According to this site...

http://www.mdt.co.uk/MDTSite/product/ROHS012.htm

...the Royal Opera House Heritage label is to release the 8th May 1971
Goodall Parsifal, with Jon Vickers in the title role, Amy Shuard as Kundry,
Norman Bailey as Amfortas, Donald McIntyre as Klingsor, Louis Hendrikx as
Gurnemanz, Michael Langdon as Titurel, and Kiri Te Kanawa as the First
Flower Maiden.

The release date is 29th November.

Excellent news.

Bert

http://www.charloteweb.com/divas/meryl-streep.html
http://www.charloteweb.com/divas/mia-farrow.html
"Sordid Lives: The Series" .... Latrelle Williamson (11 episodes,
2008)
- Episode #1.3 (2008) TV episode .... Latrelle Williamson
- Episode #1.2 (2008) TV episode .... Latrelle Williamson
- Episode #1.1 (2008) TV episode .... Latrelle Williamson
- Episode #1.10 (????) TV episode .... Latrelle Williamson
- Episode #1.11 (????) TV episode .... Latrelle Williamson
(6 more)
"CSI: Crime Scene Investigation" .... DDA Madeline Klein (1 episode,
2008)
... aka CSI: Las Vegas (South Africa: English title: informal
alternative title) (USA: syndication title)
... aka C.S.I. (USA: short title)
... aka CSI: Weekends (USA: promotional title)
... aka Experts, Les (Canada: French title)
- Grissom's Divine Comedy (2008) TV episode .... DDA Madeline
Klein
"Big Love" .... Virginia Ginger Heffman (1 episode, 2007) ...

Amazon.com has a great deal on Wagner's Collected Prose Works, 8
volumes in library binding for only $15 (!!!); and the usual low
amazon shipping rates apply. Here's the link:

http://www.amazon.com/Prose-Works-Volumes-Music-Index/dp/0781290945/ref=sr_1_29?ie...

I'm still looking for a good single volume collection of Wagner's
writings, and have found this paperback: Richard Wagner's Prose Works,
published by Furnas Press (?) in 2007. Unfortunately, Amazon doesn't
give you the table of contents; does anyone have this book, and could
tell me what's in it? Here's the link:

http://www.amazon.com/Richard-Wagners-Prose-Works-Wagner/dp/140674963X/ref=sr_1_1...

It's funny that the one volume paperback selection is more than twice
the price of the 8 volume hardback (no doubt the same old Ellis
translation).

http://www.soundsandfury.com/soundsandfury/2008/09/provisional-retraction.html

Having just acquired the Decca Bayreuth box, I've rushed to listen to
Sawalisch's Tannhäuser...what a mess! Not because of the exceptional
conducting, the legendary singers, but for that Wieland compulsion of
"""improving""" the early operas, not just filling them with several
cuts, but editing them (probably to make them more fluent, with a less
"number-opera" quality).

So, the overture begins as usual and, by that exact point where occurs
the change between the 1847 and the 1875 version, for some bars, it
goes like the 1847 one...only for a little while, because it then
changes abruptly into the 1861/75 Bacchanal!

This condition (that's the exact word I want to use) lasts until
almost the very last bars of the Bacchanal...that are omitted, (i.e.,
the last woodwind/strings alternating chords (!!??)), the music going
straight to "Geliebter sag', wo weilt dein Sinn?" (1861/75 version),
only to be changed again after the 1st Tannhäuser lines, to the
1845/47 version!!.

Here is the URL for the New York Times article on the new direction of
Bayreuth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/arts/music/02bayr.html?scp=1&sq=Bayreuth&s
t=nyt

I won¹t copy the article here. It¹s too depressing.

The print edition of this article included a truly incredible photograph
from a production of ³Meistersinger² by Katharina. If I hadn¹t seen it I
wouldn¹t have believed it. For better or worse, the picture is not included
in the online version.

The article notes that 30%% of Bayreuth¹s budget comes from federal and state
subsidies, and that the politicians are strongly represented in the
committee that chooses the Bayreuth directors. As Mike has pointed out,
that tends to shield the directors from the reactions of critics and
audiences, and thus is partly responsible for the trashy productions.

Dick Partridge

Bayreuth Succession

Here is the URL for the New York Times article on the new direction of Bayreuth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/02/arts/music/02bayr.html?scp=1&sq=Bayreuth&st=ny...

I won’t copy the article here.  It’s too depressing.

...
anne... b3141... was hoping a forum-member or two or three might have
a comment re details i've collected re schwangau knights {aka knights
of st gereon} and the grail and king ludwig and so on and so forth ...
at http://concepts8.blogspot.com/

~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

It appears that Katharina and Eva Wagner have won the day:
http://www.nordbayerischer-kurier.de/nachrichten/1274515/details_8.htm

David (who has just sent off his booking form for 2009)

http://www.soundsandfury.com/soundsandfury/2008/08/the-spirit-of-bayreuth-past.h...

Dear List,

I'm looking for a good anthology of Wagner's writings, including early
drafts of the Ring, and perhaps other texts of his on the Ring, early
and late. Besides the William Ashton Ellis series (which is too big