Call it “Siegfried” and chill, or maybe bingeable Wagner. The Atlanta Opera’s upcoming production of “Siegfried” is the third opera in Robert Wagner’s four-opera “Der Ring des Nibelungen” cycle. A ...
Three years ago, Vermont enjoyed its first locally produced Wagner opera. The newly formed company TUNDI (short for “Tristan und Isolde”) presented two performances of the magnificent romance “Tristan ...
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 ...
Richard Wagner’s legendary “Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung),” with its four contiguous operas evoking a new musical language, power and force, has been presented nearly annually at ...
NEW YORK — Backstage at the Metropolitan Opera, a rehearsal pianist was ready to launch into Wagner’s famous “Ride of the Valkyries.” But before the battalion of singers could unleash their war cries ...
As German composer Richard Wagner contemplated the Ring cycle in the 19th century, he decided it wasn’t enough to create a four-night saga of gods and humans. He also envisioned an instrument that ...
Then General Music Director (GMD) of the Komische Oper Berlin Kirill Petrenko conducts in the Komische Oper Berlin during a rehearsal of the comedy "Der Rosenkavalier" by Richard Strauss. The ...
DSO Music Director and Grammy winner Fabio Luisi (shown) will lead the performances of Wagner’s epic “Ring” cycle, kicking off this May at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center. No one dominated ...
Call it “Siegfried” and chill, or maybe bingeable Wagner. The Atlanta Opera’s upcoming production of “Siegfried” is the third opera in Robert Wagner’s four-opera “Der Ring des Nibelungen” cycle. A ...