On a new production of Wagner’s Tannhäuser at the Zürich Opera House. The director Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson hails from Iceland but has done most of his work in Germany. Wagnerians notably encountered ...
In chapter 11 of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde's hero goes to the opera. As transgression and excess begin to rot that famous portrait, the piece to which he becomes obsessively drawn is ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Pick A revival of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” was notable for the arrival of Christian Gerhaher. But with an abrupt protest, the performance took a ...
Wagner’s opera of extremes is directed with striking simplicity, but John Treleaven’s tormented Tannhäuser grates on the ear Pilgrimage to Rome is a central part of Wagner’s early opera Tannhäuser, so ...