Villa Hills native Logan Wagner is one of only 28 opera singers from around the world to attend this summer’s Merola Opera Program. Wagner grew up on the quiet, suburban shores of Villa Hills. This ...

It is considered the "most German" of Richard Wagner's operas. Adolf Hitler used the work for his propaganda purposes. Productions of Wagner's opera "Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg" divide audiences.

The second half of the 2025–26 season opens with a Wagner event for the ages, as blazing soprano Lise Davidsen headlines the composer’s all-consuming epic Tristan und Isolde after years of ...

Staging any opera is rarely a modest undertaking, but if that opera happens to be by Richard Wagner, “modest” must go out the window. Typically, one needs a large theater, an outsized orchestra, and ...

Tamara Wilson as Brünnhilde in dress rehearsal of Santa Fe Opera production of Wagner's 'Die Walküre' at the Crosby Theatre in Santa Fe, N.M. in July 2025. Curtis Brown / Santa Fe Opera SANTA FE, N.M.

Director Yuval Sharon’s company debut is an imaginative, expansive production headed by two top-flight singers, Lise Davidsen ...

NEW YORK (AP) — In his book on reinventing opera, director Yuval Sharon describes “Tristan und Isolde” as “the single hardest work in the traditional repertoire to stage.” Yet here he is, about to ...

Walking home from Lincoln Center last night, at about 11:45, I heard a man say on his phone, “It was truly, like, the greatest thing I’ve ever seen.” He was speaking of a performance of Wagner’s ...