Wagner Controversy Opera Cancels Holocaust Staging of 'Tannhäuser' A staging of Richard Wagner's "Tannhäuser" -- set during the Holocaust and including a gas chamber and a shooting scene -- shocked ...

But what music! Wagner's Overture to Tannhäuser is justly seen as a masterpiece in its own right, but under Donald Runnicles the orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin pushed the music along with an almost ...

The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s new music director, Andris Nelsons, has been in place for barely two months, and already his first CD with the orchestra is out. It’s a heavyweight disc, the Overture ...

It looks like, and sometimes is, a director’s (hence an audience’s) nightmare. In Bayreuth, where I last saw it, it was set in a biogas recycling plant, Venus gave birth to the baby Jesus, watched ...

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, which opened ...

Daniel Barenboim is slowly making his way through Richard Wagner’s mature operas in concert performances with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Thursday at Symphony Center, he arrived at “Tannhaeuser,” ...