AP - Jul 1, 2008
Germany s annual Bayreuth opera festival is going digital, streaming video and audio of its opening performance of Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg live via the Internet. The catch is the price — $...
More »AP - Apr 29, 2008
Wolfgang Wagner, the longtime director of the annual festival of Richard Wagner s operas, said in a letter issued Tuesday that he will step down after leading the event for nearly six decades. The letter...
More »AP - Mar 14, 2008
First Tristan, now Isolde. Already missing tenor Ben Heppner because of a virus, the Metropolitan Opera s revival of Richard Wagner s Tristan und Isolde lost Deborah Voigt in the middle of the second...
More »AP - Oct 17, 2007
An opera by Richard Wagner — whose music and anti-Semitic writings influenced Adolf Hitler — will be performed at an open-air theater built under the Nazis by an orchestra made up of Israeli...
More »AP - Aug 8, 2007
A collection of recordings taken from Adolf Hitler s headquarters at the end of World War II includes works by Jewish musicians and Russian composers, according to a German magazine report. The weekly...
More »AP - Jul 26, 2007
With Katharina Wagner in the bidding as the next possible leader of the Bayreuth festival, her production of Die Meistersinger von Nuernberg is being debated with a zeal unusual even for the venue —...
More »AP - Jul 22, 2007
A real-life drama of succession as riveting as any Richard Wagner opera is casting a shadow over this year s Bayreuth Festival, raising the anticipation level among devotees of the German master even...
More »AP - Jul 20, 2007
Richard Wagner dreamed of doing it this way: The four operas of his Ring cycle performed over four consecutive nights, totaling more than 18 hours of musical theater. When the final curtain came down...
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