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 ...

Productions take very different approaches to the central symbol of this epic cycle, treating Wagner with daring freedom. By Zachary Woolfe Is it oil? Is it youth? Is it tactile? Invisible? For Wagner ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Australian conductor Simone Young (Sandra Steh) When it comes to Richard Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelung," Simone Young knows no ...

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 ...

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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, ...

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 ...

Richard Wagner’s legendary “Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung),” with its four contiguous operas evoking a new musical language, power and force, has been presented nearly annually at ...

When the Washington Opera made its first foray into Wagner -- a 1975 production of "Die Walkure," the second of four operas in the composer's epic cycle, "Der Ring des Nibelungen" -- fledgling ...

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Near the close of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold, the first of the four operas that make up his epic Ring of the Nibelung cycle, Donner the God of Thunder delivers a depressing weather ...

ZURICH — In an age of radical reinterpretations, conductor Gianandrea Noseda and director Andreas Homoki created a counterrevolutionary version of Wagner’s four-night, 15-hour Ring Cycle that sparked ...