But what music! Wagner's Overture to Tannhäuser is justly seen as a masterpiece in its own right, but under Donald Runnicles the orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin pushed the music along with an almost ...

Richard Wagner never wrote for saxophone. Too bad. It would have been just the thing for Los Angeles Opera’s new production of “Tannhäuser.” You know what a bacchanalia is, right? You could look it up ...

Tannhäuser (Neal Cooper) cheers them all up with his account of love in the VenusbergMatthew Williams-Ellis But what was left is a patchwork of early and late, conventional and inspired, and a ...

Wagner's Tannhäuser is a masterpiece. Lasting four and a half hours, including two half-hour intervals, it thrills the audience with unceasing action and glorious music that just gets more and more ...