That anyone can sing Siegfried, the title role in Wagner's third Ring opera, is surprising, so challenging is the role. That anyone can sing it like Stefan Vinke is astounding. Lise Lindstrom as ...

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 ...

You have reached your maximum number of saved items. Remove items from your saved list to add more. Nearly everything about opera is big, from drama to voices, but there’s nothing bigger than Richard ...

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

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.

In 1993 Leigh Sachwitz packed a single suitcase and left her native Glasgow for Berlin on a one-way ticket in search of adventure. An architecture graduate from the Glasgow School of Art, Sachwitz ...

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 ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The summer of 2026 will mark the 150th anniversary of Richard Wagner’s four-part opera cycle, “The Ring of the Nibelung,” better known as the “Ring Cycle.” Valkyries, giants, dragons, and the pantheon ...

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 ...

Over the next few weeks, almost 50 hours of opera will play out on the stage of Bendigo’s Ulumbarra Theatre, starting from Friday. It’s one of the most grand, epic and ambitious projects an opera ...