Richard Wagner’s gigantic “Der Ring des Nibelungen” cycle is no longer a rare creature. We’re flooded with recordings of the “Ring,” and more opera companies worldwide have been staging the whole ...

The singers did marvelous work at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, where the director Calixto Bieito’s new staging takes place in ...

When the Los Angeles Opera launches its most ambitious project to date — a 10-week citywide festival celebrating Richard Wagner’s “The Ring,” which will culminate in a massive production of the epic ...

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 ...

Los Angeles has little history with Wagner’s four-opera “Ring” cycle, his epic on how to save the world from conniving gods, power mongers and hoarders of wealth with their ruinous fancies. This ...

“Der Ring des Nibelungen,” WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Wagner over some 26 years, 1848-74. The works are based loosely on characters from German heroic ...

ZURICH — In an age of radical reinterpretations, conductor Gianandrea Noseda and director Andreas Homoki created a counterrevolutionary version of Wagner’s four-night, 15-hour Ring Cycle that sparked ...

The Ring Without Words as performed by The San Diego Symphony on Saturday, November 11, was all I hoped it would be. The pacing and structure of Lorin Maazel’s adaptation of Wagner’s Ring Cycle are ...

It would appear as though our political system is at the start of Wagner’s Ring Cycle. You may recall that The Ring starts with the dwarf, Alberich, stealing the Rhinegold in order to create a ring of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ZURICH (AP) — In an age of radical ...