Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Tannhäuser "Tannhäuser and the Minnesingers' Contest at Wartburg") is an 1845 opera in three acts ...

On Friday, the Houston Grand Opera performed a new staging of Richard Wagner’s "Tannhäuser" whose setting comprised both hits and misses, but whose several highlights included the rousing singing of ...

Tannhäuser is an 1845 opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on two German legends: Tannhäuser, the legendary medieval German Minnesänger and poet, and the tale of the Wartburg ...

A new production of Richard Wagner’s “Tannhauser” opera in Dusseldorf, which drew harsh criticism for staging Nazi atrocities, has been cancelled after less than a week. At opening performances by the ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Met officials were forced to bring down the curtain halfway through the opera as protesters unfurled banners that read “No Opera On A Dead Planet.” ...

In Francesca Zambello’s new Houston Grand Opera production of Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser (1845), in collaboration with Washington National Opera, Seattle Opera, and Canadian Opera Company, the ...

The static nature of the rest of the evening, though, - Wagner’s problem, accentuated by Albery, though his living tableaux are well managed - is redeemed by exceptional singing-acting from Lisa ...

As the curtain goes up, we see a rocky grotto, with reclining nymphs and dancing naiads. Tannhauser rests his head in the lap of his temptress, the voluptuous Venus. That's what's happening on stage ...

If you are an errant knight who has spent a year with Venus, the goddess of love, you might anticipate her anger as a woman scorned when you wish to leave. Thus we meet the medieval German knight ...

BERLIN (AP) — A modern production of Richard Wagner's opera "Tannhauser" has caused a stir in Germany because of Nazi-themed scenes showing people dying in gas chambers and a family having their heads ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Wild ovations resonated as 200 spectators paid tribute to the musicians who brought Richard Wagner's opera "Tannhauser" to the Bayreuth stage. The scene from this year's 99th ...