Stories are stories are stories, whether it’s Wagner’s Wotan and Fricka (in the Ring), Handel’s Jupiter and Juno (in Handel’s ...

The Ring Without Words as performed by The San Diego Symphony on Saturday, November 11, was all I hoped it would be. The pacing and structure of Lorin Maazel’s adaptation of Wagner’s Ring Cycle are ...

Metalheads like to throw the word epic around. But even the wickedest Manowar guitar solo or Blind Guardian concept album is impotent next to the sheer magnitude of Richard Wagner's Ring Cycle. The ...

Call it “Siegfried” and chill, or maybe bingeable Wagner. The Atlanta Opera’s upcoming production of “Siegfried” is the third opera in Robert Wagner’s four-opera “Der Ring des Nibelungen” cycle. A ...

With a team of researchers and dedicated musicians, the conductor Kent Nagano is taking a historically informed performance approach to Wagner’s epic. By Joshua Barone Reporting from Amsterdam What ...

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 ...

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 ...

This 2014 photo shows Calixto Bieito, whose production of Wagner's "Das Rheingold" is performing at the Paris Opra through Feb. 19. (Monika Rittershaus via AP) (Monika Rittershaus) PARIS – Calixto ...

Under the baton of Music Director Carl St.Clair-one of today's foremost Wagner interpreters-audiences can experience the raw power and gripping narrative of Richard Wagner's majestic opera, performed ...

Are you a Wagner fan? If so, you were likely excited by the Washington National Opera's presentation of The Ring of the Nibelungen, a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner, in May 2016. Perhaps you ...