Bayreuth 2012

Para o ano, em Bayreuth, a principal novidade parece ser a nova encenação de O Navio Fantasma, com direcção musical de Christian Thielemann.

«La principal de ellas será la nueva producción de El holandés errante, que podrá disfrutarse en seis representaciones a partir del 25 de julio de 2012, día de inicio del Festival. La labor escénica ha sido encargada al joven director alemán Jan Philipp Gloger, de treinta años, que se acerca por primera vez al universo wagneriano. De hecho, su labor se ha desarrollado principalmente en el mundo del teatro (Brecht, Goethe, Shakespeare, Schiller, Camus…) y no fue hasta el pasado año cuando hizo su debut en la lírica con Las bodas de Fígaro, de Mozart, en el Teatro de Augsburgo.»

http://www.wagnermania.com/noticias/noticias.asp?id=091101

O Ring em 3D

'Ring' cycle, including 3-D 'Siegfried,' dominates Metropolitan Opera's new season
« The Metropolitan Opera's 2011-12 season will be dominated by its new production of Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle, including "Siegfried" and "Götterdämmerung" as well as three complete cycles scheduled for April and May 2012. The company said "Siegfried" will feature 3-D technology as part of the production's digital video projections.»

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/02/ring-cycle-including-3d-siegfried-dominates-metropolitan-operas-2011-12-season.html

Notícias Antigas

From The Times
September 14, 2009

The South Bank Show: The Wagner Family; The Last Nazis; Spiral

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6833756.ece

Ilustrações de Wagner

Ferdinad Leeke, 1859-1925,  Tannhäuser

Ilustrações de Siegfried

                                            Ferdinand Leeke, 1859 - 1925, Siegfried

Wagner na MEDICI TV

Para ouvir a música do mestre, há um canal que está sempre de serviço.

http://www.medici.tv/#!/search/wagner/

Cenários originais para Bayreuth

Siegfried encontra o Viajante. Siegfried, Acto III., Cena 2.
(Sketch do cenário original usado em Bayreuth, por J.Hoffmann.)

Na Wagner Library encontra-se muito material de sketches de cenários originais das óperas de Wagner. Podem ir até lá em: http://users.belgacom.net/wagnerlibrary/articles/scrib0205.htm

O Anel do Nibelungo em S. Francisco

                                                            As filhas do Reno

Mais uma cidade que se chega à frente nas produções de O Anel do Nibelungo, desta vez foi S. Francisco. Parece que foi uma produção muito apreciada...
Sigam o link:
http://www.operatoday.com/content/2011/07/der_ring_des_ni.php

Ilustrações de Parsifal

Ilustrações de William Pogany (1882-1955) para Parsifal

Nascido na Hungria em 1882, Pogany veio para a América em 1915, via Paris, onde esteve dois anos e Londres, onde esteve 10 anos. Pelo caminho estabeleceu-se como ilustrador de livros. Em Londres produziu as suas obras-primas:   The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1910), baseado em Coleridge,  e  Tannhauser (1911), Parsifal (1912) e Lohengrin (1913). Cada obra foi desenhada e executada por Pogany, desde as capas e contra-capas , à caligrafia manual, até às várias técnicas  empregues - pincel e tinta, lápis, aguarela. A trilogia Wagneriana foi publicada numa variedade de encadernações todas elas ornamentadas. Uma beleza!!!!

Richard Wagner na obra de William Pogany

Willy Pogany(1882-1955 - ilustrador húngaro) , Parsifal, 1912, ilustração

William Pogany, Tannhäuser ( ilustração)

Wagner no The New York Times

Do

Artigos sobre Richard Wagner no The New York Times

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/w/richard_wagner/index.html?scp=1-spot&sq=richard%20wagner&st=cse

Richard Wagner teórico

Artigo muito interessante sobre Richard Wagner, Beethoven, Schopenhauer e Nietzsche.

O Beethoven-Schrift: Richard Wagner teórico

The Beethoven-Schrift: theoretical Richard Wagner

Henry Burnett

http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-31732009000100010

Caricaturas de Wagner

Título original: Richard Wagner killing the dragon of criticism in Siegfried style is shown. "Royalties" surround the body of the dead animal. This is a cartoon by C.V. Grimm.

