Richard Wagner News

Violinist Alexandru Tomescu will concert on Friday evening, at Radio Hall, alongside the National Radio Orchestra, with conductor Radu Popa on the stand.

Richard Wagner's great-grandson, Gottfried Wagner, on Friday protested the choice of music at festivities 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which includes a composition by his "anti-semitic" great-grandfather. Israeli pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim is leading Monday's performance at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, which is to include A ...

The Szymanowski Quartet offers a FREE concert tomorrow night at 8 PM at the Library of Congress.

Houston Grand Opera music director Patrick Summers will conduct Wagner's Lohengrin.

The opera superstar has selected a delightful program that includes arias by Richard Wagner and Giacomo Puccini and songs by Amy Beach, Ottorino Respighi, Richard Strauss, Benjamin Moore, and Leonard Bernstein .

She calls Cedar Lake home, but Brenda Roberts is an opera singer with artistic experiences that extend way beyond Hoosier soil.

Tickets are now on sale for Hawaii Opera Theatre's Grand Opera 2010 Anniversary Season.

Parsifal , like many of Richard Wagner's operas, existed in his head long before it was put to music.

As with Harry Potter books, so with the Ring cycle of Richard Wagner: as the story unfolds, each part goes on far longer than the part that preceded it.

"Joyfully we greet this noble hall/where only art and peace shall ever dwell." With the rousing Entry of the Guests from Richard Wagner's Tannhauser the Winspear Opera House opened for business Thursday night.

Architect Spencer de Grey inside the new Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House in Dallas on Thursday.

Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde was begun in 1854 and completed in August 1859.

Siegfried is the third opera of Richard Wagner's . The libretto was written in 1851.

A wall of spectacular will wash across an audience when the Longview Symphony explodes into its 2009-10 season Saturday.

Richard Wagner began work on his opera Die Meistersinger von N in 1845. The libretto went through many drafts and was not completed until 1862, while the opera did not premiere until June 21, 1868 in Munich.

Lohengrin , composed by Richard Wagner , is a romantic opera in three acts. It was first performed in 1850 at the Staatskapelle Weimar and conducted by Franz Liszt.

Siegfried is the third opera in Richard Wagner 's epic Ring Cycle. Its four operas are based on material from: the Poetic Edda , the Prose Edda , the Vlsunga Saga , Thidreks Saga and the Nibelungenlied .

Psychology provides some suggestions as to why so many artists transgress ethical boundaries.

In the Valhalla of his mind, my friend was convinced that there was basis for Hitler to believe in the supremacy of the Aryan race.

Next weekend is opening night for the Pensacola Symphony, and the excitement around this season is extraordinary.