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“Protection. Conservation. Restriction. Deep ecology. Give me deep technology any day. They don't scare me. "I'm damned if I'll crawl, my children's children crawl on the earth in some kind a fuckin' harmony with the environment. Yeah, till the next ice age or the next asteroid impact." (Moh Kohn, The Star Fraction)/ "This is the fight between God and the Devil. If His Grace is with God, he must join me, if he is for the Devil he must fight me. There is no third way" King Gustavus Adolphus
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Saturday, October 08, 2011
Saturday Opera Blogging
Labels: Die Walkure, Hildegard Behrens, James Morris, Met Opera, The Ring Cycle, Wagner
Thursday, September 15, 2011
Thursday Opera Blogging
Labels: Das Rheingold, Götterdämmerung, Met Opera, Thursday Opera Blogging, Wagner
Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Wednesday Opera Blogging
Labels: Notung, Siegfried, Siegfried Jerusalem, Wagner, Wednesday Opera Blogging
Sunday, August 08, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Saturday Classical Music Blogging
Labels: Aida, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Das Rheingold, Herbert Von Karajan, Tanhauser, Verdi, Vorspiel, Wagner
Tuesday, July 31, 2007
Tuesday Opera Blogging
Götterdämmerung, act two
Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (Bayreuth 1976, recorded 1980)
Manfred Jung as Siegfried, Fritz Hübner as Hagen. Conducted by Pierre Boulez, directed by Patrice Chéreau. Hagen is calling people of Gibichungs to wellcome Gunther und Brünnhilde.
Götterdämmerung, act two
Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (Bayreuth 1976, recorded 1980)
Manfred Jung as Siegfried, Fritz Hübner as Hagen. Conducted by Pierre Boulez, directed by Patrice Chéreau. Hagen is calling people of Gibichungs to wellcome Gunther und Brünnhilde.
Labels: Der Ring des Nibelungen, Götterdämmerung, Wagner
Friday, July 20, 2007
Friday Opera Blogging
Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (Bayreuth, 1983)
Tristan - René Kollo, Isolde- Johanna Meier
Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde (Bayreuth, 1983)
Tristan - René Kollo, Isolde- Johanna Meier
Labels: Bayreuth, Johanna Meier, René Kollo, Tristan und Isolde, Wagner
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
Tuesday Wagner
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
Ride of the Valkries conducted by Claudio Abbado, performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker
I will always associated this piece with the dawn helicopter raid scene from Apocalypse Now.
I think there is nothing wrong with enjoying Wagner's music, sure he was probably a bad person but what musician isn't? I make the observation that a lot of great music is made by bad people, just look at Marvin Gaye (shot by his own father) or Lou Reed.
Going back to composers, how many left their wives, had affairs, took drugs, died of syphilis and so on? A fair few I imagine.
I think to be a genius at what you do you have to be slightly mad or at least not normal.
"Wagner's music is better than it sounds."
- Mark Twain's Autobiography
Ride of the Valkries conducted by Claudio Abbado, performed by the Berliner Philharmoniker
I will always associated this piece with the dawn helicopter raid scene from Apocalypse Now.
I think there is nothing wrong with enjoying Wagner's music, sure he was probably a bad person but what musician isn't? I make the observation that a lot of great music is made by bad people, just look at Marvin Gaye (shot by his own father) or Lou Reed.
Going back to composers, how many left their wives, had affairs, took drugs, died of syphilis and so on? A fair few I imagine.
I think to be a genius at what you do you have to be slightly mad or at least not normal.
Labels: Berliner Philharmoniker, Claudio Abbado, Valkries, Wagner