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A mini-festival of sopranos in NYC offered mid-season delights for opera lovers pining for the Met.

A review of Richard Wagner: The Last of the Titans by Joachim Köhler.

There are a lot of corpses on stage at the end of Charles Edwards’s production of Tristan & Isolde for Grange Park Opera. At this stage in the drama, directors tend to fade out the bloodbath, the better to focus on Isolde’s final dissolution into bliss. But as Michael Tanner argues, Tristan, like the Ring,

Who's who and what's what is what inspires HELEN MUSA's "Arts in the City" column. Here's this week's...

However, the orchestras take on Claude Debussys "La Mer" was overly loud and somewhat disappointing.

A programme of Borodin, Wagner, and Brahms/Schönberg in the Thailand Cultural Centre on Sept 2 afforded the Royal Bangkok Symphony Orchestra the opportunity to demonstrate their ability to perform at both the quietest and loudest of dynamics. Experienced Greek conductor Myron Michailidis and Italian mezzo-soprano Lucrezia Venturiello made their Thailand debuts, and certainly both made a very positive impression on the audience. The concert began with Alexander Borodin's Polovtsian Dances f...

This biography of Minna Planer, Richard Wagner's wife of 30 years, reveals her as a self-assured woman and artist who was vital to her husband's creative lif...

Carmen opens the season on July 1 in a new production starring three-time Grammy Award-winning mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard.

Ronen Chamber Ensemble traipsed us across the 19th and 20th Centuries with a close-to-the-bone historic program curated by Gregory Martin.