Richard Wagner News

Alan Held makes an impression as the mysterious title character in Wagner's The Flying Dutchman , at the Washington National Opera.

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 ...

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 world ended on a stage devoid of scenery or special effects, just a soprano in a dark sequined dress singing of redemption and love.

While listening to conductor Grant Cooper rehearse Richard Wagner's Prelude to "Tristan and Isolde" with the West Virginia Symphony, it was clear that just being in the audience at such a time was a privilege.

Lohengrin The magic inherent in Richard Wagner 's first international hit, Lohengrin , is apparent at Houston Grand Opera.

Richard Wagner's four-opera "Der Ring des Nibelungen" - better known in English as the "Ring Cycle" - follows the tale of golden ring that confers great powers upon its owner.

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.