Richard Wagner News

Composer Richard Wagner Musical director Philippe Jordan Tannhauser Robert Gambill Elisabeth Camilla Nylund Venus Waltraud Meier Landgraf Stephen Milling Wolfram von Eschenbach Roman Trekel Stage director Nikolaus Lehnhoff Sets Raimund Bauer Costumes Andrea Schmidt-Futterer Choir Festspielhaus-Chor Baden-Baden Orchestra Deutsches ...

A new study published in the Journal of the Acoustic Society of America reveals that Wagner set his text to music in a way that uses the acoustics of the soprano voice in a manner that helps both performers and listeners.

More than 20 years ago, Los Osos painter David Kreitzer made a huge splash with his image for the Seattle Opera's production of Tristan und Isolde.

Those in favour say the man should be separated from his music. The man is Richard Wagner, Hitler's favourite composer, whose anti-Semitic writings inspired the Nazis.

The composer Richard Wagner is well-known, even notorious, for writing operas that can challenge both performers and listeners.

Pictured are Kirsten Chavez in the title role and Michael Todd Simpson as Escamilla.

Life is full of choices, few starker than this: On a sunny June day would you rather stroll along the Danube River or sit for five hours in a darkened hall listening to a very large soprano belt out Wagner? For Harald Blumauer, 66, a retired executive of Volvo trucks from Vienna, Austria, and tens of thousands of people around the world just like ...

London, Meet Valery Gergiev - the total conductor Add your view Set to dazzle: 'London will see what other cities didn't see,' says.

As a homosexual with a Jewish wife in Nazi Germany, he would have faced deportation.

The great-granddaughter of Hitler's favourite composer plans to expose how the Bayreuth Festival became connected with the Third Reich The great-granddaughter of Richard Wagner, Hitler's favourite composer, has vowed to investigate her family's links with the Nazis in a move that could be bitterly opposed by other members of the dynasty.

Today is Wednesday, June 10, the 161st day of 2009. There are 204 days left in the year.

Fiona Murphy as Korabella and Susan Gritton as Fiordiligl in the Kiarostami-directed version of Mozart's Cosi fan Tutte.

The Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra will perform the next concert on June 13 at 7.30pm at the Aspire Hall in the Aspire Zone, with Karl-Heinz Steffens from Germany as the guest conductor.

Glyndebourne Opera, UK will play Tristan und Isolde by Richard Wagner, supported by a syndicate of individuals, sung in German with English supertitles.

You've heard of reality TV. Now, get ready for reality opera. This spring, Seattle Opera launched a search for the perfect person to host a behindthescenes look at Richard Wagner's epic "Ring Cycle." The Opera announces the winner of the contest tomorrow, June 6. Kelsey Hancock and her friends teeter into McCaw Hall on sparkly high heeled sandals.

In his concept of Gesamtkunstwerk - total artwork - Richard Wagner left out the senses of taste, touch and smell.

The accent will definitely be on the romantic at 8 p.m. Wednesday in UCSB's Lotte Lehman Concert Hall, when Richard Rintoul leads the University Symphony in its final concert of the 2008-09 academic year.

Famed Ohio cartoonist Philip Craig Russell visited Ohio State May 12 as the subject of a new documentary highlighting his illustrious career.

WHAT A WAY to go! I can think of few more dramatic, soul-stirring ways to mark one's departure from one place to another, than with a performance of the monumental Requiem Mass by Giuseppe Verdi.

It's been exactly 30 years since the last and only other time Indianapolis Opera and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra joined their programming series to produce an opera with an ISO music director on the podium.