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...The opportunity to explore Wagner’s psychological dilemma was resisted by Tim Albery in his production from 2010....
...Wagner certainly knew how to thunder and rage....
...(He knew the piece had been written to mark Wagner’s death — a timely reminder to BBC mandarins about the value of institutional memory.)...
...one of the most prominent German composers of his generation, and his massive, exuberant Requiem, which goes at it hammer-and-tongs, is a clear descendant of the attention-seeking grandeur and glamour of Wagner...
...Another Met debutant, Norbert Ernst, melds lyricism and acute verbal nuance for an outstanding Loge....
...“We are going from a lot of . . . rules that are principles based, to more judgment, more estimates, as well as a lot of disclosure requirements,” says Eloise Wagner, partner at Ernst & Young....
...Ernst von Wolzogen’s in-jokey libretto evolves around Kunrad, a mysterious medieval sorcerer who turns out to be a thinly disguised portrait of Strauss himself....
...That is, of course, an illusion, as music is always political – just look at Wagner and Verdi....
...Commenting on the EC’s proposals on Thursday, Mark Brown, director of information security at Ernst & Young said: ”The EC’s move confirms that cyber security is a growing problem for businesses and governments...
...The dictator’s favoured resource, as Yvonne Sherratt points out in Hitler’s Philosophers, was eugenicist Ernst Haeckel’s Social Darwinism, and the Völkisch pan-German nationalism of Houston Stewart Chamberlain...
...Rainer Wagner, head of UOKG, told Der Spiegel: “In the whole picture Ikea was just a small part.”...
...Yet a fine arts training was not for the son of a humble engraver; instead, with his elder brother Ernst he joined the School of Arts and Crafts....
...It will be the first time Paris Opera has performed Wagner’s epic cycle since 1957. Das Rheingold runs until March 28....
...www.guggenheim-bilbao.es Paris Parsifal In its second Wagner this season the Opéra National de Paris premieres Polish director Krzysztof Warliklowski’s interpretation of Parsifal, Wagner’s “superior magic...
...Its librettist, “Ernst Rosmer”, was actually Elsa Bernstein, Jewish daughter of Wagner’s choirmaster, Heinrich Porges....
...Sir Michael Lyons, concluding a Treasury review as interminable as Wagner’s Ring Cycle, meanwhile suggested giving council bosses the power to impose a local tax on companies....
...Behind them all is the German metaphysical yearning that produced Goethe, Nietzsche, Wagner....
...The architects Otto Wagner and Adolf Loos, who built their best-known buildings in Vienna, paved the way for the internationalist style of architecture....
...In October I was approached by a talented publicist in the US, Imal Wagner, who suggested I write a book about my experience....
...Then there was Hitler’s well-documented love of Wagner, who held a special place in Nazi mythology....
...Dressed in a US Air Force uniform for effect, Ernst seemed intoxicated by the energy of the scene where US helicopters bomb the Viet Cong to the soundtrack of Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries”....
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