Of all the mature operas of Richard Wagner, “Tannhauser” requires perhaps the greatest indulgence from all but the most uncritical of Wagnerites. For one thing, it is long and repetitious, lasting ...

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Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Tannhäuser "Tannhäuser and the Minnesingers' Contest at Wartburg") is an 1845 opera in three acts ...

Tannhäuser is an 1845 opera in three acts, music and text by Richard Wagner, based on two German legends: Tannhäuser, the legendary medieval German Minnesänger and poet, and the tale of the Wartburg ...

The Metropolitan Opera has been feeding us one audience favorite after another this fall, and the latest hit to arrive is Richard Wagner's "Tannhauser." When it comes to operatic composers -- at least ...

The Metropolitan Opera presents Richard Wagner's Tannhauser, live in HD from the Met in New York, in movie theaters worldwide on Saturday, October 31 at 1 pm. Richard Wagner (1813-1883) reinvented the ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago presents Richard Wagner's majestic Tannhäuser conducted by Sir Andrew Davis in a new-to-Chicago production by Tim Albery. It opens on Monday, February 9 with seven performances ...

Opera in the city? In the summer? Well, yes. Ask Matthew Jenkins Jaroszewicz, artistic director of a new opera company. Apotheosis Opera company launches with its production Richard Wagner’s ...

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 ...

A new production of Richard Wagner’s opera “Tannhauser” in Germany was reportedly booed by members of the audience who were apparently upset over the use of Nazi imagery in the staging. The opera ...

You cannot escape Richard Wagner. If this review has reached you, anywhere in the world and by whatever means, you have already had your life affected in some way by a 19th-century megalomaniacal ...

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 ...