Bryn Terfel takes the title role with Elisabet Strid as Senta in Wagner's undisputed masterpiece, The Flying Dutchman: Recorded at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. Forced by a terrible storm to ...

Lohengrin, Movements: Prelude James Levine, Conductor New York Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Richard Wagner, Composer (Der) Ring des Nibelungen: Part 2, '(Die) Walküre', Movements: Ride of the ...

Come hear the most popular melodies, arias and orchestral excerpts from Richard Wagner's operas at the closing event of the Budapest Wagner Days festival! First held in 2023 and are now presented for ...

What do Liz Lemon, Bugs Bunny and Apocalypse Now have in common? A love of Wagner might not be the first thing that springs to mind. But these are just some of the places in popular culture the German ...

In 1993 Leigh Sachwitz packed a single suitcase and left her native Glasgow for Berlin on a one-way ticket in search of adventure. An architecture graduate from the Glasgow School of Art, Sachwitz ...

The Swedish soprano spoke to us ahead of her Royal Opera House performances as Brünnhilde in Barrie Kosky’s new staging of Wagner’s Siegfried Swedish soprano Elisabet Strid has become one of the most ...

With a handful of musicians playing a skilfully reduced score and a minimal staging by Caroline Staunton, this Ring cycle is an intense and involving experience Regents Opera are staging their first ...

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

The ambitious Saffron Opera Group’s concert performance of Wagner’s opera had lost its leading man, but the orchestra proved more of a problem Outside, interval conversation involves the intermittent ...

A German tenor, he was admired for his clear, powerful voice and his exceptional stamina during hourslong performances. By Adam Nossiter Peter Seiffert, a German tenor admired for his clear, powerful ...