Wagner News

What intrigued me about this video was the eerie dream-like quality, obviously from a backstage black & white monitor camera, of Carlos Kleiber conducting Wagner's Tristan und Isolde at Bayreuth in 1975 .

Discs of operatic arias seem to be A proliferating at the moment, almost A certainly because studio recordings of complete operas have become so expensive.

Most of the time, a concert devoted entirely to one composer is a feast; with Richard Wagner, it's merely a sampler.

George Gershwin painting his portrait of Arnold Schoenberg, ca. 1934, unidentified photographer, from the Henry Botkin papers of the Archives of American Art It is hard to imagine a better program to illustrate the musical tensions of the latter half of the nineteenth century and their impact on the early twentieth than the one prepared by Sir ...

To many ballet fans, opera is all about melodrama and inappropriate vocalising. Yet, to opera aficionados, ballet can seem limited and dull.

As an intellectual, he was a fascinating paradox of pragmatism and idealism - had it not been for his indisputable talent, he might easily have been branded a crackpot - as well as the living embodiment of pride and prejudice.

The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra continues its 2009-10 season this week with a concert that should interest just about everyone with a pulse.

Robert Everett-Green Last updated on Monday, Nov. 09, 2009 3:12PM EST D iamond Anniversary Concert Canadian Opera Company In Toronto on Saturday It took only a few sheets of plywood to turn the Four Seasons Centre into a concert hall.

In 2006, when Washington National Opera opened its American Ring Cycle, few could have imagined that it would end as it did on Saturday night, with a concert performance of GA tterdA mmerung .

With opera house attendances falling alarmingly, venues such as La Scala in Milan are trying to titillate and lure the young La Scala opera house in Milan.

The West Virginia Symphony Orchestra's 2009-10 Symphonic Series continues with "The Wonder of Love," featuring mezzo-soprano Audrey Babcock at 8 p.m. Nov.

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 ...

Puccini's La Boheme is one of those operas that means something even to people who have never seen it.

It seems like yesterday when I started writing this monthly column, but this will be my third holiday column.

Richard Paul Fink , from left, Ryan McKinny and Simon O'Neill star in the Wagner opera.

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 .

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

"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.