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 ...

Internationally acclaimed Wagnerian tenor Andreas Schager will perform at the Hungarian State Opera on November 15 as part of ...

It's one of the great epics of Western civilization, a four-part drama of family dysfunction and betrayal, of gods and mortals, giants and dwarfs, sacrifice and ultimate cleansing and renewal by fire ...

The world had plenty of reasons to forget Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle, “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” None of the four makes sense without the others—they premiered together in 1876—but the prospect ...

A new production of Richard Wagner’s “Tannhauser” opera in Dusseldorf, which drew harsh criticism for staging Nazi atrocities, has been cancelled after less than a week. At opening performances by the ...

During Germany’s last 150 years, a king has been dethroned, a kaiser has abdicated, and a dictator has fallen, but on the Green Hill in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth, one thing has stood the test of ...

As my uncle Cal’s mind and body started to deteriorate, he couldn’t have sex anymore, so he made increasingly sensual paintings. This is his 1988 painting Venusberg, a depiction of the subterranean ...