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Climate Protesters Interrupt Met Performance of Wagner’s ‘Tannhäuser’

Met officials were forced to bring down the curtain halfway through the opera as protesters unfurled banners that read “No Opera On A Dead Planet.” The performance later resumed.

By Orlando Mayorquin Lola Fadulu Patrick Farrell and Joshua Bar

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Stephen Gould, Tenor Best Known for Tackling Wagner, Dies at 61

He was especially acclaimed for his performances at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany. As his voice developed, he once said, so did his view of how and why to deploy it.

By Neil Genzlinger

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Review: This London ‘Ring’ Is on the Met Opera’s Radar

It’s not stage-filling spectacle, but Barrie Kosky’s version of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold,” the start of a four-opera epic, is eerie, vivid and intense.

By Zachary Woolfe

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Wagner’s ‘Parsifal’ at the Bayreuth Festival Experiments With AR

Cutting-edge technology has again come to the Bayreuth Festival, where Wagner premiered his final opera with the latest stagecraft in 1882.

By Zachary Woolfe

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