WAGNER

Recorded in May, a quartet of some of opera’s most powerful and dramatic singers comes together at the Hessisches Staatstheater in Wiesbaden, Germany. Sopranos Christine Goerke and Elza van den Heever, tenor Andreas Schager, and baritone Michael Volle perform a program of selections by Wagner ...

Enjoy the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra’s performance of selections by Strauss, Wagner, Offenbach, Puccini and more from the Schönbrunn Palace Gardens under the baton of conductor Valery Gergiev featuring Metropolitan Opera tenor Jonas Kaufmann.

Experience Wagner’s eerie early masterpiece telling the tale of the sea captain cursed to sail for eternity. François Girard’s new production stars Evgeny Nikitin in the title role opposite Anja Kampe in her Met debut. Valery Gergiev conducts.

Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser comes to Great Performances at the Met for the first time and is conducted by James Levine. The Otto Schenk production gets its first Met revival in more than a decade. Johan Botha makes his Met role debut in the titular role; ...

The works of Wagner and Verdi are featured in the beloved concert from Vienna’s Schönbrunn Palace Gardens.

Jonas Kaufmann performs Act II monologue from Wagner's "Parsifal."

René Pape performs an excerpt from Gurnemanz's Act I narration from Wagner's "Parsifal" which airs on PBS Sunday, July 28 at 12 p.m.

Jonas Kaufmann sings the title role in The Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Parsifal" which airs on PBS Sunday, July 28 at 12 p.m. (check local listings).

At first glance, after the uninterrupted flow of drama in the three preceding parts of the Ring, the libretto of Götterdämmerung might seem a throwback.

Of all the major characters in the Ring, Siegfried is probably the one who has been most misunderstood.