En medio de letreros que indican “Al ascensor” y advierten a los conductores que “lleven su ticket de estacionamiento” con ellos, las doncellas del Rin lamentan el robo de su oro, Siegfried es ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
In a paper published in the Christmas edition of The BMJ, researchers have looked at how German composer Richard Wagner's disabling migraines and headaches influenced his operas. As composer of ...
Two art museums are contributing to Los Angeles’ Ring Festival with small exhibitions opening this month. At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, “Myths, Legends, and Cultural Renewal: Wagner’s ...
His operas are too long. And there are no real arias in them anyway. He was a marriage wrecker, an incorrigible spendthrift, an anti-Semite. The Nazis loved him. Why should anybody bother with the ...
It’s one of the great epics of Western civilization, a four-part drama of family dysfunction and betrayal, of gods and mortals, giants and dwarfs, sacrifice and ultimate cleansing and renewal by fire ...
Turning right onto ‘The Flying Dutchman’ Street and walking along ‘Tannhäuser’ Street, a left turn onto ‘Tristan’ Street revealed the Bayreuth Festival Theatre on the right. The 10-minute walk from ...
During Germany’s last 150 years, a king has been dethroned, a kaiser has abdicated, and a dictator has fallen, but on the Green Hill in the Bavarian town of Bayreuth, one thing has stood the test of ...