Richard Wagner News

Get all the details about the upcoming performance of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman at The Lyric Opera of Chicago. From the storyline to the cast, this guide is a must-read for opera lovers and fans of Wagner's work.

La Orquesta Sinfónica Infantil de México (OSIM) se ha convertido en un gran semillero de talentos y detonador de vocaciones para la niñez y juventud en el país, quienes han encontrado en esta agrupación un sinfín de razones y motivos para dedicarse a la música o estar ligados para siempre a ella, expresó su director artístico y  titular del Sistema Nacional de Fomento Musical (SNFM), Roberto Rentería Yrene, en conferencia de prensa al dar a conocer los detalles de la 31 gira nacional de conciertos y con la cual la joven orquesta celebra 21 años de trayectoria.

Renowned baritone Michael Mayes is set to make a triumphant return to the prestigious Staatsoper Stuttgart for two roles in the upcoming 2023-2024 season.

Lohengrin by Richard Wagner will be performed at Opéra Bastille from 23 September to 27 October 2023.

BroadwayWorld has just learned that Andre De Shields is set to star in a concert presentation of Jim Steinman and Barry Keating's Rhinegold- a musical he first appeared in in 1973.

A range of 39 free events have been added to Edinburgh International Festival's 2023 programme, the first from incoming Festival Director Nicola Benedetti.

Seattle Opera will kick off its 23/24 season with Richard Wagner’s epic Das Rheingold in a stunning production by stage directorBrian Staufenbiel.

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra (HK Phil) has announced its 2023/24 Season, marking the orchestra's 50th professional season as well as the final season led by Jaap van Zweden as Music Director of the HK Phil.

Estrenada hace 150 años, la Tercera sinfonía, de Anton Bruckner, estremeció los cimientos del Palacio de Bellas Artes la noche de este viernes, con la interpretación de la Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (OSN), bajo la batuta de Lior Shambadal. 

Get a first look at Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's fairy-tale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten at San Francisco opera!

La Secretaría de Cultura federal y el Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal), a través de la Orquesta de Cámara de Bellas Artes (OCBA), estrenaron en México la Serenata para cuerdas en Sol menor de Vasily Kalinnikov, en la Sala Manuel M. Ponce del Palacio de Bellas Artes.  

Washington Performing Arts has announce its 2023/24 Season with the theme of Together in Art and Community, running from September 2023 through June 2024 in nine venues across the Washington, D.C., region.

La Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional (OSN) del Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Inbal) conmemoró el 30 aniversario luctuoso del compositor mexicano Blas Galindo y el 210 aniversario del natalicio y 140 aniversario luctuoso del alemán Richard Wagner en la Sala Principal del Palacio de Bellas Artes.  

The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera’s award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, presents Mozart's DIE ZAUBERFLOTE on Saturday, June 3 at 12:55 pm ET, in the Warner's Nancy Marine Studio Theatre.

The Dutch, or more precisely the Netherlandish, School was a style in 15th and 16th century painting represented by the van Eyck brothers, Rogier van der Weyden and Dieric Bouts, artists mainly based in Flandres.

Pianist Igor Levit, the San Francisco Symphony’s Artist-in-Residence for the 2022–23 season, joins Esa-Pekka Salonen and the Orchestra for two weeks of programs, June 15–27. Performances include Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 and Ferruccio Busoni’s Piano Concerto across two Orchestral Series programs with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony, in addition to a Great Performers Series solo recital and a chamber music performance with members of the Orchestra.  

The Met: Live in HD, the Metropolitan Opera's award-winning series of live high-definition cinema simulcasts, presents Mozart's DON GIOVANNI on Saturday, May 20 at 12:55 pm ET, in the Warner Theatre's Oneglia Auditorium (Main Stage). 

In a de-centralised exhibition from 5 to 29 May 2023, Haus der Kunst is showing works by the artist Rirkrit Tiravanija (b. 1961, Buenos Aires) at various sites in the building. In a first collaboration between Haus der Kunst and the Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich, the exhibition takes place at the same time as Toshio Hosokawa's opera Hanjo, which will be performed in the Westgalerie of Haus der Kunst and for which Rirkrit Tiravanija has created the stage design.

San Francisco Opera Presents Strauss and Hofmannsthal's 'Die Frau ohne San Francisco Opera presents Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal's fairy-tale opera Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow) from June 4–28 at the War Memorial Opera House.

There are no supernatural women arriving on horseback to escort slain warriors to the afterlife--just a trio of mermaids, a couple of giants and a loveless dwarf, along with a bunch of gods, demi-gods and grotesque humans in Richard Wagner’s DAS RHEINGOLD, the first part of the composer’s Ring cycle (officially DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN). Saturday night’s audience stayed to cheer the opening of General and Artistic Director Tomer Zvulun’s production after nearly three intermission-less hours.