Götterdämmerung is an opera by Richard Wagner. It is the fourth and last of the cycle of operas that together tell a story called Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). The story ...

This past Saturday, it was twilight at Tanglewood with a full moon rising. What better time and place to hear an elite cohort of singers headed by the formidable Wagnerian soprano Christine Goerke as ...

Götterdämmerung or Twilight of the Gods), is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four music dramas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung, or The Ring for short). It received its ...

Water and fire. Gold. Magic ring and helmet. Anvils. Sword and spear. A sounding horn. Can any opera match the four of Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung for so dramatizing things? And there are ...

Richard Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelung” has had a cult following since it premiered at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany in ...

LENOX — Opera takes over the Tanglewood grounds this week, with a mighty snippet from the genre’s most famous epic and a contemporary take on a baroque spectacular. On July 18, Les Arts Florissants, a ...

The second act culminates in a revenge trio worthy of Meyerbeer. Siegfried’s squalid onstage murder – shades of Bizet’s exactly contemporary Carmen – is followed by a thirty-minute disquisition on the ...

The Ring in Weimar enters its final round as a drama of hate jealousy and betrayal A dark e minor chord opens Richard Wagners Götterdämmerung and creates a threatening atmosphere from the very first ...

Wagner’s Ring Cycle in a converted chicken shed. There is a touch of Fitzcarraldo about the story of Longborough Opera. One—celebrated in a ludicrously ambitious film by Werner Herzog—involved an ...

Alex Ross, the music critic for the New Yorker magazine, has written a wonderful if daunting new book. “Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music” is a history of everything Wagnerian since ...

They were already in trouble... then she turned up.