In what is expected to be a Wagnerian event for the ages, soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera’s most famous act of filial ...

Wagner was finally able to return to his homeland in 1862 where he continued work on his biggest undertaking: The Ring Cycle ...

Die Walküre is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National ...

Weep for joy, friends. The Atlanta Opera has assembled a magnificent world-class cast for the most challenging of operas. Tomer Zvulun, general and artistic director of the Atlanta Opera, has called ...

One major advantage of unveiling a production of Wagner’s Ring cycle year by year over four years is that you don’t need to decide at the beginning how it will end. The director of the Royal Opera’s ...

NEW YORK -- Jonas Kaufmann knew he was taking a risk when he agreed five years ago to sing the role of Siegmund, the doomed hero of Wagner's "Die Walkuere," in the Metropolitan Opera's new production ...

Halloween came early to the Southland via the Kirov Opera production of Wagner's tetralogy, "Der Ring des Nibelungen," with "Das Rheingold" and "Die Walkure" heard over the weekend and "Siegfried" and ...

This week in the magazine, Alex Ross writes about Richard Wagner's "Ring," focussing in on ten haunting measures from Act II of "Die Walküre," the second opera of the four-part cycle. Here Ross ...

Is an opera performed in concert as satisfying as one fully staged? That could be a major question for Tanglewood this season, since at least four operas (or scenes thereof) are being presented in ...

The highly-accomplished dramatic soprano Anja Kampe is a native of Germany, and studied both in Dresden and in Torino, Italy. In 2003 she was invited by Placido Domingo to sing Sieglinde in Wagner's ...

Denni Sayers stands over Elisabet Strid and Brandon Jovanovich, tapping her finger to her mouth as she steps back. “Brandon, can you lower her to the floor?” Sayers asks. “Like this?” Kneeling on the ...