Feb 18, 2018
When Parsifal is playing in town at the
M
etropolitan Opera it is a
not-to-be-missed event. Luckily this year, I get to see it
twice. My first visit was yesterday at the Saturday
matinee. I was joined by my good friends Francis and his wife
Julia, as well as my friend Vlad. Francis and I went to
Bayreuth last summer,...
Feb 15, 2018
A guidebook to the city of Bayreuth, written at the turn of the century, got me thinking: I wonder what a trip to Bayreuth would have been like in those days. In this video podcast we will take a trip to 1905, and listen to the glorious voices that graced the Festspielhaus during the beginning of the 20th century.
