Hardly any German city can boast as great and vibrant a musical tradition as Leipzig. Clara and Robert Schumann, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Johann Sebastian Bach, Richard Wagner, Edvard Grieg, ...

If choosing between the sacred and the profane was one of Wagner’s favourite dilemmas, why did German company Leipzig Opera’s production of the composer’s opera Tannhäuser make it seem so easy?

The photo provided by Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Duesseldorf, western Germany, shows Markus Eiche, left, as Wolfram and Thorsten Gruembel as Landgraf performing in front of the choir in a scene of the ...

THE final arrivals from the Deutsche Oper Berlin were just a nail-biting few hours before this performance of Wagner’s four-hour epic began, a train journey from London replacing a cancelled flight.

SOPRANO Lynda Lee has returned from Leipzig Opera after the completion of a two-year contract and, significantly, has been singing Elisabeth in Wagner's early opera Tannhauser. There are those, in ...