The Metropolitan Opera forged ahead in late October with a new production of "Siegfried," the third opera of Richard Wagner's epic four-opera cycle, "Der Ring des Nibelungen." This time Robert Lepage ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Gotterdammerung, however, is the biggest challenge for her and will be, ultimately, the principal means by which her Brunnhilde here and ...

Call it “Siegfried” and chill, or maybe bingeable Wagner. The Atlanta Opera’s upcoming production of “Siegfried” is the third opera in Robert Wagner’s four-opera “Der Ring des Nibelungen” cycle. A ...

ACT ONE: The drama begins with a violent storm. The setting is a hut deep in the forest, the home of Sieglinde and Hunding. Its roof is supported by the branches of a tree, which rises through the ...

Christine Goerke is staking her future, as are four opera houses, on her becoming the top Wagnerian singer of her generation. The dramatic soprano is donning the corsets and work boots of Brunnhilde ...

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When the Metropolitan Opera Company was begging for its life last winter its most eloquent plea was the stirring performances given in the Wagner Matinee Cycle. Not since the War had New York heard ...

After 45 years' absence, Lorin Maazel returns to the Met to conduct Wagner's Die Walkure. Lisa Gasteen, Deborah Voigt and Clifton Forbis lead the cast as the first human beings step into the limelight ...

The opening scene begins in near-darkness and is heavy in symbolism. It opens on the Valkyries' rock, where the three Norns (offspring of Erda) weave a rope of knowledge representing a physical ...