For Alex Ross, Wagnerism is as profound and far-reaching an aesthetic ideology – for good, ill, and all degrees in between – as any.
Richard Wagner
Opera CD Review: Wagner’s “Die Meistersinger,” Sung in Italian, Beautifully, with Conversational Ease
A 1962 concert performance from Radio Italiana, now on CD, shows how delightful Wagner can sound without barking and slow wobbles.
Concert Review: The Boston Philharmonic Orchestra plays Wagner—Superbly
The biggest takeaway from the evening was the superb quality of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra’s playing.
Opera Review: A Triumphant Bang of a “Rienzi” From Odyssey Opera
For their debut on Sunday, Odyssey Opera and conductor Gil Rose could hardly have picked a more spectacular, unfamiliar epic than they did.