Wagner Opera: Robert Lepage’s Siegfried at the Met

Wagner Opera: Robert Lepage’s Siegfried at the Met: In part three of Metropolitan Opera's new Ring production by Robert Lepage, Wagner’s cosmic vision focuses on his hero’s early conquests, while Robert Lepage’s revolutionary stage machine transforms itself from bewitched forest to mountaintop love nest. Jay Hunter Morris sings the title role and Deborah Voigt’s Brünnhilde is his prize. Bryn Terfel is the Wanderer. Fabio Luisi conducts.

http://wagneropera.blogspot.com/2011/11/robert-lepages-siegfried-premieres-on.html

Siegfried - A Máquina

Notícias do MET, via VALQUIRIO:
valkirio: Siegfried - A Máquina: Cena final d' A Valquíria A máquina voltou a fazer das suas . (...) At the performance on Tuesday night a malfunction prevented the set from creating the proper configuration for the final scene between the title character and Brünnhilde, when Siegfried awakens her from sleep amid perpetual fire around her and they sing a love duet, the Met said in a statement.
The singers, Jay Hunter Morris and Deborah Voigt, performed the scene in an area at the front of the stage. (...)

http://valkirio.blogspot.com/2011/11/siegfried-maquina.html

O Navio Fantasma em 1843

Primeira representação de Der fliegende Holländer (The Flying Dutchman) em Dresden 1843


(Fonte: Leipziger Illustrierte Zeitung, 3 Janeiro 1843)

Max Lorenz e Wagner

Max Lorenz (1901-1975). Parsifal.

Tannhäuser em Bayreuth (2011)

Este ano, o Tannhäuser em Bayreuth excedeu todas as medidas...

«Bayreuth’s Tannhäuser: Recycled Trash

Newsflash: Wartburg is a world-wide recycling company, at one with the universe, wherein everything and everyone exists in a perfectly sustainable environment.»

http://www.operatoday.com/content/2011/08/bayreuths_tannh.php

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

Parabéns, Mr. DeMille

Cecil B. DeMille ( nascido em 12 de Agosto de 1881)
Uma efeméride injustamente esquecida.

Os Dez Mandamentos (1923)

A capa de Cine-Miroir em 1924, a propósito do filme de CecIl B. DeMille, Os Dez Mandamentos.

Tannhäuser em Bayreuth (2011)

«A pregnant Venus, a Wartburg transformed into a biogas plant breaking down organic matter, a Venusberg filled with caged subhumans right out of the original Planet of the Apes, and Wolfram von Eschenbach singing the well-known "Song to the Evening Star" while taking a dump sitting on a toilet. What does this have to do with Richard Wagner's romantic opera Tannhäuser? Nothing! As expected, the audience shook the very foundations of the Festspielhaus with their booing after the performance. The verdict? This new production by Sebastian Baumgarten scored another Bayreuth opening night triumph!»
Excerto de Vargas, Vincent  em http://wagneroperas.blogspot.com/2011/07/biogas-at-bayreuth-new-tannhauser.html

                                             Tannhäuser, Bayreuth, 2011

Samson and Delilah (1949) - posters de época

Mais um belíssimo cartaz de Samson and Delilah (1949), com Mature e Lamarr.

DEMille: Fotos

Cecil B. DeMille e Heddy Lamarr nas filmagens Samson and Delilah (1949)

Ilustrações de Wagner

Ferdinand Leeke - Wotan e Brunhilde, 1908

Ilustrações de Wagner

Ferdinad Leeke, 1859-1925,  Tannhäuser

Ilustrações de Siegfried

                                            Ferdinand Leeke, 1859 - 1925, Siegfried

DeMille: Posters

Não achei a proveniência, mas são dois belíssimos posters para O Rei dos Reis (1927) e O Sinal da Cruz (1932)

Wagner na MEDICI TV

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

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

DeMille: The Woman God Forgot (1917)

Theodore Kosloff e Natacha Rambova (Ballets Russes) numa divulgação no âmbito do aparecimento do filme The Woman God Forgot (1917) , de Cecil B. DeMille.

Cartazes de DeMille: Adam's Rib (1922)

Um belo cartaz para um filme perdido: Adam's Rib, de Cecil B. DeMille (1922)