MILANMILAN — This Lohengrin is no knight in shining armor, confidently riding in on a swan to defend a beautiful maiden. No, the barefoot hero on view at La Scala these days acts more like a runaway ...

MILANMILAN — The famed La Scala opera house inaugurated its 2012-13 season Friday with the Teutonic classic `’Lohengrin” as it launched dual bicentennial celebrations of its own Giuseppe Verdi and ...

Daniel Barenboim will conduct Wagner’s “Lohengrin” for La Scala’s gala season opening next December, as the famed Milanese opera house launches a yearlong musical celebration of the dual bicentennial ...

MILAN (AFP) ― La Scala opera house in Milan on Friday celebrated the start of its 2012/2013 season with Richard Wagner’s “Lohengrin” ― a disputed choice ahead of the bicentenaries of the famous German ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. No other opera event in the world can possibly generate the public excitement of La Scala’s annual season-opener. It ...

Conductor Daniel Barenboim has said he will not voluntarily change plans to perform an opera by Richard Wagner at a Jerusalem festival, despite opposition from the Israeli parliament. Israeli ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. There have not been more horned helmets in a Wagner opera since Bugs Bunny was Brünnhilde in What’s Opera, Doc?

MILAN (AP) — Daniel Barenboim will conduct Wagner's "Lohengrin" for La Scala's gala season opening next December, as the famed Milanese opera house launches a yearlong musical celebration of the dual ...

MILAN (AP) -- This Lohengrin is no knight in shining armor, confidently riding in on a swan to defend a beautiful maiden. No, the barefoot hero on view at La Scala these days acts more like a runaway ...

French artistic director of La Scala theater Stephane Lissner arrives for a news conference in Milan, Italy, Friday, April 20, 2012. Daniel Barenboim will conduct Wagner's "Loehngrin" for the Dec. 7 ...