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 ...

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES - It’s never been easy being a Wagnerian singer. The orchestras are huge, the operas long and the stage directors often mad. You need a big voice to cut through to the audience, ...

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 ...

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Atlanta Opera’s “Die Walküre,” which bows at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center on April 27, is a notable event for multiple reasons. Not only is this the first time the work has been produced in the ...

There’s no shortage of classic recordings of the second and most popular opera in Wagner’s four-part “Ring” cycle. This new version — first installment of a projected complete “Ring” cycle from the ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Jemez and Sangre de Cristo mountains had vanished into the night sky by the time Ryan Speedo Green sang his first words as Wotan in Wagner’s “Die Walküre.” Still, their ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The singing gloriously came to the fore of Achim Freyer’s staging of the ...

Gustavo Dudamel will conduct a series of performances of Wagner's Die Walküre at Walt Disney Concert Hall from May 19 to May 24, 2026. This production, which follows an acclaimed staging of Das ...

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 ...

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