Professor Plamen Kartaloff's legacy as the director of Sofia Opera is guided by his deep commitment to artistic integrity and ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Irene Theorin, left, as Brünnhilde and Daniel Brenna as Siegfried embrace for Richard Wagner's four-part "Ring" cycle, ...

As my uncle Cal’s mind and body started to deteriorate, he couldn’t have sex anymore, so he made increasingly sensual paintings. This is his 1988 painting Venusberg, a depiction of the subterranean ...

Atlanta Opera's magisterial production of “Twilight of the Gods,” the grand finale of the four-year "Ring" cycle, marks the ...

Robert Wierzel has lit opera on stages in Paris, Tokyo, Toronto, San Francisco, and dozens of stops in between. But when the ...

A new production of Richard Wagner’s “Tannhauser” opera in Dusseldorf, which drew harsh criticism for staging Nazi atrocities, has been cancelled after less than a week. At opening performances by the ...

Call it “Siegfried” and chill, or maybe bingeable Wagner. The Atlanta Opera’s upcoming production of “Siegfried” is the third opera in Robert Wagner’s four-opera “Der Ring des Nibelungen” cycle. A ...

The Welsh-Ukrainian singer Natalya Romaniw was a late addition to a new “Die Walküre” in London, but she has become a highlight of the production. By Hugh Morris Reporting from London In Wagner’s ...

Richard Wagner's "The Flying Dutchman" is a problem opera with its stillborn plot and its slow first act. Still, it has ardent supporters - not those who left after Act I, but the wildly cheering ones ...

He had never produced a performance when he was hired as the company’s general director in 1983. But over 31 years (and lots ...