This October, BK Opera will present Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. Directed by the award-winning Kate Millett calls it the “Mount Everest of opera” – choosing the monumental work as the summit ...

Das Rheingold is the first of the four music dramas which make up Wagner's epic Ring cycle: when a precious hoard of gold is stolen from the river Rhine, it unleashes a chain of destructive events, ...

A Berlin production of “The Flying Dutchman” transforms Wagner’s opera into a provocative allegory amid fears of political ...

The national opera company is returning to its traditional Melbourne home for the first time in more than four years, with a gala performance of Wagner. Opera Australia last performed at the State ...

Operas include Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Parsifal, Tristan und Isolde and The Mastersingers of Nuremberg. Works by Meyerbeer, Liszt, Faure and Oscar Straus are also included. Singers include Stuart ...

For the first time in its 150-year history, the Bayreuth Festival staged Wagner’s Rienzi, Hitler’s favorite opera, reopening questions about propaganda and antisemitism. ‘In that hour, it all began.” ...

Alongside successes in resourcing and logistics, this production reveals a further leap forward in terms of artistic merit. Director Suzanne Chaundy and conductor David Kram bring dramatic clarity, ...

The company marks 25 years of independent operation with four major productions, including Parsifal, Rigoletto and Tosca.

The great Italian composer Rossini was not a fan of Lohengrin: "One can't judge it after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time," he said. The parts came together very ...