Deutsche Grammophon has just released a film of Anna Netrebko singing 'Mild und Leise' - Isolde's Liebestod – from Wagner's Tristan und Isolde. Taken from her new album, 'Amata dalle tenebre' - the ...

Runners in the Vienna Marathon passed the State Opera House on the Ringstrasse at midday Sunday. A few hours later, Deborah Voigt had a marathon of her own inside the house _ singing her first staged ...

The first Tristan and Isolde, June 10, 1865: Ludwig Schnorr von Caroldsfeld and his wife, Helena Schnorr von Carolsfeld. Ludwig dropped dead five days after the performance! There are learned people ...

Last week, I wrote two stories about the Washington National Opera's "Tristan und Isolde," which opened Sunday afternoon at the Kennedy Center. One of the stories was about the eleventh-hour ...

Paul Curran makes his Company debut directing his production from Venice’s Teatro La Fenice which features renowned Wagnerian interpreters Simon O’Neill and Anja Kampe in the title roles. Rooted in ...

When Richard Wagner built his own theater in Bayreuth, Germany, he designed it so that attention would be focused on the singers. As central as music is in his operas, the musicians themselves played ...