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...The UK will crack down harder than the EU on the Russian Wagner mercenary group. Lucy Fisher disclosed that the government will deem it a terrorist organisation within weeks....
...This prompted him to leave his villa in St Moritz for the United Arab Emirates, where he had become a citizen in 2021, and to remove himself as a beneficiary of the trust that owns his empire....
...Escaping a drab city winter for a skiing holiday in Gstaad, Cortina, St Moritz or Aspen has long been a winter tradition for the wealthy, but the sector is now resonating with a wider audience....
...Not that the Wagner of Schenk and his longtime designer Günther Schneider-Siemssen looks like what Wagner himself saw 150 years ago....
...Karlheinz Stockhausen looked back to the “forward-looking” Richard Wagner for his own crackpot, week-long opera cycle Licht....
...The homage to Verdi’s classic opera was cooked up by Mr Döpfner, a former music critic, and KKR’s Philipp Freise, a fellow music lover who sits on the board of Bayreuth’s annual Wagner festival....
...In any opera company, Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen remains the jealously guarded province of the music director....
...and Johannes Martin Kränzle sings him with more intelligence than satanic power....
...Aside from Johannes Martin Kränzle’s delightfully fussy Beckmesser, nobody else is on Terfel’s level....
...Michael Moritz: Sir Alex Ferguson and Leading to Success Sunday April 3, 12pm, Sheldonian £12-£25 Investor and writer Sir Michael Moritz distils the elements required to lead a team to the sort of world-class...
...For the outstanding Isolde of her generation, Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder make a happy marriage....
...The story goes that in autumn 1864, local hotelier Johannes Badrutt offered a rump of mostly English guests still kicking their heels at the end of summer the following wager....
...The prelude to Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde opened the programme with shimmering, luminous strings but a lean tension that prevented the music from heaving with intoxicated passion....
...Brahms, Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss....
...Johannes Martin Kränzle, the firm, possibly too fussy Beckmesser, at least disdained buffonesque mimicry and gimmickry....
...By the mid-19th century, the Swiss Alps were a popular summer destination for aristocratic visitors in search of clean air but, in 1864, Johannes Badrutt, the owner of St Moritz’s Kulm Hotel, was looking...
...Newly installed as music director at the Bayreuth festival, Thielemann sets out his thoughts on Wagner the man and the artist....
...Take the note in the programme for Monday August 17 1914, which announces the cancellation of that evening’s Wagner performance....
...I never attended a performance by Kempe (1910-76) but have long admired his Brahms, Strauss and Wagner....
...Of the few celebrities who ended an endorsement (albeit an inadvertent one), Johannes Peter “Honus” Wagner stands out....
...Cue Johannes Kreidler’s Fremdarbeit (Outsourcing) a four-movement piece that he “outsourced” to two Asian collaborators....
...A Wagner festival in London is nothing new....
...Ever ambitious, the BBC Proms is going for Wagner overkill in the composer’s bicentenary year....
...Johannes Martin Kränzle’s un-caricatured Beckmesser makes an excellent foil, and the rest of the cast look the part....
...Music in 1853: The Biography of a Year, by Hugh Macdonald, Boydell Press, RRP£25, 224 pages Newly arrived in Weimar, an impecunious 19-year-old named Johannes Brahms takes up Liszt’s offer of accommodation...
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