye." (from Kanye West's show, Madison Square Garden, 5/13/08) "O Siegfried! Glorious being! Wealth of the world! Life of the earth! Laughing hero!" (from Siegfried, Metropolitan Opera, 2004) (Times...
ABC 13 (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
Wotan"s moment of truth has been depicted thousands of times in opera houses across the world since Wagner"s "Siegfried" premiered 132 years ago - but probably seldom as starkly as Sunday at the Vienna State Opera.
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
Wotan's moment of truth has been depicted thousands of times in opera houses across the world since Wagner's "Siegfried" premiered 132 years ago - but probably seldom as starkly as Sunday at the Vienna State Opera.
Channel 7 News (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
Wotan"s moment of truth has been depicted thousands of times in opera houses across the world since Wagner"s "Siegfried" premiered 130 years ago - but probably seldom as starkly as Sunday at the Vienna State Opera
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
VIENNA, Austria -- Wotan's moment of truth has been depicted thousands of times in opera houses across the world since Wagner's "Siegfried" premiered 132 years ago - but probably seldom as starkly as Sunday at the Vienna State Opera.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
Wotan's moment of truth has been depicted thousands of times in opera houses across the world since Wagner's "Siegfried" premiered 130 years ago - but probably seldom as starkly as Sunday at the Vienna State Opera.
WorkAtHome (Free subscription) | 28/04/2008
Wotan's moment of truth has been depicted thousands of times in opera houses across the world since Wagner’s “Siegfried” premiered 130 years ago — but probably seldom as starkly as Sunday at the Vienna State Opera.
Opera Chic (Free subscription) | 02/03/2008
Sweeney Todd fanboi Bryn Terfel had to take a lot of flak these past five months for his September 2007 surprise cancellation, where he suddenly announced a high-profile pullout from singing Wotan (in Siegfried) for the ROH Wagner Ring Cycle...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 26/02/2008
The highly anticipated performances in the Wiener Staatsoper's new production of "Siegfried,", directed by Sven-Eric Bechtolf, were to mark Voigt's first-ever assumption of the role of Brünnhilde in any of Wagner's "Ring" cycle operas....
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 14/02/2008
The Northwest Sinfonietta couples Beethoven's Eighth Symphony with Wagner's "Siegfried Idyll" and the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto this weekend in Seattle and Tacoma.
