This majestic, epic piece of Wagner’s Ring Cycle makes a rare regional appearance. Das Rheingold requires a cast of more than 12 characters with specialized voices. Baritone Lester Lynch leads Das ...

Part of Wagner’s Ring cycle makes its delayed debut in Atlanta. When he took the job as general and artistic director of the Atlanta Opera in 2013, Tomer Zvulun knew what he was working toward. The ...

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Near the close of Richard Wagner’s Das Rheingold, the first of the four operas that make up his epic Ring of the Nibelung cycle, Donner the God of Thunder delivers a depressing weather ...

There are no supernatural women arriving on horseback to escort slain warriors to the afterlife. There's just a trio of mermaids, a couple of giants and a loveless dwarf, along with a bunch of gods, ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. I needn’t have worried. Achim Freyer’s staging of ‘Das Rheingold’ is as ...

Richard Wagner once described his trailblazing brand of opera as “deeds of music made visible.” The new production of “Das Rheingold” that opened Seattle Opera’s 60th season Saturday adds a literal ...

It’s one of the great epics of Western civilization, a four-part drama of family dysfunction and betrayal, of gods and mortals, giants and dwarfs, sacrifice and ultimate cleansing and renewal by fire ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Olafur Sigurdarson as Alberich in Schwarz’s production of Das Rheingold at ...

Alan Gilbert’s concluding concerts as music director of the New York Philharmonic were originally supposed to include Messiaen’s extravaganza “Saint François d’Assise.” That would have been a fitting ...

New production is blueprint for other regional companies. German composer Richard Wagner’s epic “Das Rheingold” (The Gold from the Rhine) will be performed for the first time in Dayton Opera history ...

At the end of Opera North’s first performance of Das Rheingold, conductor Richard Farnes singled out the orchestra section by section (horns and Wagner tubas inevitably, rightly, first) for applause ...