Reviews & Blog Posts

​2023:​
THE DAY OF THE DEATH
MAHLER AND THE RESURRECTION
TIME (DER ROSENKAVALIER & METALLICA)​

2022:​
KONIGSKINDER (A TRIUMPH IN TRISTESSE)
DER FREISCHUTZ
DAS RHEINGOLD (HIP)
UPLOAD (LIVING IN A DATA STREAM)

2021:​
DER SILBERSEE
​A (POST?) COVID PARSIFAL
​THE WRITE OF SPRING

2020:
A DESCENT INTO THE NIBELHEIM OF THE MIND
EDDIE VAN HALEN
WAGNER AT THE MOVIES
WITH MAHLER AND STRAVINSKY INTO THE NEW YEAR

2019:
THE RETURN OF DIE WALKÜRE
PAGLIACCI / CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: A GAME WITH REALITY IN ITALIAN VERISMO
(NO) BAYREUTH (SUMMER BLOG)
TANNHAUSER: WHAT'S ON A MAN'S MIND
ABOUT EXTREME MUSIC
DIE TOTE STADT
HELMUT LACHENMANN IN THE MOZART SANDWICH

2018:
OEDIPE: IS MAN STRONGER THAN FATE?
ONE MORE ... (RING CYCLE)
MARNIE: OPERA & PICTURES
THE HALLOWEEN TOP 10
​JENUFA: ICE-COLD REALITY IN WARM-BLOODED MUSIC
MY PARSIFAL CONDUCTOR: A WAGNERIAN COMEDY
LOHENGRIN: IN THE EMPIRE OF THE SWAN
DIE ZAUBERFLÖTE IN A ROLLER COASTER
PARSIFAL IN BAYREUTH
HEAVY SUMMER (THE ROAD TO PARSIFAL)
LOHENGRIN IN SCREENSHOTS
LESSONS IN LOVE AND VIOLENCE
BERLIN/BLOG: FAUST & THE CLAWS OF TIME
THE GAMBLER: RUSSIAN ROULETTE WITH PROKOFIEV
BACH/BLOG#1: THE ROAD TO LEIPZIG
BACH/BLOG#2: BACHFEST LEIPZIG
BACH/BLOG#3: JOHANNES PASSION & MORE
DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER, WAGNER & DRACULA
THE CHRISTINA CYCLUS OF KLAS TORSTENSSON
LA CLEMENZA DI TITO: MOZART ÜBER ALLES
BRUCKNER AND THE ORGAN
GURRE-LIEDER: THE SECOND COMING
PARSIFAL IN FLANDERS: REIGN IN BLOOD
TRISTAN & ISOLDE AND THE IMPOSSIBLE EMBRACE
DANIELE GATTI & BRUCKNER'S NINTH

2017:
ON THE BIRTHDAY OF LUDWIG (BEETHOVEN'S MIGHTY NINE)
THE DINNER PARTY FROM HELL 
ZEMLINSKY & PUCCINI: A FLORENTINE DIPTYCH
VENI, VIDI, VICI
ELIOGABALO (HERE COMES THE SUN KING)
LA FORZA DEL DESTINO
DAS WUNDER DER HELIANE
'EIN WUNDER' TO LOOK FORWARD TO
EIN HOLLÄNDER IN BAYREUTH
FRANZ LISZT IN BAYREUTH
SALOME & THE WALKING DEAD
LOHENGRIN IN HOLLAND

2016:
WAGNER WEEKEND
THE SUMMER OF 2016
PARSIFAL IN SCREENSHOTS (BAYREUTH 2016)
BEING TCHAIKOVSKY
GUSTAVO & GUSTAV: DUDAMEL & MAHLER
HAITINK & BRUCKNER: A NEVER-ENDING STORY
DAVID BOWIE
FOR LEMMY AND BOULEZ
BOULEZ IST TOT

2015:
LEMMY - ROCK IN PEACE
THE BATTLE: WHO'S THE BETTER LOHENGRIN?
STOCKHAUSEN AND HEAVY METAL
FRANZ LISZT IN THE FUNNY PAPERS
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
DER ROSENKAVALIER
SOLTI'S RING AND BAYREUTH IN 1976
EASTER CHANT
BOULEZ TURNS 90
HOLY TINNITUS
FRANZ LISZT IN THE PHOT-O-MATIC
THE HOLY GRAIL
FRANZ LISZT - ROCK STAR AVANT LA LETTRE

2014:
THE BEST THEATER EXPERIENCE IN MY LIFE