Extra! Extra! Wagner's 'Parsifal' makes front page news -- in 1905
Extra! Extra! Wagner's 'Parsifal' makes front page news -- in 1905OregonLive.com"On April 7, 1905, the Metropolitan Opera company brought Parsifal to the Grand Opera House on Mission Street, in San Francisco. The San Francisco Call devoted almost its entire front page to the spectacle." "The provincial imagination refuses the task ...
RIP Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Herbert Breslin
RIP Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Herbert BreslinWashington Post (blog)(ddp images/AP Photo) Foto: ddp images/AP/AP (ddp images/AP - DDP IMAGES) I didn't get to hear Fischer-Dieskau live very often, but one occasion I remember was a concert performance of Wagner's “Parsifal” in Munich in the late 1980s, when he, ...and more »
Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta
Loro Piana Superyacht Regatta - Spectacular sailing in Porto CervoSail WorldThree monolithic sailing yachts will be sure to draw attention: the 45-metre Salperton, designed by Dubois and built by New Zealand shipyard Fitzroy, the 53.8 metre Parsifal III and Twizzle which, measuring 57.5 metres (188.6 feet), is the largest of ...
Indian artist Anish Kapoor creates sculpture for London Olympics
Indian artist Anish Kapoor creates sculpture for London OlympicsThe NationalHis sets for Parsifal, Wagner's solemn opera about the quest for the Holy Grail, will premiere in Amsterdam next month. Most recently he has been in New York, where two of his massive new pieces, one made of thousands of pieces of concrete, ...
Tristan und Isolde, Welsh National Opera
Tristan und Isolde, Welsh National OperaThe Arts DeskIts Meistersinger of two summers ago is already the stuff of legend (and alas not likely to return to reality); farther back one recalls a more than respectable Parsifal, a notable Ring cycle, and an old Tristan under Goodall that's still talked about ...and more »