Last week, I wrote two stories about the Washington National Opera's "Tristan und Isolde," which opened Sunday afternoon at the Kennedy Center. One of the stories was about the eleventh-hour ...

I’m not sure how the conversation started, but an opera friend of mine asked if I had ever heard soprano Leontyne Price's rendition of “The Liebestod” or “Love-Death” from Richard Wagner’s Tristan und ...

Richard Maxwell’s new play is about myth, memory, and a house that never gets built. Lighter and more sardonic than the playwright-director’s recent work (especially 2013’s densely poetic Neutral Hero ...

Expectations run high when Seattle Opera presents Wagner. Because of the company’s storied history with that composer’s monumental works, operagoers were prepared for great music on opening night of ...

“Our intentions are anachronistic,” said the German director Roland Schwab about his Bayreuth Festival production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, adding, “I want to achieve a sense of escapism.” That ...

This image released by the Philadelphia Opera shows Soprano Nina Stemme, from top left, tenor Stuart Skelton, and baritone Brian Mulligan, with the Philadelphia Orchestra led by music director Yannick ...

"I am confident that this will become a milestone that elevates the standard of Korean opera to the next level." (Choi Sangho, Director of the ...