“It’s like an international flight,” whined a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s audience within earshot of me the last time that Richard Wagner’s longest opera, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, was ...

Two of the weekend’s programs at Tanglewood consisted of popular standards by Beethoven, Bruch and Dvorak, with the Boston Symphony under guest conductor Herbert Blomstedt. The centerpiece concert, in ...

Wagner, it has to be said, is a composer that provokes strong reactions from audiences. There are those who cherish every single second and those who would never be caught dead enduring over five ...

Richard Wagners grandson Wolfgang Wagner staged and directed this performance of the legendary composers most human of musical dramas at the 1984 Bayreuth Festival Horst Stein directs the Bayreuth ...