Wagnerites rejoice! Parsifal and the climax of Barrie Kosky’s acclaimed Ring cycle are in the pipeline. The director of opera talks about scoring a bullseye, the storms that rocked last season – and …
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‘Siegfried wants to have fun, kill the dragon, meet the girl’: Andreas Schager on Wagner’s young bully ○
The Austrian tenor is making his Royal Opera debut as Siegfried in the third instalment of of the Ring Cycle. He explains why operetta prepared him for the opera’s epic demands, and why Wagner’s lout…
32 days ago
‘Villages are burned, animals slaughtered. We have to let the world know what’s happening’: Tinariwen and Imarhan fight for Tuareg music ⊖⊖
Tinariwen went from Saharan weddings to Grammy-winning acclaim – but violence has forced the desert blues masters into exile. Now, a new generation is stepping in to help
Since their formation in 1979…
40 days ago
Lise Davidsen and James Baillieu: Live at the Met album review – electrifying renditions make the momentous intimate ⊕
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Davidsen/Baillieu
Recorded in New York in 2023, the soprano sings Strauss, Wagner, Grieg and more to thrilling effect, her sincerity and passion matched perfectly on piano
Lise Davidsen and Jame…
46 days ago
Harnoncourt: Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schumann album review – revelatory readings from the late revolutionary ⊕
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European Chamber Orchestra/Harnoncourt/Urmana
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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…
54 days ago
‘Balding, rawhide-lean, just under six feet tall’: the real life soldier behind Robert Duvall’s Apocalypse Now role ⊕
‘Air cavalry’ commander John B Stockton was the inspiration behind Duvall’s napalm-sniffing Lt Col Kilgore in Francis Ford Coppola’s Vietnam war epic
The actor Robert Duvall, who died this week, is kn…
55 days ago
Couple in their nineties uncover shocking detail on marriage certificate after ancestry records search ○
Ed Wagner, 95, and his wife Sally, 92, had planned to mark their diamond anniversary this week - until their son-in-law uncovered their official marriage certificate.
57 days ago
Russia Uses Ex-Wagner Operatives to Recruit 'Disposable' Saboteurs in Europe – FT ⊕
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Senior European intelligence officials called the former Wagner personnel an “effective — if crude” tool for the GRU.
62 days ago
Hart To Hart star Robert Wagner turns 96... three months after the anniversary of his wife Natalie Wood's drowning death ○
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Wagner had a big Hollywood career that began in the 1950s with films such as The Happy Years. He didn't find big fame until 1979 when he played Jonathan Hart in Hart To Hart.
74 days ago
Bionic Woman star Lindsay Wagner, 76, poses with Six Million Dollar Man actor Lee Majors, 86, for the first time in years, see them now ⊖
Wagner, 76, starred on the Bionic Woman and Majors, 86, was on The Six Million Dollar Man. Often their characters Jaime Sommers and Steve Austin appeared on each other's shows.