Wagner e os Judeus

À esquerda, Richard Wagner and the Jews.A obra foi publicada em 2006, pela MacFarland. O autor é Milton E. Brener.

http://books.google.pt/books?id=C6E_y1bESBYC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

    
Em baixo, mais uma caricatura do lado anti-semita do grande compositor, num desenho bem oitocentista. Em baixo também, o link para um artigo sobre o anti-semitismo do compositor....

http://www.jstandard.com/index.php/content/item/richard_wagner/

Estudos sobre Wagner

Não possuo a obra, mas já se percebeu que Scruton é um especialista...

Roger Scruton sobre Wagner III

Mais um artigo de Scruton sobre Wagner

Paul Heise’s Interpretation of Wagner’s Ring Cycle.

Roger Scruton.

http://www.wagnerheim.com/show/introduction-roger-scruton

Eis um excerto do texto de Scruton:
(...)«No composer has ever been more of a philosopher than Richard Wagner, and in none of his works is Wagner more philosophical than in the The Ring of the Nibelung. In this work – surely the greatest drama composed in modern times – Wagner attempts to convey a picture of the human condition that will identify the origins of good and evil, the place of man in the cosmos, and the secret source of human freedom.» (...)

Roger Scruton sobre Wagner II

February 2005

Wagner: moralist or monster?
by Roger Scruton
In: The New Criterion

Eis um interessante excerto do artigo:
(...)
«The Wagner presented by Köhler is a figure damaged from the earliest age by an unloving mother and usurping stepfather, but consoled during childhood and adolescence by the tender love of a favorite sister. Wagner idealized this sister as the good anima of his dreams, and wandered through adult life in the hope of meeting her. Her role was to redeem him, to assuage all guilt, suffering and rejection by sacrificing herself on the altar of his need—and all this not only as a sister but also as a lover and a bride. » (...)

http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/wagner-moralist-or-monster-1235

Wagner na pintura

A Musa, Henri Fantin-Latour, 1862
( um grande wagneriano francês)

Um Filme de 1913 sobre Wagner

Há um biopic de 1913 sobre Richard Wagner....
A realização é de Carl Froelich, o argumento deWilliam Wauer e os
intérpretes são Giuseppe Becce, Olga Engl e Manny Ziener.

«Now an earlier biopic - and one of the earliest of the genre - has emerged and was shown on Monday at the National Film Theatre: Richard Wagner, made in 1913. Wagner was played by Giuseppe Becce, himself a minor composer (who also provided the score, played live on the first showings), and the film was directed by Carl Froelich and William Wauer. Film grammar was still being developed when the film was made, and it follows the then usual practice of preceding each scene with a subtitle explaining what is to follow: the scenes are shot in long sections with a static camera and minimal, or sometimes no, cutting (and no dialogue subtitles): this makes it look a bit wooden to modern eyes, but it is well staged and constructed - and for the most part free of the over-acting common to many early films.»

Há dois links que falam sumariamente do assunto, mas vale a pena ler.

http://homepage.mac.com/rfwilmut/iblog/C2072643376/E20071004101901/index.html

http://filmguide.lafilmfest.com/tixSYS/2010/xslguide/eventnote.php?EventNumber=4390&notepg=

O Festival de Wagner - Wels, Áustria

Tristão e Isolda

«In 1983 the family Just-Doppler acquired the Wels’ hotel Greif with its integrated theatre. Renovating the gem and bringing the stage up to date, Walter Just, the founder of the Trodat-firm and a enthusiastic Wagner admirer, discovered the aforementioned little recess: without doubt this special place was perfect for a Richard Wagner’s bust. (...) The bust was celebrated with a Wagner Concert, which was a tremendous success and the booster detonation to the following. No-one had expected it to become such a great international success.

Systematically and with a lot of love the Wagner project was developed in Wels, the city where Hans Sachs, the main character from „Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“, spend a few years. After the opening concert in 1989 in the presence of the director of the Bayreuth Festival , Wolfgang Wagner, the initiators decided to organise a gala every year. The splendid celebrations were supported by renowned singers such as Theo Adam, Lisbeth Balslev, Simon Estes, Reiner Goldberg, Sabine Hass, Janis Martin, Uta Priew, Hans Sotin, Bernd Weikl, Heinz Zednik and many others. Finally the prominent stage designer Günther Schneider-Siemssen encouraged the initiators to organise scenical performances. As a result in 1995 “Tristan und Isolde” was performed - with unprecedented success. The audience rush was so huge that the production was repeated the following two years. Other operas like „Die Walküre“, „Siegfried“, „Parsifal“, „Der fliegende Holländer“ and "Lohengrin" followed.»
http://www.wagner-festival-wels.com/en/index.html