A revival of David Alden’s war-torn staging of Wagner’s early opera finds disturbing new resonance with current events; in the pit Jakub Hrůša has an unerring sense of the work’s structure It is only ...
A new production of Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin by French director Olivier Py, will have its Australian premiere at Melbourne’s State Theatre on Saturday 14 May, with an exceptional cast featuring the ...
“How do you improve on perfection?” someone asks as the lights go down and an army of classical music virtuosos slink onto stage. The Avalanches and the Adelaide Symphony Orchestra.Jiayuan Liang & ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Lohengrin, Wagner’s opera of the holy knight come to save the people of Brabant from invasion, has an important ...
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Love is seldom simple in Wagner's operas. There is always a curse or a price, ...
Welsh National Opera’s contribution to the Wagner bicentenary is in the form of a summer season entitled Wagner Dream, consisting of Jonathan Harvey’s opera of the same name, a run of Madam Butterfly, ...
Over time, enough foods, wines, and spirits have been themed to “Lohengrin” that all gathered together; they could well be presented during that opera’s opulent wedding feast. The Alsatian producer ...
An exemplary revival brings David Alden’s 2018 Wagner production into sharp focus. And an overlooked contemporary of Mozart’s is celebrated by Errollyn Wallen The swan-swastika banners, boots and guns ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Wagner subtitled Lohengrin a “romantic opera” – with good reason. A love story that goes wrong, it is chock-full of ...
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