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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San Francisco Opera | TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
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3. November 2024 | 14:30 - 17:00
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5. November 2024 | 20:00 - 22:30
Teatro alla Scala | DAS RHEINGOLD
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7. November 2024 | 20:00 - 22:30
Teatro alla Scala | DAS RHEINGOLD
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10. November 2024 | 14:30 - 17:00
Teatro alla Scala | DAS RHEINGOLD
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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…
Departure of the painter, who thanks us for the “material and moral benefits” which he received here. R. again immersed himself in the Battle of Spichern and was restless in consequence. — Yesterday evening Fidi entertained us with his account of the 12 boys (“I’ve had enough of girls”) with…
View moreYesterday I had to write to Herr Vitzthum[i] in Hanover: he had notified us of the visit of his wife (a singer) and she did not arrive—due, we suspect, to the maliciousness of the theatre manager’s wife, the composer [Ingeborg] von Bronsart[ii]. — Betz writes from Berlin and seems to have…
View moreI had a bad night and spend part of the morning resting; when I awake, I find R. at the coffee table, occupied with the Battle of Spichern; he reads some of it to me, then goes to his work. Our sgraffito is now all but finished. In the evening…
View moreR. works; I feel rather unwell and take advantage of the children’s day off work to rest and to finish Prof. Nietzsche’s fine paper. Cheerful lunch, then sent the children to the woods, R. goes to meet them, is pleased when he sees them in their Freischütz hats, and returns…
View moreR. works, and I write some letters, after having tidied things up. I caught cold on the journey and cannot do much beyond continuing to read the professor’s pamphlet, which I find really very stimulating. In the afternoon R. goes out with Fidi; in Angermann’s a stranger addresses the child:…
View moreYesterday I returned home from Dresden; I have kept no diary of my stay there, since R. was unable to accompany me. I went to see a dentist, and also to visit the Luisenstift. It made a good impression on me, and I think I shall do well to send…
View moreYour High Honor, As part of the last birthday present, I have to send the two watercolours that have only just been delivered by the painter Heigel and furthermore, on the highest order, to communicate the following: 1. Thank you very much from His Majesty the King for your beautiful…
View moreMaking provisions for my departure tomorrow, R. is complaining about it and making more difficult what is already difficult enough for me! But I cannot give it up, and I now close this book with its account of the fulfillment of a maternal duty. From September 16, 1873, to October…
View moreR. did not have a good night and has to write letters in the morning, which always upsets him. Yesterday a telegram arrived from friend Richter, announcing his engagement; we congratulate him all the more joyfully since he is said to have chosen a good and pretty girl from a…
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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…
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