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

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

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"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 ...

Germany has produced some of the greatest compositional voices in history – many of whom are considered among the best across ...

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 ...

Opera has a way of grabbing you by the throat and refusing to let go. Even if you have never stepped inside an opera house, you have probably heard the soaring melodies or felt the emotional punch of ...

Fabio Luisi wanted his Ring Cycle to be heard and not seen. Wagner’s four-opera epic “Der Ring des Nibelungen,” approaching ...

The Metropolitan Opera House stands as one of the world’s most iconic stages for opera. Its gold curtain and vast auditorium have witnessed performances that defined vocal art for over a century. When ...