About Wagneropera.net
Wagneropera.net is developed by Per-Erik Skramstad (Webkommunikasjon.no in
Norway). Webkommunikasjon.no writes search engine optimized content for
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advice regarding visibility in search engines. Richard Wagner is Skramstad's
great passion. Bayreuth Festival visits in 1990, 1997 and 2008.
Wagneropera.net was launched in April 2008.
Articles without byline is written by the editor.
The Wagner blog and the Norwegian site Wagneropera.no is also a part of this Richard Wagner web project.
Contributors
Erling E. Guldbrandsen
Erling E. Guldbrandsen is professor at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo, and is current leader of the Ph.D committee in «Music and theatre studies, aesthetics, and the history of arts and ideas» there. Guldbrandsen is working specifically in the fields of musical analysis, music and text, opera and wagnerism, aesthetics, performativity, historiography, and musicology.
His publications involve studies into Wagner's Ring, Tristan, and Parsifal, Norwegian opera, contemporary music, Pierre Boulez, Mahler, Bruckner, J.S. Bach, as well as questions of aesthetic experience and the concept of the work of art. He is currently leading a research project on historical recordings of Wagner, Bruckner, and Mahler. He has worked as a music journalist in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corp. (NRK P2), and he also works as a music critic, travelling regularly to Bayreuth.
Nila Parly
Nila Parly is a research fellow in music and theatre at the University of Copenhagen, currently working on a study of death in operas by Wagner and Richard Strauss from a performative angle. She was trained as a soprano singer at the music academy Santa Cecilia in Rome before taking up the study of musicology, literature, and modern culture at the Universities of Copenhagen and Princeton. Her doctoral dissertation on 'Women Characters in Wagner's Works' (2006) was supervised by Jens Brincker, Live Hov, and Carolyn Abbate, and will soon be published in English as 'Vocal Victories'.
Jerry Floyd
Jerry Floyd lives in Washington, D.C. and has written reviews and feature articles for Opera, Opera News, The San Francisco Opera Magazine, Baltimore Sun, The Washington Star, and The Sondheim Review. Jerry served as co-editor and editor of The Washington National Opera Magazine from 1976-78. Since 1986, he has worked at the World Bank as a writer, editor, and researcher. Jerry has filed newspaper and radio reports from Bayreuth, including coverage of 1979 performances of the Chéreau Ring Cycle.
Mark Berry
Mark Berry is an intellectual historian and musicologist. Having studied and lectured at the University of Cambridge, he is now Lecturer in Music at Royal Holloway, University of London. The author of Treacherous Bonds and Laughing Fire: Politics and Religion in Wagner’s ‘Ring’ (Ashgate: Aldershot and Burlington, 2006), he has written on historical and musicological topics from the later seventeenth century to the present day. At present, he is writing a synoptic history of political music drama from Parsifal to Henze and Nono. Other publications include articles on Wagner, Nietzsche, Adorno and the Frankfurt School, Schoenberg, Furtwängler, Bach, Mozart, and Haydn. Future plans include an intellectual biography of Schoenberg. He regularly reviews musical performances in the United Kingdom, continental Europe, and occasionally beyond, for which please see his blog.
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