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Bayreuth trims 150th anniversary festival, citing budget cuts

The Bayreuth Festival has dropped four productions from its 150th anniversary season in 2026 because of budget cuts

The Independent UK

Chilly Gonzales at the Albert Hall review: music's cult hero triumphs with Jarvis Cocker as his Private Dancer

5/5 The cult musician welcomes special guests but reinforces his own superstar status with an unpredictable, funny and virtuoso performance

Evening Standard

Groping, greed and the lust for great power: what Wagner’s Ring Cycle tells us about Trump v Harris

US politics may lack swords and spears, dragons and talking birds, but Wagner’s tale of money, power, rivalry and grudges still carries striking parallels with the US elections

The Guardian - UK

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Male bonding doesn’t have to be about bravado and bros. Dancing on stage naked taught me a better way

Friendships based on sport and alcohol don’t always allow us to be our true selves. Shared vulnerabilities enrich our lives, says Swedish writer Gunnar Ardelius

The Guardian - UK

Wagner in Auckland: can performing a famously antisemitic composer hit the right note in 2024?

Whenever the music of Richard Wagner is performed, the composer’s famously antisemitic views come back into sharper focus. With a harrowing conflict in the Middle East and rising antisemitism elsewhere, the “Wagner question” is almost inevitable.

The Conversation

Brian Cox hopes new Classic FM show will get listeners looking at the universe

He will join Global’s Classic FM station to host his first Saturday show from 9pm to 10pm for six weeks.

The Independent UK

Simone Young to be first Australian conductor to perform at Bayreuth festival in 147-year history

The Australian conductor will also be the first woman to perform the Ring cycle at the annual celebration of Wagner since it began in 1876

The Guardian - AU

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Bayreuth Festival to have three women conductors, three years after gender barrier broken

The Bayreuth Festival will have three female conductors this summer, three years after the podium gender barrier was broken at the annual showcase of Richard Wagner’s operas

The Independent UK

Richard Franklin obituary

Actor who played the dashing Capt Mike Yates in 1970s episodes of the long-running TV series Doctor Who

The Guardian - UK

The Final Fantasy 16 soundtrack stands above other game scores this year by combining modern storytelling and classical techniques

Final Fantasy 16’s music combines techniques from past and present to make a bold and distinctive sound.

TechRadar

Fifteen hours of Wagner: Opera Australia’s Ring Cycle brings big spectacle – and a world first – to Brisbane

The high-tech production took 27 semitrailers to load in – and while tickets aren’t cheap, the marathon pays off

The Guardian - AU

Queen Camilla's romantic birthday surprise that King Charles did 'against his better judgement'

Queen Camilla's romantic birthday surprise from King Charles involved him being 'persuaded' to take part in something pretty special

Woman & Home

'Ring nuts' descend on Australia for epic Wagner opera

Wagner's 15-hour Ring Cycle is being staged in Brisbane for the first time, attracting opera buffs from all over the world.

AAP

Magnificently terrifying tale of ‘The Flying Dutchman’ soars in grand staging at Lyric Opera

It’s director’s Christopher Alden’s production design that makes a grand impression. Its vertigo-inspiring sets and creepy costumes by Allen Moyer, coupled with lighting by Anne Militello, literally rock the senses as if in a haunting dream.

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The Independent UK

A month after Prigozhin’s suspicious death, the Kremlin is silent on his plane crash and legacy

A month after Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a suspicious plane crash, the Kremlin seems to be succeeding in keeping the demise of the profane and outspoken Wagner chief as low-key as possible

Salon

"The Other Black Girl": Work is a horror

There are no jump scares in Hulu's new thriller, but the dread of being Black in a mainly white industry is real

Chicago Sun-Times

Fall classical music preview: An early-music collaboration and 10 more highlights of the season

Riccardo Muti returns, Lyric Opera goes to sea and Newberry Consort joins forces for the first time with Haymarket Opera Company.

The Independent UK

The Wagner mercenary group's second-in-command is buried in a quiet Moscow ceremony

The man who is believed to have given Russian mercenary group Wagner its name has been buried at a military cemetery in Moscow

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Who was Dmitry Utkin, a key Wagner mercenary who died alongside Prigozhin?

The secretive war-hardened career-officer-turned-mercenary is said to have given the Wagner group its name.

Zenger

Prigozhin Believed Dead In Plane Crash

Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, leader of the Wagner Group who challenged Russian President Putin’s authority in June, is presumed dead

The Independent UK

The downed Russian jet carried Wagner's hierarchy, from Prigozhin's No. 2 to his bodyguards

The manifest of the plane that went down in Russia is essentially a who’s who for the Wagner mercenary group: The second-in-command, who baptized Wagner with his nom de guerre, the logistics chief and a fighter wounded by U.S. airstrikes in Syria

The Independent UK

Nathalie Stutzmann become second woman to conduct at Bayreuth, 2 years after gender barrier broken

Nathalie Stutzmann has become the second woman to lead a Richard Wagner opera at the Bayreuth Festival

The Independent UK

Augmented reality-infused production of Wagner's `Parsifal' opens Bayreuth Festival

Director Jay Scheib’s augmented reality-infused production of Wagner's “Parsifal” premiered in the the theater the composer conceived of in the late 1880s

The Independent UK

Bayreuth Festival plans to present Wagner's 'Rienzi' for the first time in 2026

The Bayreuth Festival intends to present “Rienzi” for the first time in 2026 for its 150th anniversary, going outside of the canon of Richard Wagner’s final 10 operas for the first time

The Guardian - UK

Could Yevgeny Prigozhin really have captured Moscow?

Last week’s Wagner revolt was less an attempted coup, more an impulsive demonstration that got out of hand

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