nepalnepal — Wartburg Castle has fallen on hard times in Tim Albery’s dark vision of Richard Wagner’s opera “Tannhaeuser.” The people are at war, and their fortress lies in ruins. His new staging, ...

The first thing you need to know about Saturday’s Met opera transmission is that it starts at 10 a.m., one hour earlier than usual. The second: it’s a four-and-a-half hour marathon. “Tannhäuser” is ...

In Francesca Zambello’s new Houston Grand Opera production of Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser (1845), in collaboration with Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, and Canadian Opera Company, the ...

The title character in Tannhäuser is a broken, flawed individual who can’t quite decide whether love or lust will be best for him. And although many call this one of if not the most accessible Wagner ...

James Levine conducts Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser with Johan Botha on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, March 13 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local schedule). Eva-Maria Westbroek, Michelle DeYoung, ...

In holistic medicine there is a therapy called a “Sound Bath” that heals by immersing the individual in an all-consuming, meditative world of music and song. That is certainly the experience offered ...

GP at the Met: Tannhäuser premieres March 13, 2016 at noon (check local schedule). History, myth, and invention come together in Tannhäuser, which had its world premiere in October 1845 at the Court ...

Wagner's published writings repeatedly model a motivating tension between spectacle and narrative, attraction and absorption, grand opera and German romantic opera. The recurring terminological ...

Three central Jewish thinkers, Heinrich Heine, Theodor Herzl, and I. L. Peretz were all profoundly inspired by the medieval legend of Tannhäuser, a knight and poet who worshipped the goddess Venus.

BAYREUTH, Germany There is a general and well-founded perception of the Bayreuth Festival as an elitist stronghold for opera, as much a shrine to Wagner as a festival of his works. And there is no ...

In holistic medicine there is a therapy called a “Sound Bath” that heals by immersing the individual in an all-consuming, meditative world of music and song. That is certainly the experience offered ...