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 ...

Wagner College Opera will present SOMETHING MORE..., an opera scenes concert featuring masterpieces by Donizetti, Verdi, Mozart, Strauss, Bernstein, Menotti, and more. The scenes explore characters ...

Opera flourishes: in spite of all the financial cutbacks, the UK’s opera companies are managing to create new work and ...

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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.” ...

A new production of Richard Wagner’s “Tannhauser” opera in Dusseldorf, which drew harsh criticism for staging Nazi atrocities, has been cancelled after less than a week. At opening performances by the ...

In a production of Verdi's opera Rigoletto at the Sydney Opera House, the title character (baritone Jonathan Summers) reels at the discovery of his dead daughter. Talk Like An Opera Geek attempts to ...

The idea of “Wagner in Vermont” seems preposterous, but Saturday’s spectacular performance of the five-hour “Götterdämmerung” proved not only is there Wagner in Vermont, but it’ll blow your socks off.

In Wagner’s final opera Parsifal, the title character played in this Houston Grand Opera production by tenor Russell Thomas (in a role debut) undertakes a quest to reclaim a Holy Spear. Parsifal, who ...

BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — Less than 41 hours after his final bows for singing the title role of “Lohengrin” at Munich’s Bavarian State Opera, Piotr Beczała was 150 miles (241 kilometers) away at the ...