A bold restaging of Tristan und Isolde arrives at a moment of intense concern about the cultural inheritance of Western ...
Former German infantryman Hans Himsel lived through scenes in 1944 at the Bayreuth opera house worthy of the finale of Richard Wagner’s “Gotterdammerung” when Valhalla goes up in flames. In this ...
A descendant of Richard Wagner, Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer, promised to hand over the correspondence of her late father to the Bavarian State Archives. Katharina Wagner, a great-granddaughter of ...
Staging any opera is rarely a modest undertaking, but if that opera happens to be by Richard Wagner, “modest” must go out the window. Typically, one needs a large theater, an outsized orchestra, and ...
With Siegfried, staged in Calixto Bieito’s new production, the Paris Opera presents the third part of Richard Wagner’s extraordinary undertaking, the Ring of the Nibelung. Siegfried, the son of ...
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