This August 2024 photo shows director Thorleifur rn Arnarsson outside the Bayreuth Festpielhaus in Bayreuth, Germany during rehearsals for his production of Wagners Tristan und Isolde. (Thorleifur rn ...

Unconditional love – timeless music. Like Romeo and Juliet, Tristan and Isolde has become an expression of unconditional love. First performed in 1865, Wagner’s opera remains among the most ...

“Tristan and Isolde” is back at San Francisco Opera, 18 years after the company last performed Richard Wagner’s musical epic of love, betrayal and death. The production that opened on Saturday, Oct.

Literature and legend are rife with young lovers tragically undone by war, politics and cruel fate. Director Baz Luhrmann understood that the naïveté of teenagers in love is a force to be reckoned ...

BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson’s phone rang in his Icelandic highlands cabin back in January 2022. Katharina Wagner, the Bayreuth festival director and great-granddaughter of ...

Another masterpiece, this time the crowning achievement of the “Father of Modern Music,” was presented at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, last week, “The greatest music in the world,” said ...

BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson's phone rang in his Icelandic highlands cabin back in January 2022. Katharina Wagner, the Bayreuth festival director and great-granddaughter of ...