NEW YORK (AP) — The Metropolitan Opera is replacing Robert Lepage's controversial production of Wagner's Ring Cycle with a new staging by British director Richard Jones. Jones' version of the ...

NEW YORK — One morning in August, Peter Gelb settled into a seat in the nearly empty auditorium of the Metropolitan Opera, where he is the general manager, and waited for a run-through of Wagner’s ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. In Richard Wagner’s “Das Rheingold,” the first opera of his four-part ...

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At Seattle Opera, the “Ring” is the thing. Richard Wagner’s 137-year-old, four-opera epic, based on the same Norse legends that inspired J.R.R.Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” trilogy, has been a ...

Sunday, midnight, Los Angeles Ordinance No. 181069, which is meant to close down numerous medical marijuana dispensaries around town, went into effect. No police, however, needed summoning to the ...

The Bastille Opera House presents Siegfried by Richard Wagner, the third installment of The Ring of the Nibelung, in a ...

After all the buildup, the promotion and the hype, the stakes for the LA Opera’s first performance of Richard Wagner’s complete Ring cycle were equally high to the stakes that characters face within ...

Long before "The Lord of the Rings," there was "The Ring of the Nibelung." Composer Richard Wagner shaped Norse and Germanic legends into an epic four-opera tale of gods, magic, power lust and ...

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 ...

Evelyn Herlitzius has withdrawn from the San Francisco Opera’s upcoming performances of Wagner’s “Der Ring des Nibelungen” (The Ring of the Nibelung), due to “unforeseen health reasons,” the company ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Michael Cooper Joshua Barone and Seth Colter Walls It is one of the pinnacle roles in all of opera: Wotan, king of the gods in Wagner’s epic “Ring.