The Bayreuth Festival in Germany is a ‘sanctuary of Wagnerian music’ that has specialized in performing only the operas of ...

In 1915, while German U-boats were ranging the Atlantic traffic lanes, a gaunt and hawklike Austrian arrived in Manhattan. He spoke no English, but his first act was to make a translated statement to ...

Wagnerian operatic forms span a continuum. At one end lie the delineated, non-developmental, "structural" kinds of shapes, at the other the "formless" streams of music that arguably depend on the ...

Soprano Birgit Nilsson, whose death Dec. 25 at age 87 was reported yesterday, was the great Valkyrie of her time -- a warrior woman whose steely voice sliced thrillingly through the vast orchestral ...

With all due respect, I am unsympathetic to Daniel Barenboim’s defense of a planned guest performance of “Die Walkure” at the upcoming Israel Festival (Commentary, May 22). As long as Jewish ...

Trinity Episcopal Cathedral continued its search for director of its music program Thursday, with a short concert by the second of four candidates, Michael Messina of Indianapolis. The national search ...