Wagnerian parlayed clear sailing and firm footing to a half-length victory in the 85th running of the Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby, G1) May 27 at Tokyo Racecourse. Previously undefeated favorite Danon ...

Birgit Nilsson, the Swedish farmer’s daughter who became renowned in the world’s great opera houses for her dazzling voice and among colleagues for her playful sense of humor, has died at age 87. She ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Seiffert in Tristan und Isolde at Vienna State Opera in 2013 - Dieter Nagl/AFP/Getty Images Peter Seiffert, who has died ...

The audience voted, the orchestra voted, and the judges also voted. Excitement ran high in McCaw Hall for the third International Wagner Competition, with nine competing singers who have the potential ...

Makoto Kaneko, one of the greatest horsemen in Japan, added another winner to his impressive roster May 27 with Wagnerian, who took home the May 27 Tokyo Yushun (Japanese Derby, G1) at Tokyo ...

For every social and cultural moment, Wagner always seems to have a comment at the ready. Die Walküre, the second opera in the Ring cycle, returned to the Met for the first time in what feels like an ...

Sandor Konya, a Hungarian-born tenor with a dramatic, powerful voice who became a fixture at New York’s Metropolitan Opera for 14 seasons, has died. He was 78. Konya died May 20 at his home on the ...

EVIDENTLY there is extraordinary interest in recordings of the Ring, “Die Meis-tersinger,” a n d “Tristan,” for our reference last month to a few discs of this music brought in numerous requests for ...