Posted February 18, 2013

Posted February 18, 2013

Wagner’s Early Opera opens in the Meister’s home town.

Oper Leipzig is mounting 5 performances of Wagner’s rare opera Die Feen and an additional presentation will be given in Bayreuth this summer. The first performance was held on 16-February with additional performances in April.

http://www.wagnerjahr2013.de/en/die_feen.html

and a review in German (remember translate.google.com will get you a rough translation)

http://www.lvz-online.de/kultur/news/richard-wagners/r-news-a-175138.html

Wag admin noted that the word “buh” was in the article, which doesn’t bode well. However the music was described as “Fresh, Fresh and Genuine”