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For an institution in crisis—and the Metropolitan Opera, contending with multiple allegations of sexual abuse of minors against longtime conductor James Levine, as well as a years-long decline in ...

BAYREUTH, Germany — A giant swan sailed into auditorium and crashed, felled by a huge arrow still protruding. Flowers burst into bloom, radiant in red and green, pink and blue. In the theater Richard ...

Martin Handley presents a recording of the recent production of Wagner's final opera from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. It marks the return to the theatre's podium of former music director ...

Even by operatic standards, four women characters represent the feminine at its most mysterious. Handel's Alcina, Wagner's Kundry, Debussy's Melisande and Berg's Lulu are women with deeply uncertain ...

Strong tableaux abound in young Dutch director Jetske Mijnssen’s production, Glyndebourne's first Parsifal, but they restrict to this world Wagner's sublime swansong score, which gleams in the ...

BAYREUTH, Germany (AP) — A giant swan sailed into auditorium and crashed, felled by a huge arrow still protruding. Flowers burst into bloom, radiant in red and green, pink and blue. In the theater ...