Toscanini Conducts Wagner – review
This collection of Toscanini-conducted Wagner overtures and excerpts has some striking moments, writes Andrew Clements
Wagner: Götterdämmerung, Die Meistersinger, Siegfried Idyll – review
Ivan Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra make a revelatory contribution to the Wagner bicentenary celebrations, writes Nicholas Kenyon
Lohengrin; Ariadne auf Naxos; La Donna del Lago – review
Wagner's detractors were drowned out on his 200th birthday by the fanfares of the WNO, writes Fiona Maddocks
Wagner 200 in London – review
This bicentenary concert was a showcase of the rich and continuing British Wagnerian tradition, with not a German in sight, writes Martin Kettle
WNO/Koenigs – review
Lothar Koenigs conducts a muted run-up to Welsh National Opera's Wagner season, writes Rian Evans
BBC SSO/Runnicles – review
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra bound this concert performance of Tristan und Isolde together, writes Kate Molleson
Die Feen – review
This will never be a repertoire piece, but it is a unified work with some accomplished music by a hugely assured composer who, even at 20, wrote his own libretto and had his own sound, says Martin Kettle
Wagner: Arias; Wesendonck-Lieder – review
Tenor Jonas Kaufmann's thrilling reading of Wagner takes him into new territory, writes Tim Ashley
Siegfried – review
A last-minute replacement for Alberich flew in from Vienna just in time for act two, saving the Ring Cycle's third – and so far patchiest – opera, writes Erica Jeal
Die Walküre – review
Bryn Terfel continues to captivate as the Ring Cycle's second opera becomes a thrilling juggernaut of noise, writes Erica Jeal
Das Rheingold – review
This sprawling Ring cycle revival will make or break the Royal Opera's reputation and morale – and early evidence suggests the former, writes Erica Jeal
Prom 63: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle – review
Only the Wagner was an obvious fit for Simon Rattle's outfit, but Sibelius and Ligeti benefitted from their close attention, writes Erica Jeal
Prom 27: BBCSSO/Runnicles – review
It's not often you hear cries of "encore" after a Bruckner symphony but in Runnicles' hands the Eighth flowed superbly, writes Guy Dammann
Götterdämmerung; BBC Proms – review
Wagner on a shoestring doesn't get much better than this thrilling Götterdämmerung in the Cotswolds, writes Fiona Maddocks
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen – review
This East German cycle features leading Wagnerians of the 80s and the Dresden Staatskapelle on superlative form, writes Andrew Clements