In a glorious black and white scene (exquisitely dressed by Set and Costume Designer Gottfried Pilz), where the best song will win the hand of the fair Elisabeth, Tannhauser, still glowing from his ...

Of all the mature operas of Richard Wagner, “Tannhauser” requires perhaps the greatest indulgence from all but the most uncritical of Wagnerites. For one thing, it is long and repetitious, lasting ...

Though the majesty of the music may be what initially attracts people to Wagner, it’s the intellectual and emotional depth of his operas that turns fans into addicts. Wagner’s operas operate on the ...

There was more than the usual amount of opening night buzz Tuesday at the War Memorial Opera House, as the San Francisco Opera unveiled its new production of “Tannhauser.” Wagner’s opera hadn’t been ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Johan Botha in the title role and Eva-Maria Westbroek as Elisabeth. Photo: Marty ...

British conductor Mark Elder and an all-star cast perform Wagner's first operatic song-contest (the second being The Mastersingers of Nuremberg). The minstrel knight Tannhauser is torn between the ...

The Venusberg grotto as a Studio 54-type disco dripping with punkers and hip decadence? The Wartburg hall of minstrels as Dick Clark`s ”American Bandstand”? The chaste Elisabeth and the minstrel ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. With this expansive new production of Tannhauser, Melbourne Opera takes not just a great leap forward but a hop-skip-and-jump across the ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. All that was missing were shouts of “food fight!” to turn last night’s performance ...

The Metropolitan Opera presents Richard Wagner's Tannhauser, live in HD from the Met in New York, in movie theaters worldwide on Saturday, October 31 at 1 pm. Richard Wagner (1813-1883) reinvented the ...