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Bayreuth trims 150th anniversary festival, citing budget cuts

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Bayreuth, built to the composer's specifications and run by …

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Bayreuth trims 150th anniversary festival, citing budget cuts

Associated Press

The Bayreuth Festival dropped four productions from its 150th anniversary season in 2026 because of budget cuts, the festival said Thursday. Bayreuth, built to the composer’s specifications and run by his great-granddaughter Katharina Wagner, had planned to present all 10 of his mature works plus the festival debut of “Rienzi,” Wagner’s rarely performed third opera. Citing labor costs, the festival …

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I'm 36, single... and I'm not going to be a mother. Here's the exact reason why Millennial women like me aren't having children, writes ISOLDE WALTERS

Daily Mail

Earlier this month, I spent a full-on weekend with my three-year-old goddaughter Hettie, culminating on Sunday morning with ‘messy church’ – a two-hour-long toddler-filled extravaganza of arts, crafts and puppet shows based on Bible stories. Isolde Walters writes that many of her peers who do not want children graduated with student debt when the 2008 financial crisis hit and are …

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Tristan und Isolde at Bayreuth

ABC

You’re back in Bayreuth with Mairi Nicolson for this year’s production of Richard Wagner’s groundbreaking Tristan und Isolde at the fabled festival. He was greatly influenced by the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, as Wagner writes: “Life and death, the whole import and existence of the outer world, here hang on nothing but the inner movements of the soul.” Drawing on this …

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Simone Young Conducts Gurrelieder: A Spectacular Romance

ABC

In 1913 Vienna, a youthful Arnold Schoenberg premiered his epic choral work Gurrelieder and received a rapturous response from the audience. Hear an orchestra of 140 players and 185 choristers perform this melodrama based on the Danish legend of King Waldemar and his love for the beautiful Tove who he takes to live in the Castle Gurre on the Danish …

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Self-loathing blends with love at Bayreuth 'Tristan und Isolde' by director Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. She invited Arnarsson to create a new production of …

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Yuval Sharon to direct Met Opera’s new stagings of Wagner’s Ring Cycle and `Tristan und Isolde’

Associated Press

NEW YORK — Yuval Sharon, an American known for innovative productions, will direct the Metropolitan Opera’s next stagings of Wagner’s Ring Cycle and “Tristan und Isolde,” both starring soprano Lise Davidsen and conducted by music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. “I’m glad if Lisa Davidsen has chosen the Met as being her house of choice,” Nézet-Séguin said. New Yorker critic Alex Ross …

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Yuval Sharon to direct Met Opera's new stagings of Wagner's Ring Cycle and `Tristan und Isolde'

The Independent

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Yuval Sharon, an American known …

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Yuval Sharon will stage Wagner's 'Ring' cycle at the Met

LA Times

The Metropolitan Opera has announced that Yuval Sharon — co-founder of the revolutionary Los Angeles opera company the Industry — will direct a new production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle beginning in 2028, culminating in the full four-opera cycle in 2030. L.A. Opera’s production by the avant-garde German director Achim Freyer, on the other hand, was one of the most imaginative …

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Giving up my phone at night has supercharged my dreams and sleep experts say there is a very worrying explanation, writes ISOLDE WALTERS

Daily Mail

As I once again wake, exhausted and grumpy, with my phone wedged under my pillow, I decide something has to change. Isolde Walters found that when she stopped using her phone before bed, her dreams became more vivid So that night, determined to break my smartphone’s hold over me, I plug it into the charger in my living room and …

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Pauline Tinsley: Renowned British soprano who excelled worldwide

The Independent

Able to combine rare musical insight with remarkable resilience, Pauline Tinsley, who has died aged 93, was part of a select but notable band of British opera singers who rose to international prominence throughout the second half of the last century. Making her professional debut in 1961 as Desdemona in a production of Rossini’s Otello at St Pancras Town Hall, …

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Bayreuth trims 150th anniversary festival, citing budget cuts

Bayreuth trims 150th anniversary festival, citing budget cuts

I'm 36, single... and I'm not going to be a mother. Here's the exact reason why Millennial women like me aren't having children, writes ISOLDE WALTERS

Tristan und Isolde at Bayreuth

Simone Young Conducts Gurrelieder: A Spectacular Romance

Self-loathing blends with love at Bayreuth 'Tristan und Isolde' by director Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson

Yuval Sharon to direct Met Opera’s new stagings of Wagner’s Ring Cycle and `Tristan und Isolde’

Yuval Sharon to direct Met Opera's new stagings of Wagner's Ring Cycle and `Tristan und Isolde'

Yuval Sharon will stage Wagner's 'Ring' cycle at the Met

Giving up my phone at night has supercharged my dreams and sleep experts say there is a very worrying explanation, writes ISOLDE WALTERS

Pauline Tinsley: Renowned British soprano who excelled worldwide