How Directors Mine the Gold at the Heart of Wagner’s ‘Ring’
Productions take very different approaches to the central symbol of this epic cycle, treating Wagner with daring freedom.
Rounding out ‘The Ring’: The Dallas Symphony completes its survey of Wagner’s epic
Richard Wagner conceived his Ring of the Nibelung as a multimedia epic, uniting the arts to tell a story of gods, mortals and ...
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France: 'Gold on the Rhine' comes to Opéra de la Bastille in Paris in an adaptation by Calixto Bieito
The artistic director Calixto Bieito and the orchestral director Pablo Heras-Casado, both Spanish, direct scenery and music ...
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Wagner's The Ring - plot essentials
On the bed of the Rhine, the Nibelung dwarf Alberich steals the Rhinegold from its guardians, the Rhinemaidens. Alberich then forges the Rhinegold into an all-powerful ring, but he has had to ...
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Six ways you learned about Wagner's Ring Cycle without even noticing
The Ring of the Nibelung (AKA "Der Ring des Nibelungen", AKA the "Ring Cycle") is a series of four epic – and we mean epic – operas by Richard Wagner, who took somewhere in the region of 26 ...
Review: The Philharmonic Breezes Through Wagner’s Epic ‘Ring’
The conductor Nathalie Stutzmann led Lorin Maazel’s coolly efficient 1987 distillation, “The ‘Ring’ Without Words,” at David ...