Next year, a full opera cycle will be performed year-round at world-famous opera houses. It is the four-part opera *The Ring of the Nibelung* by German composer Richard Wagner (1813–1883), which marks ...

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It's a love that has only recently developed after years of performing 'standard' repertoire. "I discovered the universe of Glass, Reich, and Adams a long time ago," Wagner tells Apple Music, "but I ...

If, like me, you prefer your opera recordings to be heard and not seen, make an exception for this DVD of Peter Sellars’s remarkably lucid staging of John Adams’s Nixon in China. A work which, as ...

Wagner was a famously bad pianist. Almost as bad as Berlioz who could hardly play it at all, and worked out his pieces at the guitar (which some say accounts for their sometimes wonky harmonies).