In the long intervals that the programme at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus allows between the individual acts of its operas, ...

The Bayreuth Festival, where Wagner’s operas have been performed for 150 years, is inconvenient and unpleasant. Why does it ...

Nicholas Brownlee and his powerful bass-baritone voice went from small-town Alabama to the top of the opera world, performing ...

A few weeks before all four operas of Richard Wagner’s Ring des Nibelungen were premiered as a complete cycle in a ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It takes a certain nerve to go out on stage in front of an angry audience. In 1976, the centenary of Wagner’s ...

American mezzo-soprano Irene Roberts is in the midst of becoming one of the most in-demand Wagnerian singers of her generation. Over the past seasons, Roberts has performed the roles of Kundry, ...

ATLANTA — The Atlanta Opera announced a new event coming to the metro Atlanta area, but it’ll still be a few years before it’s seen. The opera said it would be putting on two complete cycles of ...

Thomas Søndergård is an opera man. Yes, he’s proved himself a skilled interpreter of orchestral repertoire during his three seasons as music director of the Minnesota Orchestra, especially with ...

Standout linebacker Bobby Wagner may not be on an NFL roster at the moment, but he should have plenty of options for his next career move. Those options expanded with the honorary doctorate he ...

Bobby Wagner has added another title to a résumé that already made him one of the greatest players in Seattle Seahawks history. The former Seahawks linebacker returned to Utah State, where he became ...

Opera Orlando’s 2026-27 season will encompass six productions, culminating with a centennial celebration of the American classic “Show Boat” presented in Steinmetz Hall at the Dr. Phillips Center for ...

Wagner College Opera will present Cindeerella, told through the many variations and settings this classic tale has inspired. Throughout history, the story of Cinderella has captured our hearts and ...