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 ...

Throughout the Ring Wagner uses not only melody and harmony but instrumental tone colour to convey the mood or atmosphere or emotion of any particular instant. There are examples in Rheingold (the ...

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 ...

Jurowski’s attention to detail across four-and-a-half hours brought the darkness of Wagner’s score thrillingly to life Wagner’s Ring cycle is famously long. Even so, a cycle that has lasted more than ...

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 ...

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 ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. It was like an acid trip for opera buffs. As the brass band played, eight Xena Princess Warrior ...