All this week on The Full Score, we'll hear highlights from Chamber Choir Ireland's Christmas 2023 concert, 'Seeing the Star' ...
The great ballerinas of the 19th century were perhaps the first modern celebrities. Rather than bare all, their images cultivated a mysterious, supernatural aura that made them seem unattainable.
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 ...
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 title character in Tannhäuser is a broken, flawed individual who can’t quite decide whether love or lust will be best for him. And although many call this one of if not the most accessible Wagner ...
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Smelly and intoxicated by drugs in his self-imposed isolation or as a party crasher in the Landgrave's lofty hall, somehow the once acclaimed singer Tannhäuser no longer seems to get a foot on the ...
“Free in will! Free in deed! Free in enjoyment!” was a youthful slogan of Richard Wagner. Taken from one of his theoretical works written around the time of his participation in the Revolution of 1848 ...
A bumpy revival of Otto Schenk’s 1978 opera briefly broke down in pandemonium as climate protestors hijacked the second act and patrons responded with vocal displays of their own. Moving from a ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Climate protesters caused a pair of interruptions totaling 22 minutes during the opening night of a revival of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser” at the Metropolitan Opera. Christian Gerhaher, a ...