“essentially a literary gossip column” – CK Stead, 18 April 2010
Friday, May 22, 2009
Happy birthday, Richard Wagner
Born 22 May 813, died 13 February 1883. This is Waltraud Meier singing Isolde’s Liebestod from Wagner’s opera Tristan and Isolde, in a 1999 production in Munich conducted by Zubin Mehta. Seven minutes and 25 seconds of sheer beauty.
Appointment listening: on Sunday at 3pm Concert FM will broadcast a live performance from New York’s Metropolitan Opera of Siegfried.
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