From 3pm on Wednesday 22 May, Wagner’s actual birthday, there will be a series of Wagner events at the Royal Festival Hall, both on the terrace and inside the hall.   The guests of honour for the evening concert by the Philharmonia will be Prince Konstantin of Bavaria (a descendant of Continue Reading…

On Thursday, 7 February 2013, Ambassador Georg Boomgaarden welcomed high-ranking guests from politics, the diplomatic corps, business and culture to a special Wagnerian recital to launch London’s Wagner 200 Festival at his residence on Belgrave Square.
 
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Now available are a Wagner 200 media release and the full programme for media.
 
 

The Wagner 200 brochure is now available for download. It contains the full festival programme and highlights the special events held at Kings Place.

Wagner 200 is proud to announce, as part of its Wagner the Writer strand, a new translation by Emma Warner of one of Wagner’s most important essays: Das Kunstwerk der Zukunft (The Artwork of the Future). The essay is one of the group of three written by Wagner in 1849–51, immediately Continue Reading…

Richard Wagner: the Sorcerer of Bayreuth is the latest book by Barry Millington, co-director of Wagner 200. Published in the UK by Thames & Hudson, and in the USA by Oxford University Press (under the title The Sorcerer of Bayreuth: Richard Wagner, his Work and his World) the book presents a Continue Reading…