The Metropolitan Opera has been feeding us one audience favorite after another this fall, and the latest hit to arrive is Richard Wagner's "Tannhauser." When it comes to operatic composers -- at least ...

Of all the mature operas of Richard Wagner, “Tannhauser” requires perhaps the greatest indulgence from all but the most uncritical of Wagnerites. For one thing, it is long and repetitious, lasting ...

The director of the controversial new production of Wagner’s “Tannhauser” that made ample use of Nazi imagery -- including swastikas on costumes and a set that featured a pseudo-gas chamber -- has ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. Johan Botha in the title role and Eva-Maria Westbroek as Elisabeth. Photo: Marty ...

THE final arrivals from the Deutsche Oper Berlin were just a nail-biting few hours before this performance of Wagner’s four-hour epic began, a train journey from London replacing a cancelled flight.

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. All that was missing were shouts of “food fight!” to turn last night’s performance ...