KÖNIGSKINDER: A TRIUMPH IN TRISTESSE
As in Engelbert Humperdinck's success opera, Hänsel und Gretel, Königskinder brings two children and a witch to the stage. But unlike in Hänsel und Gretel, in Königskinder humans are the real evil. Read more about Christof Loy's production here >>>
AN EVENING WITH DER FREISCHÜTZ
In his production of DER FREISCHÜTZ for the Dutch National Opera, Kirill Serebrennikov takes a rigorous approach, resulting in a surprisingly successful show that in all its exuberance celebrates the freedom of theatre and the beauty of music. >>>
COSIMA's DIARIES ON TWITTER
On January 1, 1869, a few weeks after leaving her husband Hans von Bülow to live with Richard Wagner, Cosima began a diary that she would continue until February 12, 1883, the day before Wagner died. You can find a collection of diary excerpts in this string of tweets. >>>
UPLOAD (LIVING IN A DATA STREAM)
Michel van Aa’s latest opera UPLOAD explores the transhuman existence. A life in cyberspace without the burden of a physical body. Homo Deus in the Blockchain. >>>
A DESCENT INTO THE NIBELHEIM OF THE MIND
WAGNER & HEAVY METAL on music & books.
From ' HEAVY' (Dan Franklin) to a heavy book 'WAGNERISM' (Alex Ross). Plus Wilhelm Furtwängler in Italy and (a lot) more. >>> WAGNER AT THE MOVIES
Toying around with image and sound. Combining the music of Richard Wagner with film footage. >>>
THE DAY OF WAGNER & HEAVY METAL
BEETHOVEN's MIGHTY NINE
He would have entered his 253nd year of life, were it not that he left our earthly realms at the age of 56. Without new music by Ludwig van Beethoven for almost two centuries now, all we are left with is more of the same, in different versions. From Furtwängler to Chailly; this is an inventory, guaranteed subjective and by no means complete, of Ludwig's symphony cycles. >>>
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ABOUTThis 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 enamored 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. Join in and enjoy the ride ... - Wouter de Moor 
Recensies en blogs in het Nederlands Met Königskinder van Engelbert Humperdinck en Der Freischütz van Kirill Serebrennikov. Plus UPLOAD van Michel van der Aa (science fiction in een operahuis). Verder in het archief: Pagliacci / Cavalleria Rusticana en Tannhäuser van De Nationale Opera, Die Tote Stadt van De Nederlandse Reisopera, Lohengrin in Vlaanderen en Parsifal in Bayreuth. ++ een Vliegende Hollander die Dracula ontmoet, Aleksandr Scriabin en het einde van de wereld, en de nimmer opdrogende spraakwaterval Henry Rollins. |
