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"The Life and Work of Richard Wagner"
12th January 2014, 4pm
Barbican, Cinema 1

A newly restored silent landmark of the first feature-length film to be made about the composer Richard Wagner with an original piano score composed and performed by Jean Hasse.

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The Life and Works of Richard Wagner

As part of the 200th anniversary celebrations of Richard Wagner’s birth, the Bayreuth Festival has staged a new production of the Ring - by the artistic director of Berlin's Volksbühne, Frank Castorf.  Castorf, who clearly had very limited rehearsal time, takes an essentially non-Wagnerian view of the work. The result is a provocative, irritating yet fascinating production that could best be

Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen performed by Salzburg Marionette Theatre.


Salzburg Marionette Theatre will perform a compressed, two-hour version of Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Friday, December 13th, and Saturday, December 14th at 6:30 pm.

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More Wagner productions in 2013

's wär' wohl gar ein biblisches Lied? Superlative performances by Markus Werba (Beckmesser) and Michael Volle (Hans Sachs). © Salzburger Festspiele / Forster

Stefan Herheim's long awaited production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg at the Salzburg Festival premiered Friday last week. It was well received by the audiences, generally also by the critics.

You can watch the production online on

Richard Wagner's key essay Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft (The Artwork of the Future) is now available in a new translation by Emma Warner – the first since 1895.

This special issue of The Wagner Journal is available at £15, free to all subscribers of The Wagner Journal.

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The WPO, consisting of talented young musicians ages 15 to 22 from all
over the world, promotes these themes through its annual Play for Peace
concerts, which also feature prominent guest artists and other public
figures. The WPO selects a different theme each year to draw public
attention to specific global issues.
The first Play for Peace
concert will take place in New York City at

UNITEL CLASSICA broadcasts the WAGNER GALA from the Semperoper Dresden to celebrate the 200th birthday of the great composer. Music director Christian Thielemann conducts the ouvertures and great tenor scenes from Richard Wagner’s operas which were premiered in Dresden. Jonas Kaufmann, one of the most popular Wagnerian tenors of the age, will be a special guest. The concert will be broadcast