Wagner Week
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Wagneriana
This week, Reflections from the Keyboard pays tribute to Richard Wagner with piano transcriptions of some of Wagner’s work written by Liszt, Busoni, Gould and more. Jan 14, 2024
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Wagner Week: A Dozen Definitive Wagner Interpreters
To close the week of all-things Wagner, WQXR brings you the most definitive Wagner interpreters. From 8 am to 7 pm, we offer 12 Wagnerian conductors and performers from various recordings.
Jul 28, 2013
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Saturday Morning Cartoons: Wabbits and Wagner
Of course, it wouldn't be Wagner Week without mentioning the 1957 Warner Brothers classic "What's Opera Doc?"
Jul 27, 2013
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Wagner Week: Becoming a Pop Culture Staple
"If Wagner had lived in this century, he would have been the No. 1 film composer," the Hollywood composer Max Steiner once said. Today, we explore some of many film and television a... Jul 27, 2013
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Richard Wagner at the Movies
"The Ride of the Valkyries" was used famously in "Apocalypse Now," but it also showed up in Russ Meyers' "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls," and in Ennio Morricone's score for the Sp... Jul 27, 2013
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In the Footsteps of Richard Wagner: Zürich (Part II)
Wagner's relationship with Otto Wesendonck, his most important financial backer, and the young and beautiful Mathilde Wesendonck, who became his most important muse, made for real drama, writes Fred Plotkin.
Jul 26, 2013
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Wagner Week: The Non-Operatic Music
Today we go beyond the "hits" and consider the neglected corners of his catalog, including his overtures, marches, a piano sonata and even a Symphony in C.
Jul 26, 2013
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New Wagner Books Offer Mysteries, Eroticism and Worship
Those inclined to hyperbole claim that only Jesus, Napoléon and Adolf Hitler have caused more ink (and pixels) to be spilled than Richard Wagner.
Jul 25, 2013
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Wagner Week: Bayreuth Remains a Colorful, Controversial Mecca
The 2013 edition of the Bayreuth Festival opens with a new production of the Ring Cycle that's expected to be as colorful and contentious as anything this annual event has seen.
Jul 25, 2013
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Antoine Wagner: How I Came to Know My Family Heritage
Antoine Wagner, a photographer and filmmaker living in New York, has long had a special passion for shooting landscapes and nature. Then he learned about his famous relative.
Jul 24, 2013