As a singer, I tried to maintain my own pride, but I found myself constantly looking back without realizing it.” Baritone Kim ...

In the long intervals that the programme at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus allows between the individual acts of its operas, ...

The Bayreuth Festival, where Wagner’s operas have been performed for 150 years, is inconvenient and unpleasant. Why does it ...

Nicholas Brownlee and his powerful bass-baritone voice went from small-town Alabama to the top of the opera world, performing ...

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 ...

It's one of the great epics of Western civilization, a four-part drama of family dysfunction and betrayal, of gods and mortals, giants and dwarfs, sacrifice and ultimate cleansing and renewal by fire ...

Chicago’s Lyric Opera announced the company’s 2023-24 season Tuesday, billing the extensive slate as a “global tour of opera featuring a richly curated slate of musical events in six different ...

The world had plenty of reasons to forget Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle, “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” None of the four makes sense without the others—they premiered together in 1876—but the prospect ...

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 ...

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 ...

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