Richard Wagner's four-opera cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen, which he began in 1848 and on which he worked over the next two decades, is a comprehensive re-working of Old Norse myths, as recounted in ...

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 ...

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.

PEOPLE say the Ring Cycle can change your life. One thing is certain after Opera Australia lifted the curtain on its $20 million production of Richard Wagner's 16-hour masterwork: this is not going to ...

Mairi Nicolson brings you back to this year’s Bayreuth Festival - for the final instalment of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle Götterdämmerung conducted by Australia’s very own Simone Young. “I have had a ...