Richard Wagner in Salzburg
In Salzburg Richard Wagner only spent one night in the pouring rain. Why there is still a Richard Wagner Gesellschaft, read here:
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Bayreuther Festspiele | PARSIFAL
27. July 2024 | 16:00 - 22:00 h
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27. July 2024 | 20:15 - 28. July 2024 | 12:40 h
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Tiroler Festspiele Erl | GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
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BR Klassik | DAS RHEINGOLD | Bayreuther Festspiele
28. July 2024 | 17:57 - 21:00 h
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Bayreuther Festspiele | DAS RHEINGOLD
28. July 2024 | 18:00 - 21:30 h
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27. July 2024 | 20:15 - 28. July 2024 | 12:40 h
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Glyndebourne Festival | TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
29. July 2024 | 14:45 - 20:15 h
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Bayreuther Festspiele | DIE WALKÜRE
29. July 2024 | 16:00 - 22:00 h
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Today 150 years ago
The road to the first Bayreuth Festival in diary entries and letters.
The first Bayreuth Festival took place on August 13, 1876. The road to get there was rocky, full of setbacks. At that time Cosima and Richard built a theater, a house, chased money and raised 5 children. Both had extensive correspondence and Cosima wrote diary entries almost every day.
Oh yes – and Richard orchestrated the Götterdämmerung…
R. works; in the afternoon, to please the children, a drive to the Fantaisie. In the evening continued Pericles. I very tired.
View moreDeparture of Richter, the. children in mourning rags, tears and wailing, Rus as the funeral horse! — Recently Herr Hill, who lived for a long time in Frankfurt, told us about Schopenhauer— how every day in the Englischer Hof he would put a gold coin on the table in front…
View moreWhile I was attending to various things outside, R. had to deal with some domestic difficulties, and that brings us after lunch to talk about all sorts of things concerning the world and the artist, his absent-mindedness with regard to the realities of life. In this connection he tells me…
View moreThe whole day and evening devoted to Herr Hill; R. reminds me that I had remarked, after the first few bars he sang in Schwerin, “This is the most remarkable of them all.” An unusually powerful personality with great fire—-in short, all the qualities which R. needs. — He complained…
View morePaid some (card) calls. Strange mood in spite of all my activity—it finds, expression in my taking up my old favorite Eugenie de Guerin again. One could scarcely imagine a calling as different from mine as hers, and yet no one lies as close to my heart as this Breton…
View moreWorked with Lusch, R. on his score, is pleased with the salon, unfortunately not an unalloyed pleasure, since domestic difficulties are increasing. In the evening Frau Grün again comes over from Coburg; she sings “Brünnhilde’s Awakening,” which causes a certain amount of embarrassment, since she cannot sing Brünnhilde.
View moreFrau v. Schleinitz sends us a photograph of the Menzel water color sold in support of Bayreuth: very peculiar! — R. works; no further news about singers; domestic unpleasantnesses; in the evening rehearsed Gunther with Herr Alexis. (Wrote to my father.)
View moreR. reads me the printed letter of an unnamed leading figure in the Catholic party to a French bishop, which sounds really ominous for Germany. In this connection R. quotes Cromwell’s words to his soldiers at Worcester: “Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry.” We stay at…
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200 Jahre Anton Bruckner
Bruckner & Wagner
200 JAHRE ANTON BRUCKNER
The Essential Bruckner Project is a preview, a "heads up", announcing the completion in the coming months of a performance and concert recording cycle of the complete Bruckner Symphonies ( including the "Nullte") in all known versions. In 2010 a recording series was released on Sony of the 10 Bruckner…
View moreBruckner composed a total of eleven symphonies: the so-called „Study Symphony“ in F minor (WAB 99), the annulled symphony in D minor (WAB 100) and the works known today as numbers I to IX (WAB 101 to 109). Except for the final one in D minor (WAB 109) all the…
View moreOnly about 20 km from the regional capital city of Linz lies St. Florian, a market town with about 6000 inhabitants in the heart of Upper Austria. After a short trip, visitors arriving in this tranquil place are treated to quite a sight: the impressive Augustinian monastery St. Florian –…
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