Opera director Yuval Sharon has said that Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” is the hardest work in the traditional repertoire to ...

Yuval Sharon’s debut production featured an astonishing performance by the soprano Lise Davidsen. It is the event of the season.

See photos from the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, starring Lise Davidsen and Michael ...

Opera Santa Barbara (OSB) will close its unexpected 2020-21 season with the company premiere of its first Richard Wagner opera “Das Rheingold.” The only performance will be 2:30 p.m. Sunday, June 27 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — About 4 1/2 hours after the first notes of Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde,” a startling sound emerges from the wings, one many in the audience likely have never heard before. A nearly ...

HOLLYWOOD, prepare to witness a live blockbuster. L.A. Opera will debut the first part of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, “Das Rheingold,” on Saturday, a moment long in coming to Los Angeles that was first ...

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 ...

Surging, rhythmic string music punctuated by piercing horn sounds. Powerful, spine-tingling arias sung at hair-splitting volumes. And then there’s the scene, the one everyone knows even if they’ve ...

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 ...

Das Rheingold is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen or The Ring of the Nibelung. It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre ...

Der fliegende Holländer, The Flying Dutchman, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner. The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship that can never make port, doomed to ...