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.
Specifically written for the Festspielhaus, Wagner described Parsifal as ‘ein Bühnenweihfestspiel’ (A Festival Play for the Consecration of the Stage)...
Wagner’s first mature opera written in 1841, Der fliegende Holländer is directed with great flair and imagination by the German theatre director, Jan ...
English National Opera flourishes at the London Coliseum that’s for sure and their latest production, Verdi’s tragic and powerful love story, The Forc...
English National Opera’s new season at the London Coliseum got off to a ripping start with Dmitri Tcherniakov’s gripping new production of Lady Macbet...
Götterdämmerung - the last opera in Wagner’s Ring cycle directed by Frank Castorf in celebration of the bicentenary of the composer’s birth in 2013 - ...
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 slightly faded 1950s motel on America’s famed Route 66, aptly named ‘Golden’, provides a stylish and authentic setting for Frank Castor...
