Captured live in concert performances, Fabio Luisi’s clear-sighted command and strong orchestral playing make this Wagner set frequently impressive, with Mark Delavan an authorative Wotan ...

Throughout the Ring Wagner uses not only melody and harmony but instrumental tone colour to convey the mood or atmosphere or emotion of any particular instant. There are examples in Rheingold (the ...

Volker von Alzey, the royal bard of the Burgunds (far greater then modern Burgundy), ruled by the Christian, papist king Gunther, who has two brave, loyal brothers and a sister Kriemhild, tells in ...

Siegfried is the third of the four music dramas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. It premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on August 16, 1876, as ...

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 ...

Die Nibelungen – Siegfrieds Tod The first part of this two-sectioned film, centered about the Nibelungen legends, appeared under the title of Siegfried , and was received with respect if not with ...

Fritz Lang’s epic adaptation of Die Nibelungen is five hours of ridiculous nonsense. But, my word, is it impressively ridiculous nonsense. The all-encompassing grandeur and sweep of the story towers ...

Following performances of Das Rheingold in November 2022 and Die Walküre in May 2023, Regents Opera now presents the third opera in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. While its predecessor Fulham Opera ...

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