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With a team of researchers and dedicated musicians, the conductor Kent Nagano is taking a historically informed performance approach to Wagner’s epic. By Joshua Barone Reporting from Amsterdam What ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Two conductors — a mentor and a protégé, both trained as pianists — bring precision and lyricism to the first new staging of Wagner’s epic in a decade ...