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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sara Jakubiak as Elisabeth and Issachah Savage as Tannhäuser perform during a dress rehearsal of Los Angeles Opera's "Tannhäuser" ...

Wagner’s opera of extremes is directed with striking simplicity, but John Treleaven’s tormented Tannhäuser grates on the ear Pilgrimage to Rome is a central part of Wagner’s early opera Tannhäuser, so ...

The Metropolitan Opera presents Richard Wagner’s melodious opera, “Tannhäuser,” HD broadcast this Saturday, Oct. 31. In view of the opera length, the broadcast will begin at 10 a.m. Having been a ...

The first thing you need to know about Saturday’s Met opera transmission is that it starts at 10 a.m., one hour earlier than usual. The second: it’s a four-and-a-half hour marathon. “Tannhäuser” is ...

GP at the Met: Tannhäuser premieres March 13, 2016 at noon (check local schedule). History, myth, and invention come together in Tannhäuser, which had its world premiere in October 1845 at the Court ...

There are other things going on, for better or worse, in the San Francisco Opera's new production of Wagner's "Tannhäuser," but one outshines the rest like a blazing burst of sunlight: the company ...

To ravish the senses or feed the soul? That is the question. And although Wagner posed it knowing full well that its significance would resonate through the ages – and no more so than now – he also ...

Wagner's Tannhäuser, an early work by my favourite composer based on an old German Faustian myth, is an opera that means more than most to me. It was while I was singing in a production of it in ...

Tannhäuser by Ferdinand von Piloty (1828-1895). Public domain. In this week’s OCS, Houston Public Media’s St.John Flynn and Eric Skelly of the River Oaks Chamber Orchestra give their laugh-filled take ...