In the following essay, Kilbourn discusses the theme of redemption via the “conjunction of love and death” in Wagner's Tristan und Isolde.
This discussion of Wagner's Tr...
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A strike by La Scala's 800 workers forced the opera house on Thursday to cancel a second performance of Verdi's "Requiem" led by principal visiting conductor Daniel Barenboim."Requiem" was to have ...
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No costumes. No scenery. Just pure music.Only the orchestra shared the stage with the singers Sunday, and there was not a spear or helmet in sight. With such limitations, this performance of excerp...
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An opera by Richard Wagner — whose music and anti-Semitic writings influenced Adolf Hitler — will be performed at an open-air theater built under the Nazis by an orchestra made up of Is...
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Dec 7 (Reuters) - Milan's La Scala opera house, whose
history is intertwined with Italy's, launches its 2007-2008
season with Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" with Daniel Barenboim
picking up the bat...
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As a journalist who covered everything from race riots to Supreme Court nominations before turning to cultural subjects, I sometimes wonder whether writing about the glories of classical music isn&...
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The Metropolitan Opera hopes to tour China for the first time, negotiating to perform Tan Dun's "The First Emperor" there with tenor Placido Domingo to coincide with the 2008 Beijing Olympics.As pa...
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The Metropolitan Opera hopes to tour China for the first time, negotiating to perform Tan Dun's "The First Emperor" there with tenor Placido Domingo to coincide with the 2008 Beijing Olympics.As pa...
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Images of fire, floods and even naked bodies flash on a giant video screen above the stage as the concert hall fills with the sounds of Richard Wagner's doomed lovers playing out their tragic story...
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Today is Sunday, June 10, the 161st day of 2007. There are 204 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:One hundred years ago, on June 10, 1907, 11 men in five cars set out from the Frenc...
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Daniel Barenboim and his fellow musicians received shouts of "bravi" after the open dress rehearsal, but the ticket-buying public won't get to enjoy Verdi's "Requiem" on Friday: La Scala's 800 empl...
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Critical Essay by R. J. A. Kilbourn
La Scala strike cancels second concert
