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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

Known simply as the Ring Cycle, or the Ring, it features 16 hours of music and singing based on Norse mythology. Opera Australia artistic director Lyndon Terracini, the man behind the event, said it ...

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 ...

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 ...