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[...] visiting the Vatican again; entering the Sistine Chapel R. says: "This is like my theater, one feels it is no place for jokes."
(Cosima’s diary - 21 November 1876)
(Cosima’s diary - 21 November 1876)
November 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
[...] visiting the Vatican again; entering the Sistine Chapel R. says: "This is like my theater, one feels it is no place for jokes."
(Cosima’s diary - 21 November 1876)
(Cosima’s diary - 21 November 1876)
My top musical find of the year is Imperial Triumphant - a band that doesn’t just blow my mind, it pulls me away from my own expectations. I can’t quite explain why I’m drawn to them, but I’m completely hooked.
#metalsky
#metalsky
November 16, 2025 at 3:44 PM
My top musical find of the year is Imperial Triumphant - a band that doesn’t just blow my mind, it pulls me away from my own expectations. I can’t quite explain why I’m drawn to them, but I’m completely hooked.
#metalsky
#metalsky
It's the birthday of Paul Hindemith (b. 1895), and it's Sunday, so time for an opera in the nunnery.
November 16, 2025 at 8:17 AM
It's the birthday of Paul Hindemith (b. 1895), and it's Sunday, so time for an opera in the nunnery.
Frankenstein 2025 (Guillermo Del Toro)
November 14, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Frankenstein 2025 (Guillermo Del Toro)
"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me Man, did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?"
(from: John Milton’s Paradise Lost, these lines appear on the title page of FRANKENSTEIN)
(Art: Bernie Wrightson)
To mould me Man, did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?"
(from: John Milton’s Paradise Lost, these lines appear on the title page of FRANKENSTEIN)
(Art: Bernie Wrightson)
November 14, 2025 at 9:56 AM
"Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay
To mould me Man, did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?"
(from: John Milton’s Paradise Lost, these lines appear on the title page of FRANKENSTEIN)
(Art: Bernie Wrightson)
To mould me Man, did I solicit thee
From darkness to promote me?"
(from: John Milton’s Paradise Lost, these lines appear on the title page of FRANKENSTEIN)
(Art: Bernie Wrightson)
And some beautiful and provocative visuals (the link to the history of Bayreuth and its connection to the Nazis). With a taste for surrealism that made me think of Max Ernst.
November 13, 2025 at 3:51 PM
And some beautiful and provocative visuals (the link to the history of Bayreuth and its connection to the Nazis). With a taste for surrealism that made me think of Max Ernst.
For Frankenstein, the true story (which is not the real story either, of course), I much more prefer this made-for-television film from 1973, starring James Mason, Michael Sarrazin, David McCallum, and Jane Seymour 🖤
November 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
For Frankenstein, the true story (which is not the real story either, of course), I much more prefer this made-for-television film from 1973, starring James Mason, Michael Sarrazin, David McCallum, and Jane Seymour 🖤
What also didn't help was that the cast (with the exception of Jacob Elordi, who is a fantastic monster) didn't really flesh out the characters. Oscar Isaac, Christoph Waltz (with his usual mannered acting) and the actress with the perfect name, Mia Goth, left me completely cold.
November 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
What also didn't help was that the cast (with the exception of Jacob Elordi, who is a fantastic monster) didn't really flesh out the characters. Oscar Isaac, Christoph Waltz (with his usual mannered acting) and the actress with the perfect name, Mia Goth, left me completely cold.
I didn't like the altered storylines in which Victor and the monster are portrayed as a one-dimensional villain and an innocent character, respectively. The ambiguity and elusiveness, necessary for real drama, are sorely missed. The creature as some kind of super hero also didn't appeal to me.
November 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I didn't like the altered storylines in which Victor and the monster are portrayed as a one-dimensional villain and an innocent character, respectively. The ambiguity and elusiveness, necessary for real drama, are sorely missed. The creature as some kind of super hero also didn't appeal to me.
Time for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein:
Despite his ambition, this Frankenstein looks more like a tv-show than a film in which, as is so often, the action is the least interesting part. But I loved the fact that, like the book, the film allows the monster to elaborate extensively on his fate.
Despite his ambition, this Frankenstein looks more like a tv-show than a film in which, as is so often, the action is the least interesting part. But I loved the fact that, like the book, the film allows the monster to elaborate extensively on his fate.
November 13, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Time for Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein:
Despite his ambition, this Frankenstein looks more like a tv-show than a film in which, as is so often, the action is the least interesting part. But I loved the fact that, like the book, the film allows the monster to elaborate extensively on his fate.
Despite his ambition, this Frankenstein looks more like a tv-show than a film in which, as is so often, the action is the least interesting part. But I loved the fact that, like the book, the film allows the monster to elaborate extensively on his fate.
It's Wednesday, another day of Wotan:
Richard Wagner directs Franz Betz in the role of Wotan (in Das Rheingold for the premiere of the Ring in Bayreuth in 1876)
Richard Wagner directs Franz Betz in the role of Wotan (in Das Rheingold for the premiere of the Ring in Bayreuth in 1876)
November 12, 2025 at 10:34 AM
It's Wednesday, another day of Wotan:
Richard Wagner directs Franz Betz in the role of Wotan (in Das Rheingold for the premiere of the Ring in Bayreuth in 1876)
Richard Wagner directs Franz Betz in the role of Wotan (in Das Rheingold for the premiere of the Ring in Bayreuth in 1876)
And it's the only Dracula adaption (as far as I know) in which Van Helsing really speaks Dutch when speaking in his mother tongue (in the book he curses in German 😈)
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
And it's the only Dracula adaption (as far as I know) in which Van Helsing really speaks Dutch when speaking in his mother tongue (in the book he curses in German 😈)
This weekend was Bram Stoker's 178th birthday.
