A new production of Richard Wagner’s opera “Tannhauser” in Germany was reportedly booed by members of the audience who were apparently upset over the use of Nazi imagery in the staging. The opera ...

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 production of Tannhauser that incorporates Nazi officers, swastikas and what appears to be a gas chamber into the mythical Richard Wagner opera has sparked outrage in Germany. The controversial ...