A wooden holztrompete joins the Met’s new ‘Tristan und Isolde’ production

A new Met Opera production of “Tristan und Isolde” uses Wagner’s rare wooden horn, the holztrompete, for a key offstage ...
Town & Country

A Dynastic Struggle Inside Opera's Most Famous Family Reaches Its Crescendo

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 ...
The New York Times

At Bayreuth, the Work on Wagner’s Operas Is Never Done

At the festival that Wagner founded, a new “Parsifal” looks different depending on how you see it, and a workshop model refreshes revivals. By Zachary Woolfe Zachary Woolfe saw Wagner’s “Ring,” ...
WRAL

Bayreuth’s First American Director Made Wagner a Feminist. What Now?

BAYREUTH, Germany — Articles about 19th-century operas typically do not require spoiler alerts. This one does. That is because Wagner’s “Lohengrin” — as staged at the Bayreuth Festival here by the ...

Specially built wood horn known as holztrompete sounds at Met Opera in Wagner's `Tristan und Isolde'

A new Met Opera production of "Tristan und Isolde" uses Wagner's rare wooden horn, the holztrompete, for a key offstage ...