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 ...

This 2017 photo shows Yuval Sharon, who will direct the Metropolitan Opera's next staging of Wagner's Ring Cycle starring Lise Davidsen as Brnnhilde and conducted by music director Yannick Nzet-Sguin.

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, ...

"I have been proud in this last season many times," says Fabio Luisi, starting his fifth season as the DSO's music director. "It shows how important it is to have tours. It makes the musicians really ...

Fabio Luisi wanted his Ring Cycle to be heard and not seen. Wagner’s four-opera epic “Der Ring des Nibelungen,” approaching the 150th anniversary of its premiere in 1876, has been reinterpreted and ...

The Ring - An Orchestral Adventure is a symphonic narrative of just over an hour The length and heaviness of Wagner operas have long been the stuff of legend and the butt of jokes. Who can forget ...

Are you a Wagner fan? If so, you were likely excited by the Washington National Opera's presentation of The Ring of the Nibelungen, a cycle of four operas by Richard Wagner, in May