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 title character in Tannhäuser is a broken, flawed individual who can’t quite decide whether love or lust will be best for him. And although many call this one of if not the most accessible Wagner ...
On Friday, the Houston Grand Opera performed a new staging of Richard Wagner’s "Tannhäuser" whose setting comprised both hits and misses, but whose several highlights included the rousing singing of ...
Heretical it might be to say so, but in many ways Runnicles seems to me a more authentic interpreter of late romantic music. His well drilled BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra may not be encouraged to ...