The Unknown Wagner

While the Royal Opera at Covent Garden is doing their Ring cycle (sans Bryn Terfel), they've also spiced up the usual attendant lectures and exhibits with a concert of Wagner Rarities. The program includes excerpts from his first operatic effort, Die Hochzeit, the 1850 attempts at Siegfrieds Tod, Henze's orchestration of the Wesendonck songs, and the opening of something called Männerlist größer als Frauenlist, or Die glückliche Bärenfamilie--no doubt the difficulty involved in pronouncing the title doomed the effort.

Southbank Sinfonia/Barlow: Wagner Rarities - MusicalCriticism.com (concert review)