So movie time.
A surprisingly good Dracula adaptation is the one starring Robert Langella as the Count. With a clever rewriting of the original story and as a Dracula movie with a romantic love‑story angle, it works far better than Coppola’s movie.
So movie time.
A surprisingly good Dracula adaptation is the one starring Robert Langella as the Count. With a clever rewriting of the original story and as a Dracula movie with a romantic love‑story angle, it works far better than Coppola’s movie.
November 10, 2025 at 8:18 PM
This weekend was Bram Stoker's 178th birthday.
So movie time.
A surprisingly good Dracula adaptation is the one starring Robert Langella as the Count. With a clever rewriting of the original story and as a Dracula movie with a romantic love‑story angle, it works far better than Coppola’s movie.
So movie time.
A surprisingly good Dracula adaptation is the one starring Robert Langella as the Count. With a clever rewriting of the original story and as a Dracula movie with a romantic love‑story angle, it works far better than Coppola’s movie.
You don't need to emphasise the heaviness of "I Want You (She's so Heavy)" by The Beatles - it's perfect as it is.
But you can bring out the grimmer side of it, as this version of Coroner does, and make it a fitting soundtrack for a vampire.
#Nosferatu
But you can bring out the grimmer side of it, as this version of Coroner does, and make it a fitting soundtrack for a vampire.
#Nosferatu
November 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
You don't need to emphasise the heaviness of "I Want You (She's so Heavy)" by The Beatles - it's perfect as it is.
But you can bring out the grimmer side of it, as this version of Coroner does, and make it a fitting soundtrack for a vampire.
#Nosferatu
But you can bring out the grimmer side of it, as this version of Coroner does, and make it a fitting soundtrack for a vampire.
#Nosferatu
Q:
What opera is this?
What opera is this?
November 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Q:
What opera is this?
What opera is this?
The first Halloween movie (from 1978) is a classic. By far the best. I don't like the sequels.
November 1, 2025 at 9:17 AM
The first Halloween movie (from 1978) is a classic. By far the best. I don't like the sequels.
DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER by Joachim Herz (1964) testifies of the proto-film that hides in Wagner's opera. A movie to make opera accessible "for people who have a horror of it" (and people who love horror, John Carpenter's The Fog comes to mind).
#Halloween
#Halloween
October 31, 2025 at 10:20 PM
DER FLIEGENDE HOLLÄNDER by Joachim Herz (1964) testifies of the proto-film that hides in Wagner's opera. A movie to make opera accessible "for people who have a horror of it" (and people who love horror, John Carpenter's The Fog comes to mind).
#Halloween
#Halloween
Othmar Schoeck’s "Lebendig Begraben" (1927) is a haunting song cycle where a man buried alive relives his memories as he accepts his fate.
This and more in the WAGNER & HEAVY METAL HALLOWEEN TOP 10 >>>
#Halloween
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/the-hal...
This and more in the WAGNER & HEAVY METAL HALLOWEEN TOP 10 >>>
#Halloween
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/the-hal...
October 31, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Othmar Schoeck’s "Lebendig Begraben" (1927) is a haunting song cycle where a man buried alive relives his memories as he accepts his fate.
This and more in the WAGNER & HEAVY METAL HALLOWEEN TOP 10 >>>
#Halloween
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/the-hal...
This and more in the WAGNER & HEAVY METAL HALLOWEEN TOP 10 >>>
#Halloween
www.wagner-heavymetal.com/blog/the-hal...
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
Hagen (Josef Greindl) kills Siegfried (Wolfgang Windgassen)
(Bayreuther Festspiele 1956 / staging: Wieland Wagner)
Hagen (Josef Greindl) kills Siegfried (Wolfgang Windgassen)
(Bayreuther Festspiele 1956 / staging: Wieland Wagner)
October 30, 2025 at 10:47 AM
GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG
Hagen (Josef Greindl) kills Siegfried (Wolfgang Windgassen)
(Bayreuther Festspiele 1956 / staging: Wieland Wagner)
Hagen (Josef Greindl) kills Siegfried (Wolfgang Windgassen)
(Bayreuther Festspiele 1956 / staging: Wieland Wagner)
Max Brückner - Final scene of Götterdämmerung (1894)
October 30, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Max Brückner - Final scene of Götterdämmerung (1894)
On Wednesday, the day of Wotan:
Wotan waits in Valhalla for the end with his broken spear
(Hermann Hendrich 1906)
Wotan waits in Valhalla for the end with his broken spear
(Hermann Hendrich 1906)
October 29, 2025 at 6:20 PM
On Wednesday, the day of Wotan:
Wotan waits in Valhalla for the end with his broken spear
(Hermann Hendrich 1906)
Wotan waits in Valhalla for the end with his broken spear
(Hermann Hendrich 1906)