The original fantasy boxset comes to Radio 3 and BBC Sounds in February 2021 in a dramatic Royal Opera House staging. The Ring of the Nibelung (AKA "Der Ring des Nibelungen", AKA the "Ring Cycle ...

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Under the baton of Music Director Carl St.Clair-one of today's foremost Wagner interpreters-audiences can experience the raw ...

The four full-length Ring operas lasted a total of 14 hours ... one horse. Richard Wagner’s masterpiece contains practically every theatrical trick except Eliza crossing the ice—swimming ...

Discover the world of Wagner, the controversial composer whose work has graced box office movies, kids’ cartoons and some of classical music’s longest, most brooding operas. Here’s how to ...

The Atlanta Opera's presentation of Wagner's Ring cycle reaches its magnificent conclusion in the coming season with Tomer Zvulun's new production of Twilight of the Gods (“Götterdämmerung ...

His operas, with their reoccurring ... Following an uprising in March 1849, Wagner fled to Zurich, where he began to work on ...