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Sir Simon Rattle seems more concerned with producing the most beautiful sound from his orchestra than driving the music forward Tristan Jakob-Hoff A Berlin Phil performance is always a special occasion, and the ...

It's a shame that she can't respect opera lovers, because this art form offers dramatic experiences you can't get anywhere else September 3, 2008 11:15 AM The lyrics aren't repetitive in Wagner, but Tristan und ...

At 4pm yesterday afternoon the advisory council of the Bayreuth Festival Foundation announced that they had voted 22-0 in favour of the candidacy of Wolfgang Wagner's two daughters, Eva Wagner-Pasquier and ...

ANDRIS Nelsons will set the pulses racing by conducting Berlioz's Symphony Fantastique and two other youthful orchestral pieces in his debut concert as the music director of the City of Birmingham Symphony ...

The tenor Mark Lundberg started his career singing bass and baritone roles. He had an immense range and once his voice had gained sufficient strength, he became a dramatic tenor, singing roles such as ...

What? The retired Wolfgang Sawallisch is making recordings, but as a pianist? It's possible.

There's an honourable tradition, going back to at least Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, of composers writing themselves into their operas.

What: Vancouver Symphony Annual Community Concert in partnership with the Vancouver Children's Opera performing arias from "Der Fledermaus" and "The Merry Widow." Where: Esther Short Park, West Eighth and ...

Canadian tenor Ben Heppner returned to Seattle Opera for the first time in a decade, but not in an opera.

South African soprano Elza van den Heever and Swedish tenor Michael Weinius were named today as the winners of Seattle Opera's second International Wagner Competition.

A festive, exciting occasion awaited the audience at the second International Wagner Competition mounted by Seattle Opera on Saturday night.

Seattle Opera's second International Wagner Competition on Saturday night at McCaw Hall turned up a group of eight finalists with already-burgeoning careers, any one of whom I'd be happy to see back in one of ...

There was rain, the attendant rustle of an audience digging out their umbrellas and -- once they opened them -- the incessant thump of raindrops.

This is a busy week for Asher Fisch, principal guest conductor of Seattle Opera.

This summer Glimmerglass Opera of Cooperstown has programmed four otherwise unconnected works for musical theater based on their roots in the plays of Shakespeare.

Much like Shakespeare's plays, operas inspired by his work range from the incredibly popular to the virtually unknown.

For Chicago opera lovers, the dog days of summer usually stretch from early June when Chicago Opera Theater winds up its season to mid-September when Lyric Opera of Chicago revs up its schedule.

HORST Stein, the distinguished German conductor whose fluency and meticulous preparation were hallmarks as he progressed from humble repetiteur to leading positions in the musical world, has died in Geneva, ...

Tallis Scholars. Big Bach at Big Ben Seattle's Benaroya Hall, home of the Seattle Symphony, also contains a fine organ, which is the most prominent visual feature as you look at the stage of Big Ben .

A large crowd of Columbus Symphony supporters greeted orchestra musicians and Music Director Junichi Hirokami last night at what was, at least as of yesterday, the last scheduled appearance by the troubled ...