Germany’s Richard Wagner also played a key role in developing the operatic genre.Before Wagner, the action and music in opera was split into short pieces or 'numbers' much like a modern-day musical ...

the "much praised" production explores how Wagner's music became associated with Nazism and the fascinating question of who controls the narrative of an artist's work after they're gone. Opera ...

Wagner devotees abroad take their opera seriously and in large doses ... with a schnitzel and a grosses dunkeles. But the music is given complete. There is no slicing for comfort or convenience.

Katharina Wagner says she has learnt to live with the positives and the negatives of her famous forebear. A renowned artistic ...

This concert is dedicated to Marianne Auld/Kelly Hart and HallmanWagner’s opera The Flying Dutchman is an eerie tale of redemption ...

Wagner was finally able to return to his homeland in 1862 where he continued work on his biggest undertaking: The Ring Cycle – a set of four operas or "Music Dramas" (he hated the word 'opera ...

The Boston Wagner Society has unveiled plans to transform its prestigious Boston Wagner Institute (BWI) into a landmark biennial program that will establish New England as America's premier hub for ...

and Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego,” from 2022. There will be new stagings of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde,” directed by Yuval Sharon ...

Opera: Propaganda and Musical Theatre in Nuremberg, says – mainly via Wagner, whom Hitler has forever ... (including his essay On Jewishness in Music, which bemoans the effect of Jews ...