When we last saw Brunnhilde in Atlanta, in the second segment of Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle, DIE WALKURE, she’d been punished by the gods for saving Sieglinde, but rescued by her father, Wotan. She ...
The Metropolitan Opera forged ahead in late October with a new production of "Siegfried," the third opera of Richard Wagner's epic four-opera cycle, "Der Ring des Nibelungen." This time Robert Lepage ...
ACT ONE: The drama begins with a violent storm. The setting is a hut deep in the forest, the home of Sieglinde and Hunding. Its roof is supported by the branches of a tree, which rises through the ...
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. Gotterdammerung, however, is the biggest challenge for her and will be, ultimately, the principal means by which her Brunnhilde here and ...
Christine Goerke is staking her future, as are four opera houses, on her becoming the top Wagnerian singer of her generation. The dramatic soprano is donning the corsets and work boots of Brunnhilde ...
"Die Walkure," the second opera in the new Wagner Ring, is up and running at the San Francisco War Memorial Opera House, with performances through June 30. With former music director Donald Runnicles ...
BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) - The gods did not go up in flames but the audience erupted in a fury of booing on Wednesday night as an unorthodox new staging of Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle for his ...
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