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Bayreuth Festival plans to present Wagner's 'Rienzi' for the first time in 2026
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoThe Bayreuth Festival intends to present "Rienzi" for the first time in 2026 for its 150th...
Nathalie Stutzmann become second woman to conduct at Bayreuth, 2 years after gender barrier broken
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 10 months agoTwo years after the debut of the Bayreuth Festival’s first female conductor, Nathalie Stutzmann...
Bayreuth Festival to have three women conductors, three years after gender barrier broken
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 4 months agoThe Bayreuth Festival will have three female conductors this summer, three years after the podium...
A Dynastic Struggle Worthy of a Wagner Opera
Town & Country via Yahoo News· 4 months agoA Dynastic Struggle Worthy of a Wagner OperaGetty Images During Germany’s last 150 years, a king has been dethroned, a kaiser has abdicated, and a...
Opera Singer Stephen Gould Dead of Bile Duct Cancer at 61: 'Always in Our Hearts'
People via Yahoo News· 8 months agoThe famed tenor starred in over 3000 shows of 'The Phantom of the Opera,' among many other acclaimed...
Grace Bumbry, Pioneering Black Mezzo-Soprano Dies at 86
Billboard via Yahoo News· 1 year agoGrace Bumbry, a pioneering mezzo-soprano who became the first Black singer to perform at Germany’s...
Katharina Wagner will lead the Bayreuth Festival for 5 more years
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThe Bayreuth Festival in Germany announced on Tuesday that it is retaining Katharina Wagner as its...
Grace Bumbry: The international barrier-breaking Black St. Louis opera singer
KTVI via Yahoo News· 3 months agoIn honor of Black History Month, St. Louis remembers the opera singer Grace Bumbry, an American...
Opera world split as director reinventions dominate Europe while US, Italy more muted
Associated Press via AOL· 9 months agoThe opera world is split in two: European regietheater productions reinvent works in ways composers...
Czech opera singer Soňa Červená dies at age 97
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSoňa Červená, a Czech opera singer who became known for playing Carmen and more than 110 roles in San Francisco and other opera houses behind the Iron...
