During Germany’s last 150 years, a king has been dethroned, a kaiser has abdicated, and a dictator has fallen, but on the Green Hill in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth, one thing has stood the test of ...
Tristan und Isolde is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan and Iseult by Gottfried von Strassburg. It was ...
During Germany’s last 150 years, a king has been dethroned, a kaiser has abdicated, and a dictator has fallen, but on the Green Hill in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth, one thing has stood the test of ...
Perhaps appropriately for a company that takes its name from a composer known for his exploration of mythology, the origins of the Wagner Group’s name are spun in mystery. So far, chief Yevgevy ...
Das Rheingold is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen. It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on September 22, 1869, ...
Opera companies throughout the world are staging Richard Wagner’s “Ring” cycle this year to fete his 200th birthday on May 22, but Hungarian Jewish conductor Adam Fischer is having no part of it ...
Three years ago, Vermont enjoyed its first locally produced Wagner opera. The newly formed company TUNDI (short for “Tristan und Isolde”) presented two performances of the magnificent romance “Tristan ...
Can the bombastic — say, women galloping through the sky on horses, carrying heroes’ corpses and sing-shouting “Hoyotoho! Hoyotoho! Heiaha! Heiaha!” — also be beautiful? It can when accompanied by one ...
GLYNDEBOURNE, England (Reuters) - A new production of "Die Meistersinger" at the Glyndebourne festival sets aside the Nazi associations of Wagner's controversial opera to focus on its timeless story ...
Hugh Keelan, now a Brattleboro-based world-touring conductor, discovered the operas of Richard Wagner as a late teenager. “I went in with doubts — and I left a creature transformed,” he says. “I saw ...
Pedro R. Diaz is used to playing the English horn in the orchestra pit. This time, he is front and center at the Metropolitan Opera. By James Barron Audiences are packing the theater for a new ...
Met officials were forced to bring down the curtain halfway through the opera as protesters unfurled banners that read “No Opera On A Dead Planet.” The performance later resumed. By Orlando Mayorquin, ...
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