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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 ...

The Austrian tenor is making his Royal Opera debut as Siegfried in the third instalment of of the Ring Cycle. He explains why operetta prepared him for the opera’s epic demands, and why Wagner’s louti ...

Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung),” WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas. They are based loosely on characters from Germanic heroic legend, in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Then General Music Director (GMD) of the Komische Oper Berlin Kirill Petrenko conducts in the Komische Oper Berlin during a ...

Staging any opera is rarely a modest undertaking, but if that opera happens to be by Richard Wagner, “modest” must go out the window. Typically, one needs a large theater, an outsized orchestra, and ...

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 ...

NEW YORK — True to form, an autocratic executive wrapping up a real estate deal is trying to wiggle out of paying contractors. The project, a gleaming, fortified executive residence and business ...

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra will release of its debut album in collaboration with Deutsche Grammophon, featuring ...

Ever since Music Director Eun Sun Kim and the San Francisco Opera first announced a multiyear plan for her to conduct one of Wagner's works in each season, it's been understood that the project would ...

The Berlin Philharmonic is set to stage operas by German composer Richard Wagner at the renowned Salzburg Easter Festival in Austria over the coming years. The orchestra, led by Russian-Austrian chief ...