Despite the world’s having been consigned to perdition a few moments before, the capacity crowd of Ringheads was in heaven. A storm of applause greeted the cast, conductor and stage director at the ...

Reprinted from yesterday's late editionsWith the news of the recent death of the great Wagnerian soprano Birgit Nilsson, it was fitting that the National Symphony Orchestra entered into the ...

Opera singer Jess Thomas, one of the greatest Wagnerian tenors of the last half-century, died Monday night at his Tiburon home after suffering a heart attack. He was 66. Mr. Thomas, who made his debut ...

Birgit Nilsson, the Swedish farmer’s daughter who became renowned in the world’s great opera houses for her dazzling voice and among colleagues for her playful sense of humor, has died at age 87. She ...

The audience voted, the orchestra voted, and the judges also voted. Excitement ran high in McCaw Hall for the third International Wagner Competition, with nine competing singers who have the potential ...

Love, death, sex, betrayal and a tribe of rambunctious Valkyries: “Die Walküre” has it all, and it’s no wonder this one is usually the most popular of the four “Ring” operas. After Sunday’s stellar ...

Wagnerian parlayed clear sailing and firm footing to a half-length victory in the 85th running of the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby, G1) May 27 at Tokyo Racecourse. Previously undefeated favorite Danon ...

Peter Seiffert in Tristan und Isolde at Vienna State Opera in 2013 - Dieter Nagl/AFP/Getty Images Peter Seiffert, who has died aged 71, was a German tenor known for his hefty Wagnerian roles, notably ...

BAYREUTH, Germany — The word we still use is “pilgrimage,” for, as Mark Twain put it back in 1891, “a pilgrimage is what it is.” Each summer, tens of thousands of true believers shuffle their way up a ...

Hildegard Behrens, a soprano who was one of the finest Wagnerian performers of her generation, has died while traveling in Japan. She was 72. Jonathan Friend, artistic administrator of the ...