Apple Music Classical launches the first time-synchronized “Listening Guide” to Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen for the epic’s 150th anniversary. Apple Music Classical is elevating the classical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With a handful of musicians playing a skilfully reduced score and a minimal staging by Caroline Staunton, this Ring cycle is an intense and involving experience Regents Opera are staging their first ...

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 ...

Discover the world of Wagner, the controversial composer whose work has graced box office movies, kids’ cartoons and some of classical music’s longest, most brooding operas. Here’s how to get your ...