Richard Wagner News

Standing room only crowd jams Meyerhoff Symphony to start new season.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra President Stanley E. Romanstein, Ph.D., Music Director Robert Spano, and Principal Guest Conductor Donald Runnicles have announced the 2012-13 season of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra - the Orchestra's 68th season and Mr. Spano's and Mr. Runnicles's 12th season as artistic partners.

Only decades after his death in 1925 was French composer Erik Satie hailed as a genius of contemporary classical music. His work was extremely simple in structure, yet innovative and marked by a characteristic wryness and wit. His reliance on unusual harmonic configurations was a reaction against the heavy, symbol-rich music of his era, a time when the works of Romantic European composers like Richard Wagner were still very much in vogue, and the highly decorated Impressionism of his friend, Claude Debussy, was ascendant. Satie left a relatively scarce body of work behind, most of it written for the piano. But his groundbreaking use of bitonal or polytonal notes and "broken" rhythms would become a benchmark of twentieth-century modernist music.

Der Monat Oktober steht an der Deutschen Oper Berlin im Zeichen ihres 100. Geburtstags

OHIO, REVISITED, an original work from writer/director Cara Scarmack and ensemble The Roadsters, has a special one-night-only performance at Dixon Place tonight, September 6. The Roadsters will be returning from their US Tour of the piece at the Off Center in Burlington, Vermont (Aug 22-25).

OHIO, REVISITED, an original work from writer/director Cara Scarmack and ensemble The Roadsters, has a special one-night-only performance at Dixon Place on Thursday, September 6. The Roadsters will be returning from their US Tour of the piece at the Off Center in Burlington, Vermont (Aug 22-25).

Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) has announced the formation of a Brisbane choir that will play a key role in The Hamburg Season. The Hamburg Season is the 2012 offering within the QPAC International Series to be presented this month by QPAC and Events Queensland.

An diesem Wochenende geht mit dem Festival für Neue Musik INFEKTION! die Spielzeit 2011/2012 der Staatsoper im Schiller Theater zu Ende. Unter der Leitung von Jürgen Flimm und General­musikdirektor Daniel Barenboim konnte in der 2. Saison nach dem Umzug in das neue Quartier in Charlottenburg ein deutliches Besucherplus erreicht werden.

This summer, Caramoor's Director of Opera Will Crutchfield will mark the 16th season of the Bel Canto at Caramoor series.

The Glimmerglass Festival, the Central New York summer opera and musical theater company, has announced its 2013 season and its partnership in The Festival of American Romantics in Cooperstown, New York.

The Canadian Opera Company has closed another successful opera season with 2011/2012 recording an average attendance of 91%. A total of 125,238 patrons attended the 67 performances of the company's seven mainstage productions in the Four Seasons Centre for the Performing Arts: Gluck's Iphigenia in Tauris, Verdi's Rigoletto, Puccini's Tosca, Saariaho's Love from Afar, Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann, the double bill of Zemlinsky's A Florentine Tragedy and Puccini's Gianni Schicchi, and Handel's Semele.

According to Showbiz411, the music from Meatloaf's 'Bat Out of Hell' album, written by Jim Steinman, is being worked into a stage show. Originally written for a Peter Pan musical that never happened, the songs will be featured 'as a meditation on Captain Hook and friends.' Though it was originally aiming for a West End run, the show is now eying Broadway.

A combination of grand and modern operas will be performed during Indianapolis Opera's 37th season, at both Clowes Memorial Hall and the Frank and Katrina Basile Opera Center. From Akhnaten, a new partnership with the Indiana University Opera Theater, to Amahl and the Night Visitors, a new holiday tradition, to the eerie story of The Flying Dutchman, this season's lineup offers something for everyone.

Habiendo terminado la Temporada Live in HD 2011 - 2012 de la Metropolitan Opera House en el Auditorio Nacional, se realizaran una serie de retransmisiones de las cuatro operas de Richard Wagner, que forman parte del internacionalmente aclamado ciclo de El Anillo del Nibelungo (Der Ring des Nibelungen).

Auf der Pressekonferenz am 12. April der Berliner Staatsoper stellten Intendant Jürgen Flimm und General­­musikdirektor Daniel Barenboim das Programm der Spielzeit 2012/2013 vor, der dritten Saison der Staatsoper im Schiller Theater.

Come to the Cabaret, old chums, and check out these pics of the original film cast Liza Minnelli, Michael York and Joel Grey at the 40th Anniversary Restoration film premiere for CABARET at the 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival, Los Angeles, yesterday. Featuring Robert Osbourne, Richard Wagner, Jennifer Grey and more.

Joined by guest vocalists Michele Losier, mezzo-soprano, and Alisa Suzanne Jordheim, soprano, CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni and the Columbus Symphony will perform works inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet and A Midsummer's Night Dream.

Joined by guest vocalists Michele Losier, mezzo-soprano, and Alisa Suzanne Jordheim, soprano, CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni and the Columbus Symphony will perform works inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet and A Midsummer's Night Dream.

Staatsoperndirektor Dominique Meyer, Generalmusikdirektor Franz Welser-Möst, Ballettdirektor Manuel Legris und der Kaufmännische Geschäftsführer Thomas W. Platzer haben heute, Dienstag, 27. März 2012 den Spielplan der kommenden Saison 2012/2013 präsentiert.

Music Director Grant Llewellyn and the North Carolina Symphony head west to Lexington, Mars Hill, Cherokee and Flat Rock, April 24-27, with "Beethoven and Beyond," a program focusing on great works by Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner and Liszt. All performances begin at 7:30 p.m.