Each winter thousands of sophisticated Manhattanites throng the Metropolitan Opera House to goggle at old-fashioned Norse gods and blimp-like maidens disporting themselves in animal skins and burlap.

Wagner was finally able to return to his homeland in 1862 where he continued work on his biggest undertaking: The Ring Cycle ...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Trust a Hungarian Jewish conductor to look beyond Richard Wagner's notorious anti-semitism and infamous personal life to mount a Wagner festival on a tight budget that has become ...

The world had plenty of reasons to forget Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle, “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” None of the four makes sense without the others—they premiered together in 1876—but the prospect ...

As the Buffalo Philharmonic prepares to perform Wagner's operatic prelude to Die Meistersinger, I find myself grappling with the notion of participating in the rendition of music composed by an ...

HOLLYWOOD, prepare to witness a live blockbuster. L.A. Opera will debut the first part of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, “Das Rheingold,” on Saturday, a moment long in coming to Los Angeles that was first ...

The renowned German opera singer Peter Seiffert has died at the age of 71, his agency reported on Tuesday. Seiffert, a celebrated interpreter of Wagner, passed away on Monday in his adopted home near ...

A group of Valkyries from an 1899 production of The Ring - Lebrecht Music/Alamy It takes some chutzpah to write an opera about Richard Wagner, that titanically complex figure (both as man and musician ...