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 ...
A MODERN version of Richard Wagner’s Tannhauser opera has been cancelled in Germany after the opening-night audience complained about new scenes showing Jews being murdered and dying in gas chambers.
All that was missing were shouts of “food fight!” to turn last night’s performance of Richard Wagner’s TANNHAUSER—the first of the Met’s season—into a version of National Lampoon’s Night at the Opera.