James Levine conducts Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser with Johan Botha on Great Performances at the Met Sunday, March 13 at 12 p.m. on PBS (check local schedule). Eva-Maria Westbroek, Michelle DeYoung, ...

Wagner’s opera of extremes is directed with striking simplicity, but John Treleaven’s tormented Tannhäuser grates on the ear Pilgrimage to Rome is a central part of Wagner’s early opera Tannhäuser, so ...

The first thing you need to know about Saturday’s Met opera transmission is that it starts at 10 a.m., one hour earlier than usual. The second: it’s a four-and-a-half hour marathon. “Tannhäuser” is ...

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 ...

Tim Albery’s second revival only fitfully illuminates the opera’s complexities, but the singing and acting are superb Tim Albery’s 2010 production of Wagner’s Tannhäuser is now back at Covent Garden ...

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Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Maybe it was the experience of performing the Pilgrims’ Chorus as a teenager that was so off-putting. All that pseudo ...

Before Eurovision, there was the Wartburg Song Contest. Eurovision could only wish for this much drama! Imagine basking in the adoration of Venus herself. Our minstrel-knight Tannhäuser has found a ...

BAYREUTH, Germany There is a general and well-founded perception of the Bayreuth Festival as an elitist stronghold for opera, as much a shrine to Wagner as a festival of his works. And there is no ...

GP at the Met: Tannhäuser premieres March 13, 2016 at noon (check local schedule). History, myth, and invention come together in Tannhäuser, which had its world premiere in October 1845 at the Court ...