Gotterdammerung, the longest and most musically and dramatically complex of the Ring operas, is perhaps the hardest of them to stage with conviction and continuity: it does, after all, depend on fire ...

Every now and then the creative impulse of man suddenly erupts and produces something so extraordinary, so incalculable, that from the moment it comes into being the history of an art is irrevocably ...

(Der) Ring des Nibelungen: Part 1, '(Das) Rheingold', Movements: Prelude Philippe Jordan, Conductor Richard Wagner, Composer Paris National Opera Orchestra (Der) Ring des Nibelungen: Part 1, '(Das) ...

Part of the continuing intrigue with Opera Australia's Der Ring des Nibelungen is seeing how director Neil Armfield stages the various preludes. Even though Wagner, ever exact, specified to the bar at ...

The Korean National Opera is launching a four-year project to stage Wagner’s full “Der Ring des Nibelungen” cycle, beginning ...

Having presented the various operas individually between 2019 and 2023, this year Longborough Festival Opera is staging the entire Der Ring des Nibelungen. The final opera Götterdämmerung, which is ...

People travel the globe just to see one of the opera world’s most epic productions, and Brisbane is expecting a $15 million boost to the local economy when the “Everest of opera” comes to QPAC in 2020 ...

The weather was glorious and I had tickets to the Ring cycle, Wagner’s masterpiece of musical theatre, four long operas to be seen over six days, about 15 hours of music in all. Wagner had built his ...

In writing Rheingold Wagner managed to break just about every operatic tradition prevailing at that time. I do not think that he consciously set out to do so; what happened was that his imaginative ...

Vocalist Samuel Youn, who appears in The Rhinegold. Provided by Korea National Opera. Yonhap News Agency Baritone Yang ...

The Korea National Opera raises the curtain Thursday on “Das Rheingold,” starting a four-year project to stage all of Richard ...

While the positions of Fillion’s construction often do little more than give the singers a flat ramp downstage backed by a wall, Lepage’s Personenregie seems (again, as filmed) surprisingly literal ...