En medio de letreros que indican “Al ascensor” y advierten a los conductores que “lleven su ticket de estacionamiento” con ellos, las doncellas del Rin lamentan el robo de su oro, Siegfried es ...
HOLLYWOOD, prepare to witness a live blockbuster. L.A. Opera will debut the first part of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, “Das Rheingold,” on Saturday, a moment long in coming to Los Angeles that was first ...
It is considered the "most German" of Richard Wagner's operas. Adolf Hitler used the work for his propaganda purposes. Productions of Richard Wagner's opera "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" divide ...
Katharina Wagner (left), great-granddaughter of composer Richard Wagner, and her half-sister Eva Wagner-Pasquier co-direct the Bayreuth music festival. Katharina Wagner (left), great-granddaughter of ...
Director Yuval Sharon’s company debut is an imaginative, expansive production headed by two top-flight singers, Lise Davidsen and Michael Spyres.
After two constricted pandemic years, the Bayreuth Festival is back with an unprecedented lineup of Wagner operas — and full houses. The first is a new production of Wagner's romantic drama, "Tristan ...
Talk Like An Opera Geek attempts to decode the intriguing and intimidating lexicon of the opera house. After the death in 1848 of Gaetano Donizetti (a virtual composing machine who cranked out over 60 ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Michael Cooper Backstage at the Metropolitan Opera, a rehearsal pianist was ready to launch into Wagner’s famous “Ride of the Valkyries.” But ...
As Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner both celebrate bicentenaries in 2013, Ivan Hewett asks opera experts from Philip Hensher to Mark Elder who the better composer is. It’s apt that Wagner and Verdi ...