The world had plenty of reasons to forget Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle, “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” None of the four makes sense without the others—they premiered together in 1876—but the prospect ...

Each winter thousands of sophisticated Manhattanites throng the Metropolitan Opera House to goggle at old-fashioned Norse gods and blimp-like maidens disporting themselves in animal skins and burlap.

HOLLYWOOD, prepare to witness a live blockbuster. L.A. Opera will debut the first part of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, “Das Rheingold,” on Saturday, a moment long in coming to Los Angeles that was first ...

With a team of researchers and dedicated musicians, the conductor Kent Nagano is taking a historically informed performance approach to Wagner’s epic. By Joshua Barone Reporting from Amsterdam What ...

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 ...