Tony Cooper has been working across the field of publishing and the arts world for a great number of years. He wrote on cultural matters for Eastern Counties Newspapers/Archant based in his home city of Norwich. He writes regularly on opera and admires greatly the works of Richard Strauss and Richard Wagner.
Arguably, one of the greatest works ever written to pure erotic love echoing the legendary days of King Arthur, Tristan und Isolde is an emotional wor...
Specifically written for the Bayreuth Festspielhaus, Wagner described Parsifal as ‘ein Bühnenweihfestspiel’ (A Festival Play for the Consecration of t...
This production of Wagner’s Lohengrin by Yuval Sharon - born in Chicago in 1979 to Israeli parents and Bayreuth’s first American director - first saw ...
Flamboyant and a wonderfully quirky director Barrie Kosky’s innovative production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg was first seen at Bayreuth in 2017...
This production of Götterdämmerung - the last opera in Wagner’s epic four-work Ring cycle directed by Frank Castorf - first saw the light of day in 20...
First seen in 2013 as part of the complete Ring cycle to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Wagner’s birth, the third opera in the Ring, Siegfried, di...
In the second part of Wagner’s Ring cycle, Die Walküre - first seen in 2013 as part of the complete cycle to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Wagner...
A run-down and faded 1950s motel on America’s famed Route 66, aptly named ‘Golden’, provides an authentic setting for Frank Castorf’s stylish and witt...
This production of Tristan und Isolde by Katharina Wagner first saw the light of day at last year’s festival immediately finding success with the cogn...
I’m sitting in the shadow of Bayreuth’s iconic Festspielhaus catching up on the news of Nottingham-born Wagner singer, Catherine Ann Foster, Bayreuth ...
