Richard Wagner was a difficult person, to put it lightly—an infamous anti-Semite and world-historical egoist known for displaying ingratitude and duplicity toward lovers, friends, and benefactors ...

NEW YORK(AP) — When Lise Davidsen finished her last performance in Beethoven’s “Fidelio” at the Metropolitan Opera a year ago, she flew home to Norway to await the birth of twins, enjoy a six-month ...

People who care about opera can’t stop talking about the baby, or “that damned baby” as a disgruntled patron put it on the way out of the Metropolitan Opera last week. It’s a directorial conceit in a ...

Acoustically that seems to have been a challenge for those I know who were present at the Met, the orchestra supposedly overwhelming the singers, but not in the sound for the screening. And the ...

For more than nine decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...

The electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres ...

Wagner’s tragic love story “Tristan und Isolde” will be shown at the O’Shaughnessy Center in Whitefish at 10 a.m. March 21. “Tristan und Isolde” is the sixth opera to be livestreamed through the ...

Internationally acclaimed tenor Michael Spyres will appear at the Metropolitan Opera this season. He will perform in “Tristan und Isolde,” a highly anticipated production that is nearing a sold-out ...