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Verbier Festival Celebrates a Star-Studded 20th Anniversary
A couple of days late, but..."Happy birthday to you, / Happy birthday to you, / Happy birthday dear Verbier Festival, / Happy birthday to you!" -
Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Leith Hill Place Open for Visitors, but for How Long?
And now, fans of Ralph Vaughan Williams--with Elgar, the most venerated English composer pre-Britten and post-Purcell--have their own shrine to visit. The U.K.'s National Trust has finally opened Leith Hill Place... -
Wagner @ Bayreuth: What to Make of Frank Castorf's 'Ring'...Overall?
Richard Wagner made hand grenades for the 1849 Dresden uprising, so maybe he would have cheered the tumultuous end of his 200th birthday 'Ring Cycle' in Bayreuth, a production that has raised questions over his heirs running the festival. -
Wagner @ Bayreuth: Frank Castorf's 'Götterdämmerung' Booed Out of Bayreuth
The gods did not go up in flames, but the audience erupted in a fury of booing on Wednesday night as an unorthodox new staging of Richard Wagner's 'Ring Cycle' for his 200th birthday at his opera house in Bayreuth came to a near-riotous... -
BREAKING: U.K.'s 'Independent on Sunday' Reportedly Axes its Critics
The role of reviewers in today's society has been further degraded today by the U.K.'s Independent On Sunday newspaper, which has--our colleague Norman Lebrecht reports at his Slipped Disc blog--just made almost all of its critics...
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