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 ...

THE final arrivals from the Deutsche Oper Berlin were just a nail-biting few hours before this performance of Wagner’s four-hour epic began, a train journey from London replacing a cancelled flight.

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 ...