Calls for the composer’s descendants to relinquish their hold are growing but that would risk robbing the event of its USP ...

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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 ...

At the festival that Wagner founded, a new “Parsifal” looks different depending on how you see it, and a workshop model refreshes revivals. By Zachary Woolfe Zachary Woolfe saw Wagner’s “Ring,” ...

The Metropolitan Opera returned from its monthlong hiatus on Sunday afternoon with Wagner’s “Lohengrin,” last seen at the house 17 years ago. Director François Girard conceived this new production as ...

Wagner is difficult to appreciate: His operas are far too dense and much too long to be easily accessible. I don’t mean that the plot is a mess or that the music is inherently chaotic. It’s more ...

Opera Ballet Vlaanderen will open its 2025–26 season with a major new production of Richard Wagner’s Parsifal. The production will premiere on Tuesday, September 23 at Opera Ghent, followed by a ...

Following the resounding acclaim received for Das Rheingold in February 2021, Melbourne Opera continues its triumphant staging of The Ring Cycle, with the cycle's second opera, Die Walküre, premiering ...

Tacoma Opera is betting big on Wagner. At the end of composer Richard Wagner’s “Das Rheingold,” which the company will present in two performances at the Pantages Theater Oct. 3 and 5, the gods cross ...

Der fliegende Holländer, The Flying Dutchman, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner. The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship that can never make port, doomed to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Irene Theorin, left, as Brünnhilde and Daniel Brenna as Siegfried embrace for Richard Wagner's four-part "Ring" cycle, ...