LENOX - In three concerts over two days, Boston Symphony Orchestra music director Andris Nelsons guided Tanglewood’s Music Center Orchestra through one of the most monumental undertakings in ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Barrie Kosky’s new production of Wagner’s Ring opened in 2023 with Das Rheingold, the theme of ecological catastrophe was already abundantly clear. In the second instalment, Die Walkure, evidence ...

Brunnhilde, complete with breastplate, spear and helmet, represents opera to many people. She has been displayed on opera posters as well as appearing as the subject of cartoons. Brunnhilde is a ...

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The prelude to Wagner’s epic Ring Cycle concentrated on the immortals and the theme of greed. The follow up moves the focus to the mortals and the topic to that of love and duty. Wotan (Bela Percencz) ...

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NEW YORK — Stage directors and opera lovers often coexist in a state of enmity. The director wants to reinterpret; the audience wants to see the piece as the composer intended it. Robert Lepage, the ...

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The dear old Royal Albert Hall is unlikely to be anyone’s favourite venue for a five-hour opera at the height of a heatwave suffering, as it does, from extraordinarily inconsistent acoustics and ...

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) 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 ...