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 ...

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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 ...

The death of Vincenzo Bellini at just 33 years of age was unequivocally a tragic loss to the world of opera. The libretto for his final work…not so much. After a 35 year absence, Bellini’s “I Puritani ...