Wagner was finally able to return to his homeland in 1862 where he continued work on his biggest undertaking: The Ring Cycle ...

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 ...

Bayreuth, a small city in northern Bavaria, Germany, with a population of 74,000, is a city by Wagner, for Wagner, and of ...

Sam Klayman, going professionally as Clay, American-born, knows enough to name their hero’s secret identity Tom Mayflower, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - The founder of the Glyndebourne festival loved Wagner and performed excerpts from "Die Meistersinger" on the organ, but that was before the Nazis adopted the composer's longest ...

Tacoma Opera is launching its boldest project ever: a five-year plan to stage Wagner's four-part "Ring." It's an ambitious gamble for a company of this size and one that could reshape its future.

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, ...

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 ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Wagner College Opera presents a Spring double-bill of Moore's Gallantry and ...

Ivo van Hove’s stark production of Mozart’s classic has returned to the Metropolitan Opera with a uniformly excellent cast.

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 ...