When the Los Angeles Opera launches its most ambitious project to date — a 10-week citywide festival celebrating Richard Wagner’s “The Ring,” which will culminate in a massive production of the epic ...

Richard Wagner’s gigantic “Der Ring des Nibelungen” cycle is no longer a rare creature. We’re flooded with recordings of the “Ring,” and more opera companies worldwide have been staging the whole ...

It’s one of the great epics of Western civilization, a four-part drama of family dysfunction and betrayal, of gods and mortals, giants and dwarfs, sacrifice and ultimate cleansing and renewal by fire ...

This DVD cover image released by Deutsche Grammophon, U.S. shows the Met Opera “Ring” DVD box set. (AP Photo/Deutsche Grammophon) Various Artists, "Wagner's Ring," (Deutsche Grammophon) Robert ...

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Picture the Rhine as an American river and the Niebelungs (dwellers of the underworld) as members of America's underclass. A bold new interpretation of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle, setting its ...

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 ...

“Der Ring des Nibelungen,” WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Wagner over some 26 years, 1848-74. The works are based loosely on characters from German heroic ...

Siegfried, Brünnhilde, Wotan and company are heading for Houston, as Houston Grand Opera prepares to tackle the Mount Everest of opera, Richard Wagner's monumental Ring Cycle. This new Ring Cycle will ...

Last weekend, the Metropolitan Opera brought back to its stage Wagner’s Ring (Der Ring des Nibelungen) to be seen three more times this season. This is the new production by Canadian director Robert ...

MUNICH, Germany — Wagner’s “The Ring of Nibelung” is no picnic. The epic four-evening mythic drama is the macho challenge with which operas prove themselves. It practically did in Los Angeles Opera ...