(Critic’s Notebook): NEW YORK — When the Metropolitan Opera began to roll out Robert Lepage’s production of Wagner’s “Ring” cycle, in 2010, I was a student who spent most of my time at the Met in the ...
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This question loomed over the return, on Saturday afternoon, of Robert Lepage’s production of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold” to the Metropolitan Opera after a six-year absence. Lepage’s ambitious staging of ...
"Das Rheingold" is the first opera of Richard Wagner's monumental "Der Ring des Nibelungen." "'The Ring' is not just a story or a series of operas, it's a cosmos," said Robert Lepage, the director of ...
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 ...
Adam Diegel as Froh, Günther Groissböck as Fasolt, Wendy Bryn Harmer as Freia, Jamie Barton as Fricka, Norbert Ernst as Loge, Dmitry Belosselskiy as Fafner, and Greer Grimsley as Wotan in Wagner’s Das ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Fabio Luisi, a seasoned “Ring” conductor, will lead Wagner’s four-opera epic over a week in concert, breaking new ground for ...
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 ...
The world had plenty of reasons to forget Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle, “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” None of the four makes sense without the others—they premiered together in 1876—but the prospect ...
An intrepid British fringe opera company and its dauntless conductor-arranger have taken on a bold project that has defeated any number of high-profile companies. In their groundbreaking Der Ring des ...
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 ...