Theater
Door Still Open for Concussed Andris Nelsons to Conduct 'Lohengin' at Bayreuth
Classicalite's Five Best: Musical Videos on YouTube You’ve Never Heard Of
James Inverne likes under-viewed vids from the likes of: 'A Chorus Line,' Zero Mostel, Adam Pascal in 'Chess,' Jim Dale in 'Barnum' and, of course, Stephen Sondheim's 'Merrily We Roll Along' Wagner @ Bayreuth: Frank Castorf's 'Siegfried' as Bad as Expected
It was bound to happen in a staging of Richard Wagner's 'Ring' cycle someday, but few would have expected that in Wagner's own opera house, in his bicentenary year his hero Siegfried would kill the fierce dragon Fafner with a machine gun instead of a magic sword.
