Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Irene Theorin, left, as Brünnhilde and Daniel Brenna as Siegfried embrace for Richard Wagner's four-part "Ring" cycle, ...

Volante Opera Productions has announced that Paul Corfield Godfrey’s operatic adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is now available for pre-order. Titled Musical Chapters from The Lord of the Rings: ...

Arguably, no opera casts a longer shadow than Richard Wagner’s four-part, 15-hour “Ring” cycle. Since its full-length premiere in 1876, directors have reimagined, reconfigured, paid homage to and ...

Tacoma Opera is betting big on Wagner. At the end of composer Richard Wagner’s “Das Rheingold,” which the company will present in two performances at the Pantages Theater Oct. 3 and 5, the gods cross ...

The four-part cycle—Das Rheingold, Die Walküre, Siegfried, and Götterdämmerung—will be performed in three complete cycles from June 13–July 2, 2028, with pre-cycle performances of individual operas ...

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 ...

The Atlanta Opera’s 46th season will open with a coproduction with the Alliance Theatre and spotlight five other works, including Philip Glass’ innovative “La Belle et la Bête” (“Beauty and the Beast” ...

It is one of the pinnacle roles in all of opera: Wotan, king of the gods in Wagner’s epic “Ring.” It’s a nearly fathomless part that demands a beautiful voice, power, subtle acting, keen intelligence ...

Ever since Music Director Eun Sun Kim and the San Francisco Opera first announced a multiyear plan for her to conduct one of Wagner's works in each season, it's been understood that the project would ...