It's a love that has only recently developed after years of performing 'standard' repertoire. "I discovered the universe of Glass, Reich, and Adams a long time ago," Wagner tells Apple Music, "but I ...

A) Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer, who provided the soundtrack for the Third Reich, albeit 50 years after his death. B) Classical music’s most infamously outspoken anti-Semite. C) A willful, ...

If, like me, you prefer your opera recordings to be heard and not seen, make an exception for this DVD of Peter Sellars’s remarkably lucid staging of John Adams’s Nixon in China. A work which, as ...

Sir John Tomlinson, whose thoughts specifically about the Prom Parsifal in which he sang the role of Gurnemanz follow below, says it all about clutter versus simplicity: “people talk about directors ...

Musically, it’s hard to imagine a finer Tristan und Isolde than the one that opened at the Deutsche Oper on Saturday. Dramatically, however, it’s a very different story. Michael Thalheimer’s staging, ...

Discover the world of Wagner, the controversial composer whose work has graced box office movies, kids’ cartoons and some of classical music’s longest, most brooding operas. Here’s how to get your ...

Feature documentary Wagner and Me has few surprises—it informs and entertains its audience and does so quite respectably. But what elevates the film above a standard “talking heads” doc, however, is ...

To mark the bicentennial of Richard Wagner's birth, WQXR offers a week of music and commentary on his life and works.