Instead of Draining the Swamp, Trump Starts Renaming It After Himself Audio By Carbonatix The New Year’s resolution is a capricious thing, often arbitrarily made, haltingly followed, and quickly ...

Next year, a full opera cycle will be performed year-round at world-famous opera houses. It is the four-part opera *The Ring of the Nibelung* by German composer Richard Wagner (1813–1883), which marks ...

It's a love that has only recently developed after years of performing 'standard' repertoire. "I discovered the universe of Glass, Reich, and Adams a long time ago," Wagner tells Apple Music, "but I ...

Discover the world of Wagner, the controversial composer whose work has graced box office movies, kids’ cartoons and some of classical music’s longest, most brooding operas. Here’s how to get your ...

If, like me, you prefer your opera recordings to be heard and not seen, make an exception for this DVD of Peter Sellars’s remarkably lucid staging of John Adams’s Nixon in China. A work which, as ...

Sir John Tomlinson, whose thoughts specifically about the Prom Parsifal in which he sang the role of Gurnemanz follow below, says it all about clutter versus simplicity: “people talk about directors ...

A) Adolf Hitler’s favorite composer, who provided the soundtrack for the Third Reich, albeit 50 years after his death. B) Classical music’s most infamously outspoken anti-Semite. C) A willful, ...