Tag: Richard Wagner
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Mickey's Grand Opera
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Richard Wagner’s Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin opens the 1936 Disney cartoon called "Mickey’s Grand Opera." Later in the cartoon, it's "Bella Figlia Dell’Amore," from Verdi’s Rigoletto
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Is 'Dragon Tattoo' Really About the Wagner Clan?
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
A writer considers the uncanny similarities between classical music’s most notorious dynasty and that of the movie based on the bestseller by Stieg Larsson.
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Israeli Orchestra Breaks Cultural Taboo, Plays Wagner in Germany
Monday, July 25, 2011
The Israel Chamber Orchestra is set to perform a work by Adolf Hitler's favorite composer, Richard Wagner, in a taboo-breaking concert in Germany.
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The Ring and I: The Passion, The Myth, The Mania
Saturday, September 25, 2010
Tonight at 7 pm, a one-hour special on what some claim to be "The Greatest Work of Art Ever." We explore how the grandeur and power of Wagner's monumental 'Ring' has permeated our culture.
Saturday at the Opera
Wagner's Das Rheingold
Saturday, July 24, 2010
The Los Angeles Opera's wildly fanciful, $32 million production of the Ring Cycle was a decade in the making. This week's Saturday at the Opera features the first installment of Wagner's four-opera cycle, Das Rheingold.
