Tacoma Opera is launching its boldest project ever: a five-year plan to stage Wagner's four-part "Ring." It's an ambitious ...

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 ...

Paul du Quenoy on Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin,’ at the Bayreuth Festival ...

A survey at Oper Leipzig provides an opportunity to reassess the youthful efforts that have been excluded from the composer’s canon. By Joshua Barone LEIPZIG, Germany — How quickly Richard Wagner ...

It’s one of the great epics of Western civilization, a four-part drama of family dysfunction and betrayal, of gods and mortals, giants and dwarfs, sacrifice and ultimate cleansing and renewal by fire ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Wagner College Opera is set to present “Something More,” a captivating concert showcasing opera scenes from renowned composers such as Donizetti, Verdi, Mozart, Strauss, ...

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 ...

At the festival that Wagner founded, a new “Parsifal” looks different depending on how you see it, and a workshop model refreshes revivals. By Zachary Woolfe Zachary Woolfe saw Wagner’s “Ring,” ...

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 ...

These days, the Internet is abuzz with newcomers to the world of Richard Wagner asking for advice on which recordings to buy. This is understandable, considering that a new-release CD set of a Wagner ...

Productions of Wagner's opera "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" divide audiences. Should emphasis be placed on the opera's comical elements, or is it to be seen as more of a serious play about German ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The founder of the Glyndebourne festival loved Wagner and performed excerpts from "Die Meistersinger" on the organ, but that was before the Nazis adopted the composer's longest ...