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YAHOO Discussion Groups (Selected list) 1. Washington National Wagner Society - the Yahoo Discussion Group of the Washington National Wagner Society http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/washingtonnationalwagnersociety 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 Other Links to Web Resources 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 Wagner Societies 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 Singers 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 |
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