Richard Wagner News

Seattle Opera presents the ultimate story of love lost and regained this February with Gluck's Orphee et Eurydice, which runs for six performances from February 25 through March 10, 2012.

Joined by guest vocalists Michele Losier, mezzo-soprano, and Alisa Suzanne Jordheim, soprano, CSO Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni and the Columbus Symphony will perform works inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet and A Midsummer's Night Dream.

The Lyric Opera of Kansas City today announced the 2012-2013 season which will be held in the Muriel Kauffman Theatre in the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

Guest conductor Roberto Minczuk will lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a program featuring Wagner's Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Mozart's Symphony No. 35, ?Haffner, and Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier Suite.

The Dallas Opera will present Richard Wagner's intense and passionate drama, TRISTAN & ISOLDE, for the first time in nearly forty years. This new TDO production opens Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 7:00 PM in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Downtown Dallas.

The Hartt School of the University of Hartford presents the Hartt Symphony Band on Friday, March 2, at 7:30 PM, in Lincoln Theater at the University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, performing works by Richard Wagner, William Schuman, Ottorino Respighi, and David Holsinger.

Seattle Opera presents the ultimate story of love lost and regained this February with Gluck's Orphee et Eurydice, which runs for six performances from February 25 through March 10, 2012.

The Hartt School of the University of Hartford presents the Hartt Symphony Band on Friday, March 2, at 7:30 PM, in Lincoln Theater at the University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Avenue, West Hartford, performing works by Richard Wagner, William Schuman, Ottorino Respighi, and David Holsinger. Admission is $20 with discounts available for seniors, students, and groups. Admission is free for University of Hartford students, faculty, and staff with current University ID. For tickets and information, contact the University of Hartford Box Office at 860.768.4228 or 1.800.274.8587, or visit www.hartford.edu/hartt.

Upcoming Events have been announced at The Hartt School for the month of March 2012.

Seattle Opera presents the ultimate story of love lost and regained this February with Gluck's Orphee et Eurydice, which runs for six performances from February 25 through March 10, 2012.

Guest conductor Roberto Minczuk will lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in a program featuring Wagner's Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg, Mozart's Symphony No. 35, ?Haffner, and Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier Suite.

On February 28, 2012, Pan Classics (PC 10262) releases a new SA-CD of Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 by the Badische Staatskapelle Karlsruhe, Germany, led by its General Music Director, British conductor Justin Brown.

Washington National Opera (WNO) today announced several new initiatives as part of a long-range plan to build on its tradition of artistic excellence, including the Washington premiere of Richard Wagner's complete "American Ring" cycle and a multipart New American Works Project for young American composers and librettists.

The Dallas Opera will present Richard Wagner's intense and passionate drama, TRISTAN & ISOLDE, for the first time in nearly forty years. This new TDO production opens Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 7:00 PM in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Downtown Dallas.

Ab Sonntag, 20. November 2011, dirigiert GMD Franz Welser-Möst eine großteils neu besetzte Vorstellungsserie von Richard Wagners Tannhäuser in der Inszenierung von Claus Guth.

Great musical conversations will abound when Music Director Jean-Marie Zeitouni conducts the Columbus Symphony and Symphony soloists in artistically engaging dialogues.

Ab Sonntag, 20. November 2011, dirigiert GMD Franz Welser-Möst eine großteils neu besetzte Vorstellungsserie von Richard Wagners Tannhäuser in der Inszenierung von Claus Guth.

The Dallas Opera is pleased to announce the five darkly dazzling operas that comprise the company's 2011-12 season in the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. With opening night on Friday, October 21, 2011, the 55th international season - "Tragic Obsessions" - will showcase compelling works by Donizetti, Janacek, Wagner, Verdi and Mozart, and will include an outstanding Dallas opera-in-concert, important debuts and some of the company's most renowned productions. Each opera will feature the superbly talented Dallas Opera Orchestra and Dallas Opera Chorus and will be performed in its original language, with English translations projected above the stage at every performance. Exclusive subscriber extras include "A Cabaret Evening with Patricia Racette" and a fun-filled family concert starring soprano Ava Pine and the Dallas Opera Orchestra.