New Jersey Opera’s inaugural performance at UCPAC will be a tour of Wagner’s operas including arias from Die Walküre, Das Rheingold, Götterdämmerung, Tannhäuser, Parsifal, Die Meistersinger, Lohengrin ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 Santa Barbara (OSB) will close its unexpected 2020-21 season with the company premiere of its first Richard Wagner opera “Das Rheingold.” The only performance will be 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 27 ...

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 ...

Seattle Opera will offer a broadcast of its most popular production of all time-Richard Wagner's Ring cycle this February. Tune in to Classical KING FM 98.1 or king.org to enjoy a 2005 recording of ...

In central Oklahoma, summer is a season of sweltering temperatures, tasty food and tantalizing opera. "There's this real audience for opera in Oklahoma. ... I think one of the incredible things about ...

Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music. By Alex Ross.Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 784 pages; $40. Fourth Estate; £30. HITLER CASTS as long a shadow over Richard Wagner as Wagner casts over ...

You cannot escape Richard Wagner. If this review has reached you, anywhere in the world and by whatever means, you have already had your life affected in some way by a 19th-century megalomaniacal ...