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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The monumental, two-film “Die Nibelungen,” drawn from similar material to Wagner’s “Ring,” is best when presented live with a full orchestra.

The Valkyries will ride into Dallas when the Dallas Symphony Orchestra presents Richard Wagner’s complete Der Ring des Nibelungen as an opera-in-concert series in 2024. “As you know, Wagner’s operas ...

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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 ...

With a team of researchers and dedicated musicians, the conductor Kent Nagano is taking a historically informed performance approach to Wagner’s epic. By Joshua Barone Reporting from Amsterdam What ...

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 ...

It's not often done because it's the Everest for symphonies performing operas: It's 15 hours long. The Ring of the Nibelung — or the Ring Cycle, as it's known — is not often performed in concert by ...

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 ...