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 ...

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Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libretto by the composer. It is the second of the four operas that form Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of Richard Wagner’s “Die Walkure” invites audiences to visit a netherworld of fantasy, adventure and intrigue. Even for the ears of an audience member not familiar ...

Calixto Bieito’s sadistic staging at the Opéra Bastille is rescued by a dream-team cast and conductor Pablo Heras-Casado ...

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Weep for joy, friends. The Atlanta Opera has assembled a magnificent world-class cast for the most challenging of operas. Tomer Zvulun, general and artistic director of the Atlanta Opera, has called ...

The opera is a major undertaking for any company, but Grange Park has taken it in its stride, presenting an imaginative and intelligent staging, and to high musical standards, not least from the ...

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 ...

Denni Sayers stands over Elisabet Strid and Brandon Jovanovich, tapping her finger to her mouth as she steps back. “Brandon, can you lower her to the floor?” Sayers asks. “Like this?” Kneeling on the ...

Practical considerations, namely an orchestra pit too small to accommodate Wagnerian forces, have led Opera North to mount their Ring Cycle as a semi-staged production in Leeds’s spectacular Victorian ...