Climate Protesters Interrupt Met Performance of Wagner’s ‘Tannhäuser’ Met officials were forced to bring down the curtain halfway through the opera as protesters unfurled banners that read “No Opera On A Dead Planet.” The performance later resumed.
Wagner’s ‘Parsifal’ at the Bayreuth Festival Experiments With AR Cutting-edge technology has again come to the Bayreuth Festival, where Wagner premiered his final opera with the latest stagecraft in 1882.
Exhibit at German History Museum Reckons With Wagner’s Legacy A new exhibition at the country’s national history museum examines the strong feelings stirred by its most famous 19th-century composer.