As the Bayreuth festival turns 150, we look at the composer’s huge and enduring influence, and wonder what might have happened to classical music in his absence?
One hundred and fifty years ago this s…
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Weimar by Katja Hoyer review – the town that changed Germany ⊕
It was the birthplace of the liberal tradition, but also the incubator for Nazism – what can this historic city tell us about democracy?
‘Weimar is Germany in a nutshell,” 1990s president Roman Herzog…
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Harnoncourt: Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schumann album review – revelatory readings from the late revolutionary ⊕
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This 1999 live recording captures the late conductor’s radical ear in bracing Mendelssohn, gossamer Wagner and a luminous Liebestod – from Violeta U…
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From the sacred to the profane: the Wagners, Bayreuth and Parsifal ○
Wagner’s final opera comes to Glyndebourne this week. Why will the composer and his wife be turning in their graves? Michael Downes looks at the family’s attempts to keep Parsifal in Bayreuth
When Gly…
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