The Bayreuth Festival is celebrating its anniversary with a ceremony and music by Beethoven: 150 years ago, composer Richard ...

The Bayreuth Festival is marking its founding anniversary with a ceremony and a performance of Beethoven, as the world-famous ...

In the long intervals that the programme at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus allows between the individual acts of its operas, ...

The Bayreuth Festival, where Wagner’s operas have been performed for 150 years, is inconvenient and unpleasant. Why does it ...

San Francisco Opera has announced its 2026-27 season, featuring productions of Simon Boccanegra, Mary, Queen of Scots, Manon, ...

Nicholas Brownlee and his powerful bass-baritone voice went from small-town Alabama to the top of the opera world, performing ...

Nicholas Brownlee had just fallen in love with opera and was eager to see if his emerging bass-baritone voice could handle ...

Explore 25 of the most celebrated composers in history, from medieval pioneers to Romantic masters. Discover their ...

Nicholas Brownlee had just fallen in love with opera and was eager to see if his emerging bass-baritone voice could handle ...

"There is nothing in Korea you can compare to 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' except 'Toji,'" said bass-baritone Samuel Youn, invoking t ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It takes a certain nerve to go out on stage in front of an angry audience. In 1976, the centenary of Wagner’s ...

The simplest and most full-blooded conception” is how Wagner described his opera Tristan and Isolde, which received a tremendous concert performance by a stellar cast and the LSO under Antonio ...