Essays

 

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
• America forever! Puccini and 
La fanciulla del West


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
• Wagner’s Ring in Australia
• Enlightenment, Love and Compassion

• From Page to Stage – Interpreting the Characters of the Ring

WAGNER – continued
• Image and Idea – Tristan and the Upanishads
• An Introduction to Wagner’s Lohengrin
• Myths Ancient and Modern – TheRing 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 und der Sängerkrieg auf Wartburg
• Wagner at the Venusberg
• Wagner and Beethoven
• Wagner Finds his Voice
• The Legend of the Flying Dutchman
• Wagner’s unfinished French Revolution operas
• Imagery and Idea in Wagner’s Mines of Falun

Winter and Spring Imagery in Die Walküre and Die Meistersinger

• Balancing the Parts – Staging Wagner in the 21st Century


REVIEWS

• The Manaus Ring
• A Golden Ring triumphs in Beijing
• The Ring in Copenhagen
• Das Rheingold in Bangkok