It’s one of the great epics of Western civilization, a four-part drama of family dysfunction and betrayal, of gods and mortals, giants and dwarfs, sacrifice and ultimate cleansing and renewal by fire ...

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, ...

Lise Lindstrom (as Brünnhilde) and Daniel Johansson (Siegfried) embraced as music director Fabio Luisi conducted the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Richard Wagner's "Siegfried" at the Meyerson Symphony ...

Then General Music Director (GMD) of the Komische Oper Berlin Kirill Petrenko conducts in the Komische Oper Berlin during a rehearsal of the comedy "Der Rosenkavalier" by Richard Strauss. The ...

Opera fans from around the world, especially Richard Wagner aficionados, will flock to the War Memorial Opera House June 12-July 1 as San Francisco Opera presents three cycles of the composer’s ...

Richard Wagner’s legendary “Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung),” with its four contiguous operas evoking a new musical language, power and force, has been presented nearly annually at ...

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FILE - Visitors walk the grounds of the festival opera house "Festspielhaus" in Bayreuth, southern Germany, on July 17, 2010. A special Ring Cycle will be performed for the 150th anniversary Bayreuth ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The worlds of opera and local politics collided this week over Richard ...

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