See photos from the Metropolitan Opera’s new production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, starring Lise Davidsen and Michael ...

Opera director Yuval Sharon has said that Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" is the hardest work in the traditional repertoire to stage.

Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde is one of opera’s hardest to put on, but Yuval Sharon – who makes his Met debut – loves a ...

Conductor Juraj Valčuha ably coordinated and balanced the orchestra and the singers, while drawing out the dramatic effects ...

Regional opera companies always take a pause before they produce operas by Richard Wagner. The German composer has a big reputation for grand titles that unfold at a snail’s pace. Wagner’s famous ...

This summer’s Seattle Opera performances of Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung may or may not be the last go-round for the current production directed by Stephen Wadsworth—what’s been termed ...

Tristan und Isolde is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner to a German libretto by the composer, based largely on the 12th-century romance Tristan and Iseult by Gottfried von Strassburg. It was ...

As is its tradition, Seattle Opera opens its new season on Saturday with an opera by Richard Wagner. “Lohengrin,” a mythic story of a mysterious knight with powers so strong he can save a kingdom, is ...

Can the bombastic — say, women galloping through the sky on horses, carrying heroes’ corpses and sing-shouting “Hoyotoho! Hoyotoho! Heiaha! Heiaha!” — also be beautiful? It can when accompanied by one ...