In the next three operas, these characters try to make up for major blunders (chief god Wotan), wreak more havoc (nasty Nibelungen dwarfs Alberich and Mime), nag with prescient words (Wotan's wife, ...

In all of Western culture there is nothing quite like Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (“The Ring of the Nibelung”). Based on Wagner’s own retelling of stories from ancient German and ...

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 ...

Adam Diegel as Froh, Günther Groissböck as Fasolt, Wendy Bryn Harmer as Freia, Jamie Barton as Fricka, Norbert Ernst as Loge, Dmitry Belosselskiy as Fafner, and Greer Grimsley as Wotan in Wagner’s Das ...

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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 ...

Das Rheingold is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen or The Ring of the Nibelung. It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre ...

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In writing Rheingold Wagner managed to break just about every operatic tradition prevailing at that time. I do not think that he consciously set out to do so; what happened was that his imaginative ...

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 ...

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