Tag Archives: Film

New YouTube Channel on NY Wagner Society Events

The Richard Wagner Society of New York is the largest Society in North America.  For years it has offered U.S. Wagnerians opportunties “to learn, to teach, to share,” as its motto goes.  Now it has established a site on YouTube that permits Wagnerians around the world to delight in some of its many offerings. The site …

March 4, 2012 – 9:54 pm | By peterp | Posted in The Wagner Blog | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)

Documentary on Jay Hunter Morris

Just in time for the premiere of the new production of Götterdämmerung at the Met, PBS has offered a brief, charming mini-documentary on Jay Hunter Morris’ last-minute preparations for performing Siegfried last Fall. (See this blog’s report of that performance here.) It is a charming account, full of delight and backstage wonder.  The film starts …

January 23, 2012 – 11:56 am | By peterp | Posted in The Wagner Blog | Tagged , | Comments (2)

Beautiful 1913 Wagner BioPic Released on DVD

In 2006 I viewed a full-length silent film by German filmmaker Carl Frölich titled The Life and Works of Richard Wagner.  It featured an astounding performance by actor/composer Giuseppe Becce.  Now, praise the heavens, a version of the film has been released and is available for purchase on DVD. The film had previously been shown at …

January 4, 2012 – 6:39 pm | By peterp | Posted in The Wagner Blog | Tagged | Comments (2)

Oxymoron of the Month: Cogent Rienzi Production

Before her appointment to co-direct the Bayreuth Festival, Katharina Wagner was quoted as speculating that her great-grandfather’s juvenalia, Rienzi, might claim a place in the repertory of the house.  Soon after her appointment, her production of Rienzi in Bremen was greeted with skepticism and dismissal.  Yet a recent production of the work directed in Berlin …

December 12, 2011 – 11:53 am | By peterp | Posted in The Wagner Blog | Tagged , , | Comments (0)