The first thing you need to know about Saturday’s Met opera transmission is that it starts at 10 a.m., one hour earlier than usual. The second: it’s a four-and-a-half hour marathon. “Tannhäuser” is ...

In Francesca Zambello’s new Houston Grand Opera production of Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser (1845), in collaboration with Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, and Canadian Opera Company, the ...

The title character in Tannhäuser is a broken, flawed individual who can’t quite decide whether love or lust will be best for him. And although many call this one of if not the most accessible Wagner ...

James Levine conducts Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser with Johan Botha on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, March 13 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local schedule). Eva-Maria Westbroek, Michelle DeYoung, ...

In European culture lies the story of a man whose real life faded into the mists of time, only to be reborn as one of the continent’s most enduring legends. His name is Tannhäuser, a 13th-century ...

Baumgarten is the latest scion of the Felsenstein school, a pupil of Ruth Berghaus in Berlin, and intellectual heir to Götz Friedrich, Harry Kupfer and others from the Komische Oper and its purlieus ...

James Levine conducts a live performance of Wagner's "Tannhäuser," featuring tenor Johan Botha, soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek, baritone Peter Mattei and mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung. - Synopsis ...

In holistic medicine there is a therapy called a “Sound Bath” that heals by immersing the individual in an all-consuming, meditative world of music and song. That is certainly the experience offered ...