On Saturday 9 April 2024 in Prague, the exceptional concert performance of Wagner’s Die Walküre will have the flavour of the inauguration of the Dresdner Musikfestspiele. Indeed, since last season, the celebrated cellist Jan Vogler, artistic director of the prestigious German festival, has teamed up with conductor Kent Nagano for a major Wagnerian project. To […]

Since 21 January 2024, the Semperoper in Dresden has been staging a revival of Richard Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde under the musical direction of Christian Thielemann, marking an eagerly awaited debut for Klaus Florian Vogt in the role of Tristan. After an absence of more than ten years, Marco Arturo Marelli‘s production, first performed in […]

From 9 November to 3 December 2023, the Zurich opera house will be staging Götterdämmerung, Twilight of the Gods, the final part of Wagner‘s famous Nibelungen Ring tetralogy. Other performances of the complete cycle are scheduled at the Opernhaus in May 2024, but another Ring event has been announced for Berlin during the Festtage at […]

A major event of the season, a new production of Der Ring des Nibelungen is on the cards, with the first episode of Wagner’s tetralogy on show from 24 October to 9 November 2023. La Monnaie de Bruxelles is decked out in gold with Das Rheingold, conducted as it should be by its musical director […]

Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who recently renewed his contract with the Philadelphia Orchestra, has his work cut out for him. The artistic director of the Metropolitan Opera is preparing to conduct the world premiere of Terence Blanchard’s opera Champion from 10 April 2023 (after the success of Fire Shut Up in My Bones). Since 26 February […]

The Leipzig Opera House, which was to perform a new production of Wagner’s Lohengrin by Katharina Wagner, has to adapt to health measures. On November 7, 2020, it will premiere the Wagner’s opera in a reduced format currently being edited by Prof. Schirmer (Intendant of the Oper Leipzig), Oper Leipzig’s head dramaturge, Dr. Christian Geltinger, […]

Wagner stays at home in his birth town. While Oper Leipzig (his hometown) just annonced its 20-21 season, it is already organizing a major festival dedicated to the famous composer, in 2022. From June 20 to July 14, 2022, all of 13 Wagner’s operas will be performed. This season already, the institution gives an overview […]

A very impressive Wagner’s Parsifal is expected at the Capitole Theater in Toulouse from January 26 to February 4, 2020. After the great success of Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice at the Opéra Comique, Aurélien Bory directs the ultimate Wagner’s masterpiece with an exceptional cast. Along with Nikolai Schukoff and Peter Rose, music lovers will be […]

Wagner at Lully and Rameau’s! The Royal Opera of the Palais de Versailles is about to perform a concert version of Wagners’ Das Rheingold conducted by Sébastien Rouland (on July 6, 2020). The dream of of Louis II of Bavaria (great admirer of both Versailles and Wagner) is now   Information and booking.   Photo […]