This majestic, epic piece of Wagner’s Ring Cycle makes a rare regional appearance. Das Rheingold requires a cast of more than 12 characters with specialized voices. Baritone Lester Lynch leads Das ...

Adam Diegel as Froh, Günther Groissböck as Fasolt, Wendy Bryn Harmer as Freia, Jamie Barton as Fricka, Norbert Ernst as Loge, Dmitry Belosselskiy as Fafner, and Greer Grimsley as Wotan in Wagner’s Das ...

There are no supernatural women arriving on horseback to escort slain warriors to the afterlife. There's just a trio of mermaids, a couple of giants and a loveless dwarf, along with a bunch of gods, ...

In all of Western culture there is nothing quite like Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (“The Ring of the Nibelung”). Based on Wagner’s own retelling of stories from ancient German and ...

Get a first look at The Atlanta Opera's - "one of the most exciting opera companies in America" (Opera Wire) - production of Das Rheingold, the company's first production of any opera from Wagner's ...

Opera lovers have long wondered about the fuss over Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Almost a century earlier, Richard Wagner wrote four epic operas in which he told the story of a golden ring that ...

A new production of the "Ring" cycle usually finds Wagner lovers making beelines to the opera house to find out how the director, designers and musicians treat this monumental and endlessly ...

Inside the packed house, among the gowns and tuxedos, at least one woman wore a horned helmet. Richard Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen” inspires fanaticism like nothing else in opera — and like ...

Das Rheingold is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen or The Ring of the Nibelung. It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre ...