Antoinette Halloran has had less than a year. Starting next week, she will sing Brunnhilde in Melbourne Opera’s first full production of Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) in Bendigo.
A $5m production will see a 90-piece orchestra present 15 hours of drama at a Bendigo theatre. See what it means for regional arts. Melbourne Opera’s $5m production of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle will ...
The difference is a matter of scale: as the national company, OA is the Fasolt and Fafner of opera, with a pre-pandemic turnover of $130m. Melbourne Opera is, comparatively speaking, a Nibelung dwarf, ...
What do Liz Lemon, Bugs Bunny and Apocalypse Now have in common? A love of Wagner might not be the first thing that springs to mind. But these are just some of the places in popular culture the German ...
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 ...
The Royal Opera will present the complete cycle of Richard Wagner's DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN in Barrie Kosky's production, conducted by Music ...
An experimental performance of Richard Wagner’s famous opera tetralogy that draws on artificial intelligence has reportedly been met with mixed reactions since its premiere this summer at Germany’s ...
The Korean National Opera is launching a four-year project to stage Wagner’s full “Der Ring des Nibelungen” cycle, beginning ...