Links
Learn more about Wagner! Sail the World Wide Web in search of information
on one of the world’s greatest musical geniouses:
Yahoo Discussion Groups
GOOGLE Discussion Groups
Other Links to Web Resources
Wagner Societies
Opera Companies
Singers
YAHOO Discussion Groups (Selected list)
1. Wagneropedia – Discussion List of Wagneropedia: The Virtual Wagner Society
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/wagneropedia/
2. Wagner Gesellschaft – The German Richard Wagner Society in Bayreuth
http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/wagner-gesellschaft/
3. Wesendonck Lieder – Wonderful song cycle composed by Wagner for his
beloved Mathilde Wesendonck
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/wesendoncklieder/
4. Wagner Ring Cycle – Discussion group devoted mainly to discussion of
Wagner’s monumental epic Ring der Nibelungen (other topics are welcome, however)
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Wagner_Ring_Cycle/
5. Richard Wagner – An Informal Gathering Place on Yahoo. Please don’t
be too serious or scholarly. Membership required.
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/RichardWagner/
6. Richard Wagner’s Auditorium – Open discussion forum on his life, works,
philosophy, recordings, performances, singers
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/richardwagnersauditorium/
GOOGLE Discussion Groups (Selected list)
1. Humanities.Music.Composers.Wagner
An Internet discussion group on Richard Wagner, his works, life, and
related topics
http://groups.google.com/group/humanities.music.composers.wagner/topics?hl=en
2. Rec.Music.Opera
An Internet discussion group on opera related topics in general. Plenty
of discussion on Wagner in this group.
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.music.opera/topics?hl=en
1. Selected Reading List of Books, Articles, News Items, Etc. on Wagner
- Drawn from the humanities.music.composers.wagner newsgroup,
- Continuously updated by Derrick Everett of Oslo, Norway
- Contains links to other resources on the internet. http://www.home.no/derrick/booksfaq.htm
2. Ravens Reporting – Wagner Performances Around the World (from the
Wagner Society of New South Wales)
(In the Ring, ravens fly from Wotan’s missing eye and travel the world in
search of news to bring back to Valhalla, hence the title Ravens Reporting –
bringing you news of Wagner performances from all over the world. If you know
of a Wagner performance not listed here in this link, contact the WS of New
South Wales and ask them to post it.)
http://www.wagner-nsw.org.au/ravens.html
3. Bayreuth Festival
http://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de
4. Richard Wagner Museum, Bayre uth, Germany
The English-language text of Dr. Sven Friedrich's talk "Cosima Wagner, a
Remembrance" has been posted on the web site of the Wagner Museum, Bayreuth.
The direct link was
http://wagnermuseum.de/_engl/downloads/Cosima%20_Wagner_engl.pdf
Almost every major city now has a Wagner Society. Some are huge corporations
with budgets to support grants for singers training in the Wagnerian repertoire.
Some are informal book and video clubs. Some do a little of each. They all
have one thing in common – the desire to discuss, enjoy, and learn more about
Wagner’s music, life, and philosophy.
* Here are some U.S. Wagner Societies:
Boston http://www.bostonwagnersociety.org
Chicago http://www.wagnersocietyofamerica.org
Dallas http://www.wagnerdallas.com
Los Angeles http://www.wagnersc.org
Minneapolis http://www.wagnertc.org
New York http://www.wagnersocietyny.org
Ohio http://www.wagnersocietyofohio.org
San Francisco http://www.wagnersf.org
Tampa Bay http://www.wagnersocietyflorida.org
Washington, DC http://www.wagner-dc.org
For more information on these and others world wide, consult the web site
of the International Richard Wagner Society
http://www.richard-wagner-verband.de
Opera Companies that currently perform Wagner’s operas (selected list)
Los Angeles Opera http://www.losangelesopera.com
Metropolitan Opera http://www.metopera.org
San Francisco http://www.sfopera.com
Seattle Opera http://www.seattleopera.com
Washington National Opera http://www.dc-opera.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Wagner
Selected Singers of Note - Not all-inclusive. If you have others you would like
us to feature, please suggest them. We reserve the right to decide
which singers web links to post.
Hildegard Behrens http://www.ffaire.com/behrens/index.html
Regine Crespin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regine_Crespin
Placido Domingo http://www.placidodomingo.com
Jane Eaglen http://www.janeeaglen.com
Kirsten Flagstad http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirsten_Flagstad
Hans Hotter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Hotter
Lotte Lehmann http://www.lottelehmann.org
Alessandra Marc http://www.alessandramarc.com
Lauritz Melchior http:// en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauritz_Melchior
James Morris http://www.ffaire.com/wagner/morris.html
Astrid Varnay http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrid_Varnay