Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sara Jakubiak as Elisabeth and Issachah Savage as Tannhäuser perform during a dress rehearsal of Los Angeles Opera's "Tannhäuser" ...

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 ...

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 ...

It looks like, and sometimes is, a director’s (hence an audience’s) nightmare. In Bayreuth, where I last saw it, it was set in a biogas recycling plant, Venus gave birth to the baby Jesus, watched ...

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 ...