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Love’s Dark Shore
How apt that in the week of Valentine’s Day, between performances of Tristan und Isolde, a paean to love, that the Canadian Opera Company should present a concert program titled “Love’s Dark Shore” i… more →
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If you weren't dead you'd be 200!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY WAGNER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
wrote 4 days ago: Next Wednesday, the 22nd of May is Richard Wagner’s 200th birthday, but as there are a heap of … more →
The “Tristan Chord”
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wrote 1 week ago: I like music that challenges me. When composers take risks with tone and cadence, they invite the l … more →
"Barenboim and the Wagner Taboo"
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wrote 2 months ago: A week ago I posted a poem named “We Walk on the Bridge” of Mahmoud Darwish, the major a … more →
AVAILABLE NOW: O'Riley's Liszt
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wrote 2 months ago: O’Riley’s Liszt – 2-CD set O’Riley’s Liszt – Blu-ray Video/Audio … more →
wrote 2 months ago: The distention of tonality, the watching-it-in-action, does not occur, as people commonly presume, i … more →
La poetica delle stelle
wrote 2 months ago: di Armando Minuz “Melancholia” regia di Lars Von Trier, Danimarca-Germania-Francia-Svezi … more →
A Reply to an Operatic Provocation in Toronto’s National Post
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wrote 2 months ago: On February 22, the National Post carried an article under the title of La Demenza Dell Opera by the … more →
If Music be the Food of Love: Tristan und Isolde
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wrote 2 months ago: Ok, so while there is certainly a passionate love story involved in the Celtic legend of Tristan and … more →
Tristan and Isolde
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wrote 2 months ago: Last weekend I went to see Tristan and Isolde at the magnificent Four Seasons Centre in downtown Tor … more →
I had already been to Europe, and liked it, so I thought I'd go back. I chose Germany, and they in their wisdom sent me to Japan
wrote 3 months ago: Aware of Henze’s hostility towards much Wagner, his librettist WH Auden had coaxed him very much in … more →
On First Looking Into Wagner's 'Tristan und Isolde'
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wrote 3 months ago: In 1852, after unceremoniously abandoning his position as conductor of the Dresden Opera, Richard Wa … more →
Concert Roundup is for Lovers
wrote 3 months ago: It’s Valentine’s Day week – does your idea of passion involve waving your arms aro … more →
Love’s Dark Shore
wrote 3 months ago: How apt that in the week of Valentine’s Day, between performances of Tristan und Isolde, a paean to … more →
Yukio Mishima - Patriotism. The Rite of Love and Death
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Berlioz, Wagner, love
wrote 3 months ago: January 16th I promised to explore connections between Berlioz’s Les Troyens (an opera I’d been obse … more →
Lifelong Love 2. Tristan und Isolde
wrote 3 months ago: Wagner Tristan und Isolde. Needs no explanation. I played it countless times. Hard work in the LP er … more →
10 Questions for Franz-Josef Selig
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wrote 3 months ago: German bass Franz-Josef Selig is making his Canadian Opera Company debut as King Marke in Wagner … more →
Richard Wagner - Liebestod
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Clemenza: Apollo’s Turn
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wrote 3 months ago: After a week of thinking about Tristan und Isolde –at the COC, in the Opera Exchange, at the piano a … more →
