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In early 2026 soprano Lise Davidsen will perform the role of Isolde in two cities: first in Barcelona, then New York City in March. In 2024,...
In this episode we present a rarely heard piece by the composer, comisioned to celebrate the Centennial of the United States of America.
In this podcast my good friends Francis and Julia Creighton discuss their insights into the Santa Fe Opera The Flying Dutchman ., which they...
This summer the Bayreuth Festival will present a new production of PARSIFAL that will use Augmented Reality glasses. It promises to be a lan...
In this podcast I am joined by my good friend, Francis Creighton , as we explore the custom of presenting Wagner at the MET during Spring ti...
This Lohengrin is one of the great recordings of the 1930's from the Bayreuth Festival . It features Franz Völker and Maria Müller , two of...
The Metropolitan Opera is currently presenting Wagner's Ring , and the return of the Robert Lapage controversial production. Last Saturday I...
It's that time of the year, when that midsummer classic the Bayreu th Festival begins once again. I will be attending this yearly ritual, an...
In this podcast, we explore the link between the musical score of Alfred Hitchcock 's masterpiece Vertigo , written by composer Bernard Herr...
When Parsifal is playing in town at the M etropolitan Opera it is a not-to-be-missed event. Luckily this year, I get to see it twice. My fir...
A guidebook to the city of Bayreuth, written at the turn of the century, got me thinking: I wonder what a trip to Bayreuth would have been l...
The Christmas season does not usually bring to mind the music of Richard Wagner , but it should, for on Christmas morning, in the year 1870,...
The Flying Dutchman ( Der fliegende Holländer ) is Richard Wagner 's answer to Halloween. The story of a ghostly sea captain who is doomed t...
My favorite moment in the Ring of the Nibelung occurs in the second act of Die Walküre. Brünnhilde visits Siegmund to tell him that he will...
My journey to Bayreuth this summer was filled with so many great performers by a host of very talented singing actors. Thinking about the mo...
After so many years of doing these podcasts I realized that I had never done a program dedicated exclusively to one of my favorite Wagner op...
Currently at the Ba yreut h F esti val there is an exhibit called "Silenced Voices." It is a tribute to the many singers, artists, and music...
During these uncertain days, when the whole world seems to be enveloped by confusion, war, and hate, Vincent and his guest Francis visit the...
This year we celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of Wieland Wagner, the composer's grandson, who in 1951 revolutionized the staging...
The Bayreuth Festival opened this week with a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , Wagner's only comedy. Barrie Kosky , the di...
It's been seven years since my last podcast. During that time many wonderful things happened including a visit to Bayreuth in 2012. Now, thi...
No stranger to controversy these days The Ba yreuth Festival opened at the end of July with a new production of Lohe ngrin directed by one o...
The Bayreuth Festival opened with a much anticipated production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg directed by Katharina Wagner , daughter of...
Arturo Toscanini was the most sought-after conductor in the 1930's. He became the first Italian to conduct at Bayreuth , and would have cont...
Richard Wagner composed his Symphony in C Major at the age of nineteen. It is clearly the work of a young man influenced by the towering fig...
For many opera lovers around the world, Canadian soprano Adrianne Pieczonka became a household word this summer after her critically praised...
On September of this year, soprano Astrid Varnay died in Munich, Germany. She was one of the great Wagnerian sopranos of our times, and one...
This performance of Götterdämmerung brings to a close the new production of the Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Bayreuth Festival . One of th...
One of the delights of the past two Bayreuth Festivals was listening to tenor Stephen Gould mesmerize audiences with his impressive performa...
At this year's Bayreuth Festival , one thing is certain: the new production of the Ring is receiving standing ovations thanks to the vision...
The highlight of this year's Bayreuth Festival is the new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen , staged by director Tankred Dorst , and con...
Most critics will agree that the richest period of Wagnerian singing in The United States took place during the 1940's, and '50's at the Met...
The Bayreuth Festival will open this year on July 25 with a performance of Der fliegende Holländer , Wagner's first "mature" opera. This pro...
In contrast to the first "complete" recording ever made at the Bayreuth Festival in 1928, which was the subject of our two previous podcasts...
In our second and last podcast in this series celebrating the historic recording of the 1928 Bayreuth production of Wagner's Tristan und Iso...
This podcast presents excerpts from the 1928 recording of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde . Technical difficulties during this period of recorde...
For many years, Italian was a second language to Wagner's operas, as scores of Italian singers performed the composer's music in their nativ...
In the conclusion of this three-part series, we look back at the work of American baritone Clarence Whitehill , who excelled in Wagnerian ro...
The second part of the show brings us past the Bayreuth Nazi Era, and all the way up to the 1951 re-opening of the Festival after the war. T...
In our premiere Podcast, we will explore the various ways in which Wagner's last opera, Parsifal , has been performed since it first saw the...
After almost two years online, Wagneroperas.com is adding a new dimension to the website: podcasting! In a few short days this site's first...