The Metropolitan Opera forged ahead in late October with a new production of "Siegfried," the third opera of Richard Wagner's epic four-opera cycle, "Der Ring des Nibelungen." This time Robert Lepage ...

ACT ONE: The drama begins with a violent storm. The setting is a hut deep in the forest, the home of Sieglinde and Hunding. Its roof is supported by the branches of a tree, which rises through the ...

Christine Goerke is staking her future, as are four opera houses, on her becoming the top Wagnerian singer of her generation. The dramatic soprano is donning the corsets and work boots of Brunnhilde ...

BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) - The gods did not go up in flames but the audience erupted in a fury of booing on Wednesday night as an unorthodox new staging of Richard Wagner's "Ring" cycle for his ...

The opening scene begins in near-darkness and is heavy in symbolism. It opens on the Valkyries' rock, where the three Norns (offspring of Erda) weave a rope of knowledge representing a physical ...

In Carnegie Hall last week, the greatest Brunnhilde of this generation, Kirsten Flagstad, 56, announced she was retiring after this season. On the same night, a new Brünnhilde made her debut at the ...