Tenor Joseph Calleja withdrew Monday from the title role in “Parsifal” that opens the annual Richard Wagner Festival at Bayreuth, Germany, and will be replaced by Andreas Schager. Calleja, who had ...

BERLIN — Siegfried, the dragon-slaying hero of Richard Wagner’s monumental “Ring” cycle, is one of the most punishing operatic parts ever written. To Conquer a Tough Role, Start Light “Siegfried doesn ...

BAYREUTH, Germany — Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson's phone rang in his Icelandic highlands cabin back in January 2022. Katharina Wagner, the Bayreuth festival director and great-granddaughter of composer ...

The red carpet is fixed in front of the Festspielhaus for the opening of the Bayreuth Richard Wagner Festival in Bayreuth, Germany, Tuesday July 25, 2023. (Karl-Josef Hildenbrand/dpa via AP) BAYREUTH, ...

Orphaned at birth, Siegfried learns his true identity and fulfills his destiny to become Brünnhilde’s savior and lover. Tenors Stefan Vinke and Andreas Schager sing the heroic title character.

Mit einer hochkarätig besetzten "Fledermaus" von Johann Strauß feiert das Haus am Ring traditioneller Weise den krönenden ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Tenor Joseph Calleja withdrew Monday from ...

BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — Icelandic director Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson’s production of “Tristan und Isolde” at the Bayreuth Festival is becomes a psychoanalytic examination of self-loathing and ...