Donald Runnicles lets his Wagnerian principals take the limelight (Clay Hilley and Emma Bell on the right)All images by Mihaela Bodlovic He doesn’t, of course, and the remaining three hours of the ...
Withholding his full musical sorcery until the last possible moment, Wagner’s flawed masterpiece displays all the self-control of an experienced tantric sex practitioner. Musically speaking, Deutsche ...
Kirsten Harms' 2008 production of "Tannhäuser," which was revived last season, took the stage again this month. The opera boldly challenges the... Any feminist reading of "Tannhäuser" faces its share ...
The festival’s concert staging with Donald Runnicles conducting the Deutsche Oper brought Wagner’s score to life, with Clay Hilley in command of the lead role’s technical challenges With no fully ...
Axel Kober’s superb conducting sets the seal on a magnificent revival of Wagner’s tale about the evils of carnal desire at the Deutsche Oper Kirsten Harms’ oft-revived 2008 staging is both abstract ...
Düsseldorf’s Deutsche Oper am Rhein has been forced to cancel its controversial production of Wagner’s Tannhäuser after certain scenes proved too harrowing for audiences. Director Burkhard C Kosminski ...
But what music! Wagner's Overture to Tannhäuser is justly seen as a masterpiece in its own right, but under Donald Runnicles the orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin pushed the music along with an almost ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Larger-than-life gargoyles leer at the audience from the gauze, bat-winged demons descend from the heavens and ...
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