Its challenging length, fantastical plot and unsavory associations weigh on Wagner’s “Ring” cycle. Yet it still soars.

The Metropolitan Opera will present Richard Wagner's four-part masterwork Der Ring des Nibelungen in performances March 9-May 11, 2019. This season's performances are the first time the Met has ...

San Francisco Opera's presentation of Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung) opens tonight with the first of three complete cycles, each presented over the course of ...

Also playing: "Götterdämmerung," the fourth, final, and arguably most magnificent installment of the "Ring," opens on April 27 at 11 A.M. (Metropolitan Opera House; Through May 11.) ...

Part of the continuing intrigue with Opera Australia's Der Ring des Nibelungen is seeing how director Neil Armfield stages the various preludes. Even though Wagner, ever exact, specified to the ...

Program Richard Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen; Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) Artists Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor, Siegfried) Birgit Nilsson (soprano, Brünnhilde) ...

Royal Opera House (020 7304 4000), to 2 Nov Need to know 'Der ring des Nibelungen' was first performed in 1876 but was begun in 1848 in response to civil unrest in Europe.

Richard Wagner’s legendary “Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung),” with its four contiguous operas evoking a new musical language, power and force, has been presented nearly annually at ...

The Royal Opera has just presented the first complete cycle of Keith Warner's production of Wagner's Ring, and the unmitigatedly good news is Antonio Pappano's conducting. Over the staging's three ...

Der Ring des Nibelungen, at Covent Garden – Seven magazine review The performance of Wagner's complete Ring Cycle is always a major event – but this is a decent, rather than devastating, version ...