Wagner Demystified, With a Human Face
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The conductor Sir Simon Rattle's reading of Wagner's most mystical opera aimed not for transcendence but for emotions expressed in human terms.
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A show within the show: puffed hair, masked faces and even a light sculpture.
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The composer and musician shares his stylish essentials.
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Hershey Felder doesn't just perform classical music, he gets into character as the composers.
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The latest champion, and possibly the most convincing.
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Dajuan Wagner often wonders how so many things went wrong at once.
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âJerry Springer: The Operaâ  uncovers something grand within the small, squalid lives it portrays.
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Shakespeare's most problematic play Â at least with respect to modern sensitivities Â receives an intelligent interpretation from Michael Radford and a superb cast.
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A show at Mitchell-Innes & Nash invites us to reconsider the virtues of this underrated painter.
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In the age of the short attention span, classical music matters more than ever.
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To Met fans who had grown used to the baritonal colorings of PlÃ¡cido Domingo's Otello, Ben Heppner's true-tenor sound will be a revelation.
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German playwright Tankred Dorst, chosen to direct the Ring cycle at the 2006 Richard Wagner Opera Festival, plans to make the story larger than life in what will be his first foray ever into the opera genre.
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Andras Schiff is showing in his Carnegie Hall traversal of the sonatas is that a handful of relatively small but decisive steps lead from the Haydnesque playfulness  of Beethovenâs earliest works to the grand proclamations of the mature ones.
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It's no small task for a tenor to take on a role that Placido Domingo dominated for decades Â Verdi's Otello.
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He is already a superstar in the world of opera, but many believe bass-baritone Bryn Terfel took a step toward greatness with his debut in Wagner's "Ring" cycle in the notoriously taxing role of Wotan.
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Lorin Maazel, the music director of the New York Philharmonic, is to open a run of Wagnerâs âWalkÃ¼reâ at the Metropolitan Opera, 45 seasons after making his debut at the house.
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Richard Wagner dreamed of doing it this way: The four operas of his "Ring" cycle performed over four consecutive nights, totaling more than 18 hours of musical theater.