Wagner News

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.

The Metropolitan Opera's HD broadcast series in movie theaters may be the biggest thing since sliced bread, but it's not the only game in town.

I must confess that the music of Friedrich Klose took me completely by surprise.

American soprano Christine Brewer and pianist Craig Rutenberg will perform Wednesday at New York's musical jewel, Carnegie Hall.

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

Music Director Rohan Smith will conduct the first concert series of the Midcoast Symphony's 20th Anniversary season on Saturday evening, October 24 in Lewiston in a special benefit concert to support the Franco American Heritage Center, and Sunday afternoon, October 25 in Topsham at the Orion Performing Arts Center.

THEY say that opera is "the most expensive human endeavour, with the possible exception of war". And Wagner's Ring cycle is the most expensive opera of all.

Elizabeth Renzetti London - Last updated on Monday, Oct. 05, 2009 04:33PM EDT F or every gift, perhaps, there's a deficit, and when Ben Heppner started his career in opera, he was aware of that he had a natural advantage in his powerful voice, but his acting skills.

Grammy Award-Winning soprano Christine Brewer will perform as part of the Community Performance Series' 21st season on Thursday, Oct.

So it gave us something of a start to read such badmouthing coming from one whose blog posts suggest he's none of the above, but is, rather, a fairly knowledgeable operagoer and a man of some considerable intelligence.