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2022-02-07 14:06:00
R.I.P. Hans Neuenfels, 1941-2022
[…] never hammered home; the work made one reflect upon the staging and vice versa. Again, the darker side of Lohengrin, the nature of its ultra-mysterious charismatic hero and the way a crowd would follow him, was the stuff of the conflict. (That could not help but leave one asking: were Ortrud and Telramund right to resist? Were they the true rebels, revolutionaries even?) It was a pity, therefore, that we did not hear the word Führer when Lohengrin introduced his successor, Gottfried (‘Seht da den Herzog von Brabant! Zum Führer sei er euch ernannt!’) Schützer, the ‘Protector’ employed earlier for Lohengrin, was used instead. Perhaps the abiding question with which we were left related to who was actually running the experiment? Who was on the outside? It is, in a sense, a variation upon a perennial problem of political philosophy, never more so than in Rousseau: who is the Legislator? […]
2022-01-06 05:00:00
Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) Missa Solemnis in B-flat minor, WAB 29 (1854) Tantum Ergo (Sakramentslied) in B-flat major, WAB 44 (1852) Magnificat in B-flat major, WAB 24 (1852) Joseph Eybler (1765-1846) Magna et mirabilia Offertorium in B-flat major, IHV 108 (1828) Robert Führer (1807-1861) Christus factus est Graduale in F minor, KoIF 87 14(1830) Johann Baptist Gänsbacher Te Deum in D major, Op 45 (1844) Lukasz Borowicz, Akademie für alte Musik Berlin, RIAS Kammerchor (Period Instruments) Accentus Musicus ACC 30429 (2018) Flac & Scans]
2020-06-15 07:20:50
Richard Wagner's heir, innovative festival director, opera composer, homosexual; the complex tale of Siegfried Wagner,
Siegfried Wagner Siegfried Wagner was Richard Wagner's only son and heir. He never managed to escape the influence of his dominating mother; a successful opera composer himself, his operas were never performed at the Bayreuth Festival. As director of the Festival, he introduced important innovations, yet his use of the casting couch was notorious and his homosexuality was an open secret. Siegfried Wagner was born in 1869 at Tribschen on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland, where Richard Wagner's patron King Ludwig II had installed him after the scandal in Munich surrounding Richard's affair with Cosima von Bülow (wife of the conductor Hans von Bülow, who had been conducting the premiere of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in Munich). Siegfried, the third of Richard and Cosima's children was born before they were able to marry in 1870. And in 1871, Richard Wagner moved to Bayreuth to pursue his […]
2020-06-08 07:55:20
Adventures on the Green Hill: Tony Cooper explores Richard Wagner's villa Wahnfried at Bayreuth
[…] mother’s death on 1st April 1930 aged 92, the effective head of the family - Siegfried’s widow, Winifred - took over the Bayreuth Festival controlling it with an iron-fist mentality until the end of the Second World War. However, her reign was severely tarnished by her association with Adolf Hitler whom she first met in 1923. Their relationship grew so close that by 1933 strong rumours were circulating of impending marriage highlighted, perhaps, by the Führer’s frequent visits to Wahnfried which became one of his favourite retreats. Winifred, in fact, made the Bayreuth Festival the summer gathering-place for the Nazi élite from 1933 to 1939. Bayreuth: The Festspielhaus decorated and illuminated to celebrate Hitler's birthday: April 20, 1939 The collapse of the Third Reich, however, ushered in rapid change and Winifred found herself banned by a war court from running the Bayreuth Festival for passively supporting the […]
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