Peter Bassett discusses contemporaries Wagner, Schumann and the writing of ‘Tristan’.
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What happened to Siegfried?
Siegfried’s role at the centre of the drama as envisaged by Wagner in 1848 had certainly changed by the time Der Ring des Nibelungen premiered in Bayreuth in August 1876.
Parsifal, Victorian Opera
Colin Mackerras, Sheena Burnell and Stephen Emmerson present their observations of Victorian Opera’s February 2019 production of Parsifal.
The first Australian singer at the Bayreuth Festival
Read the fascinating story of Norma Gadsden.