The third part of Wagner's Ring cycle is sometimes least exciting, but Australian director Barrie Kosky's thrilling Siegfried kept the audience enthralled Everything about this production is superb.
From the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Wagner's depiction of the intense, forbidden love between a Cornish knight and an Irish princess. Tristan has been tasked with transporting Isolde to Cornwall ...
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 ...
The Swedish soprano spoke to us ahead of her Royal Opera House performances as Brünnhilde in Barrie Kosky’s new staging of Wagner’s Siegfried Swedish soprano Elisabet Strid has become one of the most ...
NEW YORK (AP) — About 4 ½ hours after the first notes of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde,” a startling sound emerges from the wings, one many in the audience likely have never heard before. A nearly ...
The Houston Symphony and five opera singers presented Act II of Richard Wagner's opera "Tristan and Isolde" on Sunday, amply demonstrating the dramatic potential of their concert performance and the ...
San Francisco Opera will open its upcoming season with Verdi’s stirring political drama “Simon Boccanegra,” signaling an invitation to gather in the opera house’s unifying space to celebrate stories ...
As Wotan in Patrice Chéreau’s neo-Marxist staging of the “Ring” cycle, he was part of a celebrated, polarizing moment in opera history. Donald McIntyre as Wotan and Gwyneth Jones as Brünnhilde in ...
The singers did marvelous work at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, where the director Calixto Bieito’s new staging takes place in a hellish dystopia. By Oussama Zahr Reviewing from Paris See more of our ...
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Wagner College Opera will present “Echoes Between the Lines” next month, a program featuring scenes from Mozart, Handel, Verdi, Puccini, Berlioz, Sondheim, Lehár and Bernstein.
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, ...
Boston Lyric Opera’s RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES! – a loving send-up of Richard Wagner’s “The Ring Cycle” that marries a “Ziegfeld Follies”-inspired take on the classic German opus with opera’s greatest ...