What is it that stirs in the breast to hear the news that Wagner's The Ring is to be staged in Melbourne? Well, it no doubt helps if, like me, you are a Wagner tragic and possess a dozen or more ...

It's one of the great epics of Western civilization, a four-part drama of family dysfunction and betrayal, of gods and mortals, giants and dwarfs, sacrifice and ultimate cleansing and renewal by fire ...

Productions take very different approaches to the central symbol of this epic cycle, treating Wagner with daring freedom. By Zachary Woolfe Is it oil? Is it youth? Is it tactile? Invisible? For Wagner ...

The world had plenty of reasons to forget Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle, “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” None of the four makes sense without the others—they premiered together in 1876—but the prospect ...

The four-part cycle—Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung—will be performed in three complete cycles from June 13–July 2, 2028, with pre-cycle performances of individual operas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Irene Theorin, left, as Brünnhilde and Daniel Brenna as Siegfried embrace for Richard Wagner's four-part "Ring" cycle, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australian conductor Simone Young (Sandra Steh) When it comes to Richard Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung," Simone Young knows no ...

ZURICH — In an age of radical reinterpretations, conductor Gianandrea Noseda and director Andreas Homoki created a counterrevolutionary version of Wagner’s four-night, 15-hour Ring Cycle that sparked ...

I have been preparing all week for the upcoming San Diego Symphony concerts on Friday and Saturday, November 10 and 11. The concerts are at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park and begin at 7:30 pm. I have ...

The Ring cycle, Richard Wagner’s four-part meditation on the human condition—told through the composer’s harmonization and embellishment of Norse myths about the creation and destruction of the ...

When the Washington Opera made its first foray into Wagner -- a 1975 production of "Die Walkure," the second of four operas in the composer's epic cycle, "Der Ring des Nibelungen" -- fledgling ...

Near the close of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold, the first of the four operas that make up his epic Ring of the Nibelung cycle, Donner the God of Thunder delivers a depressing weather ...