The second half of the 2025–26 season opens with a Wagner event for the ages, as blazing soprano Lise Davidsen headlines the composer’s all-consuming epic Tristan und Isolde after years of ...

These are not normal times. Why should we expect a normal Wagner production? This certainly won’t be the review that takes a one-plank platform criticizing the Lyric Opera for producing the work of a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Romeo Castellucci’s production of Wagner’s “Ring” at La Monnaie embodies ideas that the Metropolitan Opera should take note of for ...

Magnolias were in full bloom in Dresden on a spring day. After getting off the train, a 20-minute walk toward the city center leads to encounters with a succession of historic palaces, churches, and ...

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 ...

It is considered the "most German" of Richard Wagner's operas. Adolf Hitler used the work for his propaganda purposes. Productions of Wagner's opera "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" divide audiences.