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Is It Still Too Soon to Like Wagner Again?

One of the most irritating trends in contemporary musicology has to be the wholesale re-appraisal of a revered composer under the guise of institutional revisionism.
By Logan K. Young

  • Off Broadway Listing: Joseph Keckler's 'I am an Opera'

    Beckoning the audience into a labyrinth of memories and visions, award-winning singer, interdisciplinary artist and writer Joseph Keckler performs his own radical rendition of an opera. Directed by Uwe Mengel, this operatic exposure of Keckler's inner subconscious--transparent at its most ridiculous and sublime--is propelled through a multi-media series of phantasmagoric tableaux with many an unexpected turn.
    By Logan K. Young

  • Tenor Lance Ryan's Late Arrival in Berlin...Literally

    Canadian tenor Lance Ryan, scheduled to sing the title role in Wagner's 'Siegfried,' misses all of Act I at the Staatsoper.
    By Logan K. Young