After coming off the Motel / Route 66 Rheingold, overloaded and exciting, weird and captivating, Frank Castorf’s Walküre must seem conventional. Or maybe it should be called Aleksandar Denić ...

When Frank Philipp Schlossmann designed the sets for this Ring. Hunding’s hut for the first scene of Walkure has become a simplified baronial hall, and the famous tree from which Seigmund will ...

“Die Walkure” is the second installment of the stereo “Ring” from the 1955 Bayreuth Festival, recorded complete with the cream of the postwar generation of Wagner singers under the ...

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Last year she made her debut at Wagner's own theater in Bayreuth, singing Freia, the goddess of youth and beauty, in "Das Rhinegold," and Gerhilde, the number-two Valkyrie, in "Die Walkure." ...

It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on June 26, 1870, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on August 14 ...

Die Walküre, Bayreuth Festival: a fine cast, but this fails to take full flight Part two of Valentin Schwarz’s stripped-back Ring cycle has plenty of surprises up its sleeve, but not always for ...

Ist Netflix zu klein für Wagners „Ring des Nibelungen“? Gestern schien es in Bayreuth noch so. Auch deshalb habe ich heute vor der „Walküre“ erst einmal meinen „Geldermann“-Gutschein eingelöst. Doch ...

This week he recalls Hildegarde Beherens as Brunnhilde in Wagner's Die Walkure from his production of The Ring at Bayreuth. 'Hildegarde sang radiantly and behaved throughout the summer like a ...

Bayreuth - Erleichterung in Bayreuth. Der Wotan-Sänger, der in der "Walküre"-Premiere eine Unfall erlitten hatte und die Vorstellung abbrechen musste, ist auf dem Weg der Besserung. Das ...

It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre Munich on June 26, 1870, and received its first performance as part of the Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on August 14 ...