Roberto Minczuk (MIN-cook) is the conductor leading the Colorado Symphony in a concert performance of the Overture to Richard Wagner's opera, "The Flying Dutchman." ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Modern stage directors, however, have stood Wagner’s intent on its head: since the redemption theme doesn’t occur ...

Regional opera companies always take a pause before they produce operas by Richard Wagner. The German composer has a big reputation for grand titles that unfold at a snail’s pace. Wagner’s famous ...

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Opera Colorado's production of "The Flying Dutchman" was created from the ground up in about 2 years. The organization wanted to put a new spin on an old classic. In Richard Wagner's opera "The Flying ...

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Sadly, the first of those was reduced to her “walking” the role of Senta on the night, while Mari Wyn Williams sang the part from the score at the side of the stage. It proved a remarkable performance ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. In his third season as Lyric’s Music Director, Enrique Mazzola leads the Lyric ...

How does a quarry become the largest and one of the most unique open-air stages in Europe, and the setting for some of the world's most famous operas? Just a few kilometres from Lake Neusiedl, in ...

Richard Wagner’s “The Flying Dutchman” is not the typical operatic tale of love and remorse. Inspired by his own autobiography “Mein Leben,” Wagner adapted his 1839 stormy sail from Riga to London ...

Wagner’s opera The Flying Dutchman is an eerie tale of redemption through love, set in the fearsome world of a ghost sea captain. To close out the symphonic season, the FWSO has assembled an all-star ...