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 ...

As is its tradition, Seattle Opera opens its new season on Saturday with an opera by Richard Wagner. “Lohengrin,” a mythic story of a mysterious knight with powers so strong he can save a kingdom, is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg is an opera in three acts, written and composed by Richard Wagner. It is among the longest operas commonly performed, usually taking around four and a half hours. It was ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...