The Flying Dutchman at Opera Holland Park review: ambitious and intense - 3/5 This retelling of Wagner’s fourth opera is ...

The Philadelphia Orchestra presents Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde" June 1 and 8 at the Kimmel's Marian Anderson Hall.

What do you do when you’ve done the Ring? Longborough Festival Opera has built a great reputation for its economical stagings ...

Yet with his Bayreuth Festival, Richard Wagner managed to create a mythic idea of himself that has obscured who he really was as a man. When it comes to Richard Wagner, one thing has long been ...

Wagner, though, was an operatic revolutionary who reinterpreted the illustrious art form. Opera, he thought, should not be about superficial love stories but about large themes, such as the ...

No one has ever been able to explain exactly why Richard Wagner had such a shuddering impact on nineteenth- and twentieth-century culture, to the point where he became the subject of a somewhat ...

Image: PA/dpa The cult of Richard Wagner, who had died 50 years before Hitler came to power, was politically fueled by Hitler's presence. Wagner's music, in turn, fueled Hitler's delusions of ...

Cutting-edge technology has again come to the Bayreuth Festival, where Wagner premiered his final opera with the latest stagecraft in 1882. By Zachary Woolfe Zachary Woolfe attended this ...

Stormy weather and an enthusiastic audience mark Julia Burbach’s The Flying Dutchman as it proves a smashing success to open ...

Yet with his Bayreuth Festival, Richard Wagner managed to create a mythic idea of himself that has obscured who he really was ...