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Fifteen hours of Wagner: Opera Australia’s Ring Cycle brings big spectacle – and a world first – to Brisbane

The high-tech production took 27 semitrailers to load in – and while tickets aren’t cheap, the marathon pays off

The Guardian - AU

Queen Camilla's romantic birthday surprise that King Charles did 'against his better judgement'

Queen Camilla's romantic birthday surprise from King Charles involved him being 'persuaded' to take part in something pretty special

Woman & Home

'Ring nuts' descend on Australia for epic Wagner opera

Wagner's 15-hour Ring Cycle is being staged in Brisbane for the first time, attracting opera buffs from all over the world.

AAP

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Magnificently terrifying tale of ‘The Flying Dutchman’ soars in grand staging at Lyric Opera

It’s director’s Christopher Alden’s production design that makes a grand impression. Its vertigo-inspiring sets and creepy costumes by Allen Moyer, coupled with lighting by Anne Militello, literally rock the senses as if in a haunting dream.

Chicago Sun-Times

A month after Prigozhin’s suspicious death, the Kremlin is silent on his plane crash and legacy

A month after Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed in a suspicious plane crash, the Kremlin seems to be succeeding in keeping the demise of the profane and outspoken Wagner chief as low-key as possible

The Independent UK

"The Other Black Girl": Work is a horror

There are no jump scares in Hulu's new thriller, but the dread of being Black in a mainly white industry is real

Salon

Fall classical music preview: An early-music collaboration and 10 more highlights of the season

Riccardo Muti returns, Lyric Opera goes to sea and Newberry Consort joins forces for the first time with Haymarket Opera Company.

Chicago Sun-Times

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The Wagner mercenary group's second-in-command is buried in a quiet Moscow ceremony

The man who is believed to have given Russian mercenary group Wagner its name has been buried at a military cemetery in Moscow

The Independent UK

Who was Dmitry Utkin, a key Wagner mercenary who died alongside Prigozhin?

The secretive war-hardened career-officer-turned-mercenary is said to have given the Wagner group its name.

Al Jazeera

Prigozhin Believed Dead In Plane Crash

Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, leader of the Wagner Group who challenged Russian President Putin’s authority in June, is presumed dead

Zenger

The downed Russian jet carried Wagner's hierarchy, from Prigozhin's No. 2 to his bodyguards

The manifest of the plane that went down in Russia is essentially a who’s who for the Wagner mercenary group: The second-in-command, who baptized Wagner with his nom de guerre, the logistics chief and a fighter wounded by U.S. airstrikes in Syria

The Independent UK

Nathalie Stutzmann become second woman to conduct at Bayreuth, 2 years after gender barrier broken

Nathalie Stutzmann has become the second woman to lead a Richard Wagner opera at the Bayreuth Festival

The Independent UK

Augmented reality-infused production of Wagner's `Parsifal' opens Bayreuth Festival

Director Jay Scheib’s augmented reality-infused production of Wagner's “Parsifal” premiered in the the theater the composer conceived of in the late 1880s

The Independent UK

Bayreuth Festival plans to present Wagner's 'Rienzi' for the first time in 2026

The Bayreuth Festival intends to present “Rienzi” for the first time in 2026 for its 150th anniversary, going outside of the canon of Richard Wagner’s final 10 operas for the first time

The Independent UK

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The Guardian - UK

Could Yevgeny Prigozhin really have captured Moscow?

Last week’s Wagner revolt was less an attempted coup, more an impulsive demonstration that got out of hand

Al Jazeera

What future awaits Russia’s Wagner army and its boss, Prigozhin?

Observers say Yevgeny Prigozhin is ‘doomed’ after turning on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Guardian - UK

We can revile Putin’s violence in Ukraine, but we’re not at war with Russian culture

Elizabeth Gilbert was wrong to stop her novel being published on account of its setting

The Guardian - UK

Poem of the week: Life and Song by Sidney Lanier

Imagining the poet as a kind of musical instrument is a somewhat dotty thought, but here the conceit resonates with irresistible musicality

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The Independent UK

Grace Bumbry: Singer who broke opera’s colour barrier

The singer became one of the first African Americans to conquer the international opera stage

The Guardian - UK

Monsters: A Fan’s Dilemma by Claire Dederer review – what’s your cancellation policy?

The American journalist’s thoughts on how we should respond to art created by dreadful people are muddled and poorly researched

ABC News

ABC documentary Knowing the Score charts Simone Young’s meteoric rise to become one of the world's top conductors

The story of Australia's greatest living conductor rivals the drama of Tár, but its real-life protagonist is relatively unknown. A new documentary for ABC TV wants to change that.

WEKU

Yevgeny Prigozhin, 'Putin's Chef,' has emerged from the shadows with his Wagner Group

Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as "Putin's Chef" because of his company's origins in the catering business, now fields a mercenary army of 50,000. Its role in Ukraine is central to Russia's war effort.

Evening Standard

Brünnhilde’s Dream/Counterpoise at the Wigmore Hall review: an imaginative recasting of Wagner’s heroine

Using barely any of the composer’s music, this collage of 19th and 20th century songs shed new light on the iconic character

ABC News

Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as Vladimir Putin's chef, revealed as Wagner Group mercenary boss

Yevgeny Prigozhin, an elusive Russian oligarch linked to an election-meddling troll farm, now openly admits he founded the private military company doing Vladimir Putin's bidding in Ukraine. But his brazen new approach could spell trouble for the president.

Bangkok Post

RBSO concert tests the limits of sound

A programme of Borodin, Wagner, and Brahms/Schönberg in the Thailand Cultural Centre on Sept 2 afforded the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to perform at both the quietest and loudest of dynamics. Experienced Greek conductor Myron Michailidis and Italian mezzo-soprano Lucrezia Venturiello made their Thailand…

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