Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Irene Theorin, left, as Brünnhilde and Daniel Brenna as Siegfried embrace for Richard Wagner's four-part "Ring" cycle, ...

Captured live in concert performances, Fabio Luisi’s clear-sighted command and strong orchestral playing make this Wagner set frequently impressive, with Mark Delavan an authorative Wotan ...

The four-part cycle—Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung—will be performed in three complete cycles from June 13–July 2, 2028, with pre-cycle performances of individual operas ...

Stories are stories are stories, whether it’s Wagner’s Wotan and Fricka (in the Ring), Handel’s Jupiter and Juno (in Handel’s ...

Tacoma Opera is betting big on Wagner. At the end of composer Richard Wagner’s “Das Rheingold,” which the company will present in two performances at the Pantages Theater Oct. 3 and 5, the gods cross ...

While Fabio Luisi works wonders with orchestral timbres and textures, the singers are a mixed bag.

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 ...

On Sunday at Brattleboro’s Latchis Theatre, Vermont’s first-ever Wagner “Ring” Cycle came to a close with “Gotterdammerung,” or “Twilight of the Gods.” At its center is Brunnhilde,” a goddess and ...

Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, a mythical tetralogy with an ambition to relate nothing less than the creation and destruction of the world, will turn 150 next year. Numerous productions young and old ...