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The Japan Times
Matthias von Stegmann creates a modern German myth for Japan
The Japan Times
From June 1-16, German-Japanese director Matthias von Stegmann guides this new vision of Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin," last produced at NNTT in 1997, when the composer's grandson Wolfgang Wagner directed for NNTT Opera's inaugural season.


 
Review: Simon Rattle conducts LA Philharmonic in welcome return
Los Angeles Times
But Rattle bled Ligeti's otherworldly harmonies directly into Wagner's "Lohengrin" Prelude, segueing into it without a pause. Wagner's programmatic intention here had been to entice a heavenly light onto the Holy Grail, and Rattle's innovation, ...


 
Telegraph.co.uk
Master singer brought lieder to life
The Australian
His ambition to sing was aroused by a performance of Wagner's Lohengrin; he began lessons in 1941 with Georg Walter and moved the following year to the Berlin Academy of Music with Hermann Weissenborn. Conscripted into the army, he was captured in ...
Donna Summer and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau: They worked hard for their moneyDaily Maverick

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Eurovision.tv
Happy Birthday Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision.tv
The contest was presented by Lohengrin Filipello. The first contest is not known to exist in any archive, although there is newsreel footage that includes part of the winning reprise by Lys Assia. Watch the interview we conducted with Lys Assia in 2011 ...

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New York Times
A Drama Queen With Her Head On Straight
New York Times
But one astute vocal coach asked her to sing through some soprano arias from Puccini's “Bohème” and Wagner's “Lohengrin,” then urged her to switch vocal categories. In 1990, she was admitted to the University College of Opera in Stockholm, ...


 
Kansas City Star
The Classical Beat | Symphony lines up familiar composers, led by an expert in ...
Kansas City Star
Wilson has designed and directed operatic epic myths before, notably Richard Wagner's “Parsifal” and “Lohengrin” and Christoph Willibald Gluck's “Orpheus and Eurydice.” In contrast to the avant-garde Wilson is the conductor, Rinaldo Alessandrini.

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LAist
Classical Pick of the Week: Sir Simon Rattle of the Berlin Philharmonic at ...
LAist
Sir Simon Rattle, the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic (and former LA Phil Guest Conductor), will conduct the LA Phil in a performance of Ligeti's Atmosphères, Wagner's Prelude to Act I of Lohengrin, Mahler's Rückert-Lieder (featuring Rattle's wife ...

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