During Germany’s last 150 years, a king has been dethroned, a kaiser has abdicated, and a dictator has fallen, but on the Green Hill in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth, one thing has stood the test of ...
Paul Curran makes his Company debut directing his production from Venice's Teatro La Fenice which features renowned Wagnerian interpreters Simon O'Neill and Anja Kampe in the title roles. In ...
A survey at Oper Leipzig provides an opportunity to reassess the youthful efforts that have been excluded from the composer’s canon. By Joshua Barone LEIPZIG, Germany — How quickly Richard Wagner ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Wagner College Opera is set to present “Something More,” a captivating concert showcasing opera scenes from renowned composers such as Donizetti, Verdi, Mozart, Strauss, ...
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Regional opera companies always take a pause before they produce operas by Richard Wagner. The German composer has a big reputation for grand titles that ...
Tristan und Isolde is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan and Iseult by Gottfried von Strassburg. It was ...
The Ring - An Orchestral Adventure is a symphonic narrative of just over an hour The length and heaviness of Wagner operas ...
During Germany’s last 150 years, a king has been dethroned, a kaiser has abdicated, and a dictator has fallen, but on the Green Hill in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth, one thing has stood the test of ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Wagner College Opera invites audiences to experience a magical night of spellbinding music, fantasy, and philosophy in its upcoming production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” ...
To France’s Claude Debussy, Germany’s Richard Wagner was “that old poisoner” of the pure wells of music. In the 1890’s, fuming at the “grandiloquent hysteria” of the Wagnerian heroes—and calling his ...
As my uncle Cal’s mind and body started to deteriorate, he couldn’t have sex anymore, so he made increasingly sensual paintings. This is his 1988 painting Venusberg, a depiction of the subterranean ...