In what is expected to be a Wagnerian event for the ages, soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera’s most famous act of filial ...
TUNDI Productions’ Wagner in Vermont Festival opened with a powerful production of “Die Walküre” Friday at Brattleboro’s Latchis Theatre, one that was not only musically excellent but dramatically ...
The second part of Patrice Chérau's epoch-making Bayreuth Ring is a radical re-imagining of Die Walküre, unprecedented in its psychological penetration. This production of " Die Walkure," staged as ...
One major advantage of unveiling a production of Wagner’s Ring cycle year by year over four years is that you don’t need to decide at the beginning how it will end. The director of the Royal Opera’s ...
Atlanta Opera’s “Die Walküre,” which bows at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center on April 27, is a notable event for multiple reasons. Not only is this the first time the work has been produced in the ...
SANTA FE – The Jemez and Sangre de Cristo mountains had vanished into the night sky by the time Ryan Speedo Green sang his first words as Wotan in Wagner’s “Die Walküre.” Still, their invisible ...
The highly-accomplished dramatic soprano Anja Kampe is a native of Germany, and studied both in Dresden and in Torino, Italy. In 2003 she was invited by Placido Domingo to sing Sieglinde in Wagner's ...
There’s no shortage of classic recordings of the second and most popular opera in Wagner’s four-part “Ring” cycle. This new version — first installment of a projected complete “Ring” cycle from the ...
Delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, Stefan Herheim’s “Ring” cycle, rumored for a future Met Opera season, gets underway in Berlin. By Ben Miller BERLIN — On a warm September afternoon, a startling ...
The task is simple: walk or die.