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What Is Russia Thinking? A ‘Documentary Opera’ Tries to Answer.

“Russia: Today,” a piece by the composer Eugene Birman, is based on hundreds of interviews with hundreds of Russians, in which they share their private feelings about the country.

By Andrew Dickson

Heppner, Ben Lohengrin (Opera) Mattila, Karita Metropolitan Opera Opera Wagner, Richard Wilson, Robert (1941- )

How a Production of Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin’ Changed the Met Opera

Robert Wilson’s staging of Wagner’s “Lohengrin” opened to a wall of boos in 1998. But it brought new theatrical possibilities to the Met.

By Zachary Woolfe

Bayreuth Wagner Festival Lohengrin (Opera) Opera Wagner, Richard

Wagner’s ‘Lohengrin’ Uses the Word ‘Führer.’ Keep It There.

In some cases, the inflammatory, Nazi-associated term has been changed out of sensitivity. What do we lose when that happens?

By Zachary Woolfe

Bayreuth Wagner Festival Berlin (Germany) Berlin State Opera Classical Music Deaths (Obituaries) Flimm, Jurgen Metropolitan Opera Opera Salzburg (Austria) Salzburg Festival Theater

Jürgen Flimm, Director of Festivals and Opera Houses, Dies at 81

He left his mark in Hamburg, Berlin, Strasburg and elsewhere. He also directed a memorable “Ring” cycle in Bayreuth.

By A.J. Goldmann