“It’s like an international flight,” whined a member of the Metropolitan Opera’s audience within earshot of me the last time that Richard Wagner’s longest opera, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, was ...

The list is nearly complete: the repertoire of “Bayreuth by the Danube” – the Budapest Wagner Days festival held annually at the Palace of Arts – is expanding once again to include a new work in 2013, ...

There was, unfortunately, more than a whiff of Panto about the Royal Opera’s latest revival of Wagner’s great (some might say dubious) paean to holy German art, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg. Coming ...

Wagner, it has to be said, is a composer that provokes strong reactions from audiences. There are those who cherish every single second and those who would never be caught dead enduring over five ...