Tag: Richard Wagner
WNO’s ‘Gods & Mortals: A Celebration of Wagner’ is a Wagner-phile’s...
Washington National Opera samples composer Richard Wagner’s greatest hits. By WILLIAM POWELL
Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Gives a Haydn Masterpiece a Local Premiere
The programming of music by Haydn is unusual for The Philadelphia Orchestra. The choice is even more surprising coming from conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who...
Review: ‘Quartet’ at Bristol Riverside Theatre
Every few weeks we read in the news about the death, at 90+ years, of a beloved celebrity or artist. Someone always asks, “Whatever...
Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Presents Leonard Bernstein’s First Major Composition
Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1 was the major undertaking at The Philadelphia Orchestra’s concerts of May 3, 5 and 6, 2017. Yannick Nézet-Séguin led...
Review: Pianist Lise de la Salle at the Phillips Collection
Picking through bombastic music to extract the musical message and leave a lingering impression of something other than bombast is a skill to be...
Interview: Tom Teasley on his Percussion Composition for ‘Metropolis’ playing at...
For five nights only, world renowned percussionist Tom Teasley is performing an original composition set to Fritz Lang's 1927 sci-fi film Metropolis. I saw...
Review: ‘The Ring Cycle’: ‘The Rhinegold’ at Washington National Opera
German composer Richard Wagner’s much heralded and talked about (over the past many decades!) Ring Cycle opened at The Kennedy Center Opera House on...
Review: ‘The Flying Dutchman’ at Virginia Opera
How should we deal with the storms of life? Should we go through life content and yet oblivious to the suffering of ourselves and...
Violinist Ji Young Lim at the Phillips Collection
Somebody must have rung a bell and instructed judges at all international music competitions to start awarding prizes to young classical musicians who already...
The National Philharmonic’s ‘Rienzi, A Concert Opera’ at Strathmore
Artistic risk-taking in Washington extends across many genres to numerous performing groups. The region’s vocal music scene certainly got a flavor of that on...
Review: ‘Wagner, Max! Wagner’ a Song Cycle at The Kennedy Center
Even those familiar with the work of Stew and Heidi Rodewald, the duo behind Obie and Tony-award winning musical Passing Strange, might find a...
Pianist Alon Goldstein at the Odeon Chamber Music Series
Franz Schubert’s Piano Sonata No. 19 in C minor is a sprawling, at times even rambling composition that takes a full half hour to...
‘The Romantics Wagner & Liszt’ at The In Series
The In Series self-described salon-style concert tribute is a celebration of musical mastery – from the two composers featured to the pianists and singers...
George Mason University’s Center for the Arts Announces 25th Anniversary Season...
Celebrating 25 years of bringing outstanding performing arts to George Mason University and audiences in the greater Washington, DC area, George Mason University’s Center...
‘The Flying Dutchman’ (‘Der Fliegende Holländer’) at Washington National Opera
The Washington National Opera takes to the seas for Richard Wagner’s first major work, The Flying Dutchman (Der Fliegende Holländer). WNO Artistic Director Francesca Zambello has...
SILVERDOCS: ‘Wagner’s Dream’ by Bari Biern
Wagner’s Dream (USA) 112 minutes
Richard Wagner spent 25 years composing the Ring Cycle, a 16-hour magnum opus, largely based on Norse and German myths. The...