Art and Abart

The Sydney Symphony Orchestra put on a sung version of Wagner's Die Walkürie this month and both performances were sold out, as well the...

Coffee grinder with (Wagner) music At Art School in 2008 I had a wonderful time in the print workshop. 'Print' as in etching, in...

Yaay! I got my copy of Blue Tulips: A Love Story in the mail today! It is looking good ... quite a hefty tome at 430 pages. Blue Tuli...

Wagner's Music as Love Potion? Blue Tulips: A Love Story is a book that demonstrates how potent this love potion can be. Blue Tu...

The local paper on Friday It is not so often that an audience rises as one to cheer and applaud at the end of a concert, but in Hoba...

The woman in the seat next to me at the Australia Piano Quartet concert at the Sydney Opera House Utzon Room yesterday was reduced to tear...

After a major Wagner drought, all the antipodean Wagner riches came at once this year.  The wonderful NZSO Wagner Gala conducted by Pietar...

Christine Goerke (Brunhilde) and Simon O'Neill (Siegfried) sang their hearts out at the Wagner Gala in Wellington on Friday. They were b...

'Wotan's Christmas' Card by elizabethgw A card for lovers of Richard Wagner's music. (Folk like me!)    ...

The Tristan Chord, the beginning of modernist atonal music. Here the wonderful Stefan Mickisch explains the Tristan Chord to Stephen Fry. ...

Stephen Mould on piano, Deborah Humble singing On Wednesday Deborah Humble sang lieder by Brahms, Wagner (Wesendonck Lieder) and a long...

The Wagnerian website is giving out gongs for the "greatest  Ring Cycle of all time" and are looking for a suitable (virtual) awa...

Wunder Bar and Valkyries in Heidhardt's 2004 Adelaide Ring Cycle Elke Neidhardt, director of the first Australian Ring Cycle,  has...

The singing and orchestration was exceptional … so why was the magic missing? Australian Wagnerian singers were gathered from across the g...

Grane, dashing through the musical flames As I look at my previous posts I can't help but think my images for the Melbourne Ring Ex...

Brünnhilde's horse Grane. Collage of Intaglio etchings Wagner's Ring Cycle will be performed in Melbourne in November and all so...

I have just discovered Asher Fisch talking about Wagner's leitmotifs . Now I want to hear him conduct. Pity the Seattle Ring Cycle...

Zazzle has a new look ... so my zazzle Artsmitten  store has a new look too.It's where you buy arty cards and T shirts ... including lot...

If you are a Wagner fan ... or even if you aren't, here is a video (in German) to entrance you! Ring Cycle in London (click on the p...

I recently discovered a brilliant summation of Wagner's Ring Cycle on You Tube. It's called In the Eye of the Ring.