Wagner Controversy Opera Cancels Holocaust Staging of 'Tannhäuser' A staging of Richard Wagner's "Tannhäuser" -- set during the Holocaust and including a gas chamber and a shooting scene -- shocked ...

But what music! Wagner's Overture to Tannhäuser is justly seen as a masterpiece in its own right, but under Donald Runnicles the orchestra of Deutsche Oper Berlin pushed the music along with an almost ...

Wagner's Tannhäuser is a masterpiece. Lasting four and a half hours, including two half-hour intervals, it thrills the audience with unceasing action and glorious music that just gets more and more ...

Maestro Nelsons led the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Wagner's Tannhäuser Overture and Respghi's The Pine's of Rome with soprano Kristine Opolais and tenor Jonas Kaufmann. (Video courtesy of the BSO) ...