C. Tennyson Crowe
From the everyday world into Wagner’s world
There are no shortages of guides and studies and introductions to Richard Wagner in every conceivable medium. I would heartily recommend these three to anyone, especially a newcomer.
The great Stephen Fry (a university classmate of Tundi Productions Music Director Hugh Keelan, as it happens) made a wonderful documentary, Wagner & Me, about going to Bayreuth for the first time and his love for (and struggles with) his favorite composer-dramatist. It's well worth seeking out.
A ‘Ringhead’ anticipates Wagner’s return to Brattleboro
Tundi Productions’ Wagner in Vermont Festival promises ‘the whole human experience — love and hate, sex and death, greed and selflessness, exultation and despair, the will to power and the urge to renunciate, the corruption of the world and its eventual redemption’
Something extraordinary is about to happen in Brattleboro this summer, and you should know about it. Tundi Productions - a musical-theatrical troupe founded by two Brattleborians, soprano Jenna Rae and conductor Hugh Keelan - will present its second Wagner in Vermont Festival this August at the Latchis Theatre, centered...
‘Do you understand what you’ve been privileged to see?’
A devotee of Wagner’s opera was skeptical that Tundi’s performance of ‘Tristan und Isolde’ — known for its legendary difficulty — would measure up. He found it ‘extraordinary’.’
I'll admit, I had been a little skeptical when I purchased the tickets to Tristan und Isolde earlier in the summer. Wagner is a major undertaking for the largest, most established opera houses in the biggest of cities - what could we possibly expect from a newly formed company...