From the early succès de scandale of Salome to a golden Indian summer, Richard Strauss’ long career spanned eight decades.

Considered the father of Danish contemporary music, he aspired to works in which “everything came out of a single note,” he ...

Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the Philadelphia Orchestra in the first of two full concert performances of Wagner’s 1865 masterpiece.

Séguin's production outing at the Metropolitan Opera next season, but The Philadelphians' performance will be hard to match ...

A German tenor, he was admired for his clear, powerful voice and his exceptional stamina during hourslong performances.

She played her first wedding when she was 16 years old. Born and raised in Charlottesville, she still remembers her first ...

The composer is an undeniable part of the classical music canon. Does that change the meaning of his radical early work?

What do you do when you’ve done the Ring? Longborough Festival Opera has built a great reputation for its economical stagings ...

One of the major attractions for tourists visiting Europe is its rich and vast collection of castles, that are scattered ...

It may have taken 90 years, but Glyndebourne has finally staged its first "Parsifal". The opera house's founder, John ...

*Dedicated to the memory of Elchanan Kalmanson, 42 years of age and a father of five from the Judean Hills community of ...

Richard Wagner may, in the words of WH Auden ... Cosima—helped cultivate a particular version of the great composer from which he has arguably never quite recovered. Adolf Hitler was a fan of ...