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 ...

Wagner was a famously bad pianist. Almost as bad as Berlioz who could hardly play it at all, and worked out his pieces at the guitar (which some say accounts for their sometimes wonky harmonies).

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 seven-decade old cultural taboo will be broken next month when an Israeli symphony orchestra will play works by Richard Wagner inside the country for the first time since the state's foundation in ...