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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Midlife is the perfect time to start trail running – here’s how to get into it ⊕⊕
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An increasing number of people are finding trail running relatively late in life – and they’re reaping the health benefits
Earlier this year, 62-year-old Karla Wagner placed second in the 100-mile div…
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What links My Fair Lady, Boy on a Dolphin and West Side Story? The Saturday quiz ⊕⊕
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From Akkadian and Babylonian to ‘ancient, morbid and toxic’, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz
1 The UK’s video recorders were reset in 1997 in advance of what?
2 Which tree is described by t…
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‘Really entertaining in a horrible way’: the indestructible appeal of Tosca ⊕
With its screams, sex, bells and bloodshed Puccini’s opera was initially derided as a noisy disaster. Ahead of Glyndebourne’s first ever production, we look the ‘shabby little shocker’ that’s become …
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen album review – Luisi has a keen sense of the operatic architecture ⊕⊕
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Captured live in concert performances, Fabio Luisi’s clear-sighted command and strong orchestral playing make this Wagner set freque…
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Giving and misgivings: opera managers must choose their poison ○
Opera needs big money: opera chiefs need big donors. New York’s Metropolitan Opera has just lost a $200m investment, but should it have accepted it in the first place?
Opera’s stories of power aren’t …
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Russia claims its Africa Corps group prevented coup in Mali after rebels seize towns ⊖⊖
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Kremlin-controlled paramilitaries also alleged it inflicted ‘irreplaceable losses’ on insurgents avoiding civilian casualties
Russia’s defence ministry has claimed its Africa Corps – the successor to …
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‘We want people on the edge of their seats’: Royal Opera boss Oliver Mears on the new season – and the controversies of the last ⊕⊕
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…
‘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…