@wagnerian79.bsky.social
'There is a God! And he's a gag-writer!' Richard Wagner Society. Titanic Historical Society. Member of general human society (reluctantly)
Leipzig Opera House, 1976.
03.11.2025 13:44 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Strange to see Peterborough (where I now live) and Huntingdon (where I used to live) both headline news. I just wish it were for a better reason. Sympathy and solidarity to all affected. Stay safe out there.
02.11.2025 22:37 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Karajan recording Meistersinger in Dresden, 1970.
02.11.2025 17:23 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Nice poster from www.richard-wagner-shop.de/en/index
(Ignore the blu tac marks, it will be cleaned up!)
Once if you wanted to listen to the Ring at home you had to get through 16 LPs, or sets of several operas in one box set could be 18 or 19 records, really heavy box sets.... Wagnerites in the 60s and 70s must've been truly hench 💪
30.10.2025 21:24 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Groß Glück und Heil lacht nun dem Rhein,
da Hagen, der Grimme, so lustig mag sein!
Götterdämmerung in Leipzig, 1976. (Dir: Joachim Herz)
27.10.2025 23:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Monday Film - a Herzog classic, possibly his masterpiece. You're not a real opera fan until you've hauled a ship over a mountain in the Andes to fund the building of an opera house. (And playing as a tribute to dear Claudia C.)
27.10.2025 19:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The reform party nativity scene.
No unmarried mothers. No Middle Eastern people. No refugees. No people seeking emergency accommodation.
And not a wise fvcking man in sight…
Ordered three CDs - one from Holland, one from Germany and one from the UK. They all arrived today. A comment on how good/bad the postal service is here/there?
25.10.2025 12:07 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Zurück vor dem Speer!
In Stücken das Schwert!
Die Walküre in Dessau, 1954.
Really impressed with Ensemble Pygmalion.
open.spotify.com/album/00Qcbb...
So sorry to hear this, Mark. Condolences.
23.10.2025 10:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Gramophone award-winning Bach.
open.spotify.com/album/36I1sH...
Your desktop wallpaper isn't very good, may I recommend something better? 😀
22.10.2025 10:33 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
So glad they've included Mozart's biggest hit single on here...
21.10.2025 20:05 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Don't know if anyone's noticed, or if I've mentioned this before now, but Wagner is bloody brilliant isn't he?
20.10.2025 09:58 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Worth catching....
19.10.2025 19:22 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Sadly I had to bail after act 2, wasn't feeling well - gutted as it was pretty stunning
19.10.2025 17:53 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Oh sorry I missed you!! I did notice the man in a mask
19.10.2025 17:40 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It's a rainy day but it doesn't matter as the world is about to end... Wagner's Götterdämmering from the marvellous London Opera Company - toi toi toi!
19.10.2025 13:18 — 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It's Friday!!! So time for Beethoven's Violin Concerto with Arthur Grumiaux and Colin Davis. Obviously.
open.spotify.com/album/0e5x80...
Jessye was on another level.
open.spotify.com/album/4nTzNV...
There's drink, there's drugs, and there's Giulini conducting Bruckner's 8th - the strongest of all.
open.spotify.com/track/3LAVYm...
Like many people, I often wonder why we're here, what is the meaning of life. Then I remember: it's to listen to Mozart. open.spotify.com/album/5Ylb5p...
15.10.2025 09:25 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Time for Lenny's Mahler
(when is it not?)
open.spotify.com/album/6rMBGx...
'A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers' - Leonard Bernstein
14.10.2025 07:09 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Love finding random old documentaries on YouTube! Here's Herzog being Herzog on the South Bank Show.
youtu.be/qQbe8cpB6f0?...
Tonight's viewing - the greatest Western ever made.
11.10.2025 17:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Do love coming home to a parcel of CDs 😎 I mostly stream these days, like everyone else, but if I really like something I'll buy the CD and only listen to the CD. Keep physical media alive!
10.10.2025 20:23 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
