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Peter Sellars and Teodor Currentzis  join forces to remake Mozart's last opera in their own image. The recitatives are cut and the score is adapted with other pieces from Mozart's oeuvre. Currentzis: "Everything we add to the music here, we do with the greatest respect and with the greatest possible love towards the composer". Read the review here >>
La Clemenza di Tito: Mozart boven alles
In 2014, The Dutch National Opera was the first to fully stage Schönberg's Late-Romantic mega cantata. This season that production has its second coming. Read the review here >>​​
De wederkomst van de Gurre-Lieder

Bruckner & the organ

A world premiere on an organ (Memories III by Jan Welmers) and Bruckner's 8th symphony >>
Anton Bruckner en de orgelman
After Der Ring des Nibelungen and Tristan und Isolde, the Nederlandse Reisopera  takes up Wagner again with the story of a man doomed to sail the world seas forever. In search for Erlösung. 

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Parsifal in Flanders: Reign in Blood

Tatjana Gürbaca - who had already taken care of Der Fliegende Holländer in Antwerp, Lohengrin in Essen and an abridged (and rebuilt) Ring des Nibelingen in Vienna (Die Ring-Trilogie!) - returns to Opera Vlaanderen with her Parsifal production from 2013 (Wagner's bicentennial). Both praised and controversial -  it all sounds very much as a recommendation. Read the review here  >>
Parsifal in Vlaanderen

Tristan & Isolde and the impossible embrace

Pierre Audi's production of Tristan und Isolde is out of this world.
Tristan & Isolde en de onmogelijkheid om te versmelten.

ABOUT

This website wants to be a musical journey from the blues-based hardrock I grew up with to the 19th century music dramas of Richard Wagner I became so enarmored with later in my life.
The music of Wagner feels, more than the music of any other (classical) composer I know, like a natural extension of the hardrock and heavy metal I grew up with. His music can be a place for the metal aficionado who might have reached a point of arrival in his or her listening experience and is receptive for something that goes beyond the sound of double bass drums and howling guitarsolos.  Something else, but something that is equally, if not more, satisfying to ears and soul. For me Richard Wagner was the door to new worlds of sound. A guide on a journey through a musical landscape that is still ongoing. 
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EIN  HOLLÄNDER  IN BAYREUTH​

Frank Castorf and the theater of deconstruction.
Recensies en blogs in het Nederlands 

Met La Clemenza di Tito, Gurre-Lieder, Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde en Daniele Gatti's  avonturen in Bruckners 9e symfonie. 
Verder o.a.: Richard Strauss, Gustav Mahler, Aleksandr Scriabin, Gustavo Dudamel, Bernard Haitink en Henry Rollins.
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