“My Walküre turns out terribly beautiful,” Richard Wagner wrote to his friend, the composer Franz Liszt, on June 16, 1852. “I hope to submit to you the whole poem of the tetralogy before the end of ...

Atlanta Opera’s “Die Walküre,” which bows at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center on April 27, is a notable event for multiple reasons. Not only is this the first time the work has been produced in the ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The Jemez and Sangre de Cristo mountains had vanished into the night sky by the time Ryan Speedo Green sang his first words as Wotan in Wagner’s “Die Walküre.” Still, their ...

TUNDI Productions’ Wagner in Vermont Festival opened with a powerful production of “Die Walküre” Friday at Brattleboro’s Latchis Theatre, one that was not only musically excellent but dramatically ...

Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rheingold the prologue or Vorabend. Musically and dramatically, we are introduced to a radically new ...

There are daunting shows for performers — and then there is Wagner’s Ring Cycle. Imagine having to sing The Lord of the Rings over an orchestra summoning the end and then rebirth of the world. The ...

Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto was an instant classic from the moment that lyrical first phrase was first intoned on March 13, 1845, by Ferdinand David. On Saturday, May 18, 23-year-old violinist ...

There’s big, there’s gigantic — and then there’s Die Walküre. Pacific Opera Victoria has at the ready its first-ever production of the Richard Wagner classic, which took the German composer 25 years ...

Weep for joy, friends. The Atlanta Opera has assembled a magnificent world-class cast for the most challenging of operas. Tomer Zvulun, general and artistic director of the Atlanta Opera, has called ...

Experience a Wagnerian event for the ages starring Christine Goerke as the willful warrior Brünnhilde alongside Stuart Skelton, Eva-Maria Westbroek and Greer Grimsley. Philippe Jordan conducts. Set in ...

Delayed by the coronavirus pandemic, Stefan Herheim’s “Ring” cycle, rumored for a future Met Opera season, gets underway in Berlin. By Ben Miller BERLIN — On a warm September afternoon, a startling ...