Tristan und Isolde is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan and Iseult by Gottfried von Strassburg. It was ...

During Germany’s last 150 years, a king has been dethroned, a kaiser has abdicated, and a dictator has fallen, but on the Green Hill in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth, one thing has stood the test of ...

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. In ...

Der fliegende Holländer, The Flying Dutchman, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner. The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship that can never make port, doomed to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. German Singer Peter Seiffert stands as Tannhaeuser on the stage of the Staatsoper im Schillertheater in Berlin during the ...

BAYREUTH, Germany, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Former German infantryman Hans Himsel lived through scenes in 1944 at the Bayreuth opera house worthy of the finale of Richard Wagner's "Gotterdammerung" when ...

BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) - Former German infantryman Hans Himsel lived through scenes in 1944 at the Bayreuth opera house worthy of the finale of Richard Wagner's "Gotterdammerung" when Valhalla ...