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Wagner Week Highlights 20

Soprano Elisabeth Meister & pianist Nigel Foster talk about Wagner鈥檚 early songs and his Wesendonck Lieder, brass legend Eric Crees and his students from the Guildhall the a...

Soprano Elisabeth Meister & pianist Nigel Foster talk about Wagner鈥檚 early songs and his Wesendonck Lieder, brass legend Eric Crees and his students from the Guildhall demonstrate the Wagner brass sound and recently discovered music written specially for a Wagner brass ensemble by Belgian composer Paul Gilson, director and librettist David Pountney tells Sean Rafferty about Welsh National Opera鈥檚 Wagner鈥檚 Dream season, musical comedian Rainer Hersch brings Wagner and Verdi together by way of the anvil, and Dame Gwyneth Jones looks back on her life and career as a Wagnerian soprano

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