Klarinet Archive - Posting 000211.txt from 2009/11

From: Joseph Wakeling <joseph.wakeling@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Wagner in Israel
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:58:06 -0500

Dan Leeson wrote:
> I was asked to update an article I wrote on Wagner and realize that I
> stopped paying attention to the Israel/Wagner controversy in 1999. At
> that time, the IPO did not play Wagner (though Mehta tried in 1981). On
> the other hand, the New Israel Opera company's music director, Asher
> Fisch, wanted to mount some Wagner operas.
>
> Can one of our Israeli members of klarinet tell me if the situation has
> changed radically since the turn of the century?

Well, notably, Daniel Barenboim performed Wagner (an excerpt from
Tristan und Isolde) at the Israel Festival in 2001.

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