Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sara Jakubiak as Elisabeth and Issachah Savage as Tannhäuser perform during a dress rehearsal of Los Angeles Opera's "Tannhäuser" ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. There are two dominant images in Sebastian Baumgarten’s new production of Tannhäuser. One is a drum-like space ...

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 ...

Covent Garden’s latest offering this season is the second revival of Tim Albery’s production of Wagner’s eccentric masterpiece, Tannhäuser. Set in the 13th century, its story concerns a singer who ...

GP at the Met: Tannhäuser premieres March 13, 2016 at noon (check local schedule). History, myth, and invention come together in Tannhäuser, which had its world premiere in October 1845 at the Court ...

"What is the nature of true love?" One of many questions about life and art coiled at the heart of Tannhäuser's being that is left loitering in Tim Albery's production. In his defence, Wagner ...

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 ...

This isn’t the first time Tannhäuser has been the target of protests. December’s event in New York failed to halt the performance (“Five stars for the Met’s Tannhäuser, despite climate protest ...

In Berlin, history and politics dart across your path at every turn. This extends to musical life too. The headline event of Daniel Barenboim's Festtage, the annual spring festival organised by the ...

Three central Jewish thinkers, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Herzl, and I. L. Peretz were all profoundly inspired by the medieval legend of Tannhäuser, a knight and poet who worshipped the goddess Venus.

BAYREUTH, Germany There is a general and well-founded perception of the Bayreuth Festival as an elitist stronghold for opera, as much a shrine to Wagner as a festival of his works. And there is no ...

The long wait for Wagner has ended. After eight years, the flabbergasting master, monster and magician of Bayreuth is back at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion. The occasion is the return of the 2008 Los ...