Daniel Barenboim, when I spoke to him before his Sydney tour last year, gave a very good definition of compassion as a “moral attitude” when he was discussing the seemingly intractable conflict ...

As a composer, Wagner stands among the giants. He made a monumental contribution to music with operas like Der Ring des Nibelungen, Tannhauser and Parsifal, a body of work that sounds to many of his ...

Wagner’s final opera comes to Glyndebourne this week. Why will the composer and his wife be turning in their graves? Michael Downes looks at the family’s attempts to keep Parsifal in Bayreuth When ...

Dmitri Tcherniakov’s unconventional, disturbing, yet ultimately illuminating staging of Wagner’s final enigmatic work ruffled a lot of feathers when it was unveiled as part of last year’s Festtage at ...

BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — A giant swan sailed into auditorium and crashed, felled by a huge arrow still protruding. Flowers burst into bloom, radiant in red and green, pink and blue. In the theater ...

Wagner predomina en Madrid, con las visitas del Festival de Bayreuth y el todavía en activo Barenboim, mientras Aranjuez ...