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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Sunday at Brattleboro’s Latchis Theatre, Vermont’s first-ever Wagner “Ring” Cycle came to a close with “Gotterdammerung,” or “Twilight of the Gods.” At its center is Brunnhilde,” a goddess and ...

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 ...