The Metropolitan opera, in its final weeks before the end of the season, revived the last of Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle, Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) on April 23. With gorgeous, warm and ...

It's a tribute to the power of Götterdämmerung, the fourth and final opera in Richard Wagner's epic Ring Cycle, that this nearly five-hour Royal Opera House production is gripping despite some ...

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 ...

As the Norns, mythical weavers of destiny, represent the past, present, and future, so too does this sadly unappreciated ...

Third time round, and still things remain – for good or ill – ambiguous in Warner’s staging. Admittedly in Götterdämmerung the clutter does begin to clear. Symbols painstakingly loaded with meaning ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wagner: Gotterdammerung - Steve Gregson Mounting Wagner's massive Ring cycle in a venue that has been described as "the spiritual ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. At curtain-down on Monday the Royal Opera passed the virility test of any self-respecting opera ensemble: it ...

Highest praise for these latter two episodes of Wagner’s Ring must go to the conductor Antonio Pappano and the orchestra. Both of them seemed to gather momentum as the cycle progressed, the strings ...