Richard Wagner News

"Der Ring des Nibelungen," which begins with "Das Rheingold" on Monday, is part of the opera house's yearlong celebration of the bicentennial of the births of composers Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner.

Luminato Presents: Evening Illuminations - Verdi vs. Wagner: A Love Story? A favorite TO festival, Luminato, is now in full swing! Tonight, as part of the festival's Evening Illuminations series, a special group discussion comparing and contrasting two composers: Verdi and Wagner.

NO OPERA by Richard Wagner could have been more dramatic. It looked as if it was directed by a genius.

When mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao died last February at the age of 46 after a long battle with cancer, I found myself writing a highly personalized obituary on my national site.

Richard Wagner's ultimate love story of tragic passion, deceit and death often ends up as an evening of tedium, or worse, kitsch.

Can watching two people suffer for four hours be enjoyable? The Vienna State Opera makes it happen with its new production of "Tristan and Isolde."

Can watching two people suffer for four hours be enjoyable? The Vienna State Opera makes it happen with its new production of "Tristan and Isolde."

George Hewett 17, from Iwerne Minster and a pupil at Clayesmore School was so impressed by the 2012 Dorset Opera Festival that he decided he wanted to take part this year.

Welsh National Opera ended their short season commemorating the bicentenary of composer Richard Wagner with a stunning and imaginative first performance in Wales of Wagner Dream.

"Yves loved music - a lot," Pierre Berge said Monday night in Paris at a commemorative concert to mark the fifth anniversary of the death of Yves Saint Laurent.

Musical symphony: The concert celebrated opera legends and Broadway musicals and played music from the recently-successful Academy Award-winning film Les Miserable.

THE WORKS of German composer Richard Wagner are widely considered to be demanding and difficult by performers and audiences alike.

Enthusiasm can come in surprising forms. Two days away from the 200th anniversary of the birth of Richard Wagner, the atmosphere in Leipzig wasn't exactly one of jubilation.

Visually stunning a Karin Giegerich and Gerhard BrA ssner in the Welsh National Opera's production of Wagner Dream.

The 200th anniversary of the birth of composer Richard Wagner, pictured here by Franz Hanfstaengl, will be the theme of the 2013 Princeton Festival, which will feature Wagner's opera "The Flying Dutchman."

Perhaps no other composer in history sought to combine such obviously incompatible elements in his works.

Two centuries after the birth of Richard Wagner, audiences in Russia are beginning to overcome decades of suspicion shadowed by the horror of World War II and embrace the music of the great German composer.

The Welsh National Opera has marked Richard Wagner's bicentenary with a rousing and audience-pleasing interpretation of the German composer's 1850 romantic opera Lohengrin.

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As I observed in my preview piece , the 2013 Festival of the American Liszt Society , currently hosted by the San Francisco Conservatory of Music , is entitled Franz Liszt: Anniversaries and Connections .