Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by In his “Ring” cycle, Wagner uses musical themes to create a world of gods, heroes, dwarves and giants. By Michael Cooper Of all the special effects in ...

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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 ...

Der fliegende Holländer, The Flying Dutchman, is a German-language opera, with libretto and music by Richard Wagner. The Flying Dutchman is a legendary ghost ship that can never make port, doomed to ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Wagner College Opera invites audiences to experience a magical night of spellbinding music, fantasy, and philosophy in its upcoming production of Mozart’s “The Magic Flute.” ...

Wagner is difficult to appreciate: His operas are far too dense and much too long to be easily accessible. I don’t mean that the plot is a mess or that the music is inherently chaotic. It’s more ...

“Tannhäuser,” Richard Wagner’s paean to the provocative powers of the goddess Venus, will put Wagner and his theory of Gesamtkunstwerk center stage at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for the first time ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Irene Theorin, left, as Brünnhilde and Daniel Brenna as Siegfried embrace for Richard Wagner's four-part "Ring" cycle, ...