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Showing posts with label Wagner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wagner. Show all posts
Monday, October 8, 2012

The German Opera Project: “Wagner’s Dream” (VIFF 2012)

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It’s nice to know that in parts of North America, high culture can still be a big deal. In the fall of 2010, New York was in a furor when ...
Monday, July 11, 2011

Random Acts of Culture, #1

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Tovey and the VSO (source: The Georgia Straight) It’s often said, at least in North America, that the higher arts are inaccessible to ...
Tuesday, June 7, 2011

The German Opera Project: Wagner's Ring in San Francisco

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Achtung, Ring nuts! It would be remiss of the Blogger not to advise all of you who have been following my self-directed German Opera Pr...
Wednesday, May 4, 2011

The German Opera Project: Maiden Voyage

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I made it through part one. How was my first experience? My first question, if you recall from my first post , was: where were the Viking ...
Tuesday, May 3, 2011

The German Opera Project: Go Big Or Go Home

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Hyper Smash As a child, I saw the classic Looney Tunes animated short “What’s Opera, Doc?” It was my first introduction to high culture,...
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