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Beaumarchais
Beaumarchais and the Barber of Seville
Italian Opera
Italian Opera I - Living for Art
Italian Opera II - The Art of Living

Mozart
Mozart, Da Ponte and Don Giovanni
Puccini
Melba and La bohème - Addio,
senza rancore

Character development in Madama
Butterfly and its precursors

The Many Faces of Turandot
Turandot - Finding an Ending
Rossini
The Swan of Pesaro and The Barber of Seville
Verdi
La traviata and Verdi - Man of the World
Verdi and Nabucco
Un ballo in maschera - Verdi and
the Censors

Wagner
Enlightenment, Love and Compassion
Götterdämmerung - the Gods Grown Old
Parsifal - Last but not Least
Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde

 

Wagner - continued
From Page to Stage - Interpreting the Characters of the Ring
Image and Idea - Tristan and the Upanishads
An Introduction to Wagner’s Lohengrin
Myths Ancient and Modern - The Ring in the
Age of Virtual Reality

The Wondrous Realm of Night - Poetic and Dramatic Imagery in Tristan und Isolde
Unravelling Wagner's Parsifal
Wagner, the Wanderer
Wagner in Concert
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg - its meaning
and its message

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg and the art
of reconciliation

Lortzing’s Hans Sachs as inspiration for Wagner’s Die Meistersinger
Tannhäuser - programme note
Wagner at the Venusberg
Reviews
The Manaus Ring
A Golden Ring triumphs in Beijing
The Ring in Copenhagen
Das Rheingold in Bangkok