The Alchemy of Love    “ An opera about an archetypal myth presented as a medieval fairy tale, ” so describes William Berger the opera Lo...

Happy Valentine’s Day! In keeping with the theme of love and courtship, this week FairyTaleChannel is highlighting the romance of the Sw...

  Image from the Bodleian Library, French ca. 1487 Grimm’s Saga No. 542: Lohengrin at Brabant The Duke of Brabant and Limburg died withou...

The Mythology of the Swan Knight: Don't Ask, Don't Tell In the year 711 the Duchess of Kleve, the only daughter of Beatrix and...

Grimm’s Saga No. 545: Gerhard the Good, Swan Knight King Charlemagne once stood at his castle window and looked down upon the Rhine ...

Richard Wagner based his opera Tannhauser und der Saengerkrieg auf Wartburg on the two sagas provided below. The opera takes a romantic lo...