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 ...

This undated photo, taken by an SS guard, shows women prisoners lined up for a hard labor assignment at the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland during World War II. BERLIN (AP) — A modern ...

There was more than the usual amount of opening night buzz Tuesday at the War Memorial Opera House, as the San Francisco Opera unveiled its new production of “Tannhauser.” Wagner’s opera hadn’t been ...

Of all the mature operas of Richard Wagner, “Tannhauser” requires perhaps the greatest indulgence from all but the most uncritical of Wagnerites. For one thing, it is long and repetitious, lasting ...

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The plug has been officially pulled on a controversial new German production of Wagner’s “Tannhauser” that used Nazi costumes and other imagery from the Third Reich. The Deutsche Oper am Rhein in ...

The director of the controversial new production of Wagner’s “Tannhauser” that made ample use of Nazi imagery -- including swastikas on costumes and a set that featured a pseudo-gas chamber -- has ...

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Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Tannhäuser "Tannhäuser and the Minnesingers' Contest at Wartburg") is an 1845 opera in three acts ...

When the curtain at the Civic Opera House rose Monday night to reveal Rev. Heinrich Tannhauser-a famous televangelist who bears a suspicious resemblance to Jimmy Swaggart-disporting himself in a ...

A modern production of Richard Wagner's opera "Tannhauser" is causing a stir in Germany because of Nazi-themed scenes showing people dying in gas chambers and members of a family having their heads ...

A modern production of Richard Wagner’s opera “Tannhauser” is causing a stir in Germany because of Nazi-themed scenes showing people dying in gas chambers and members of a family having their heads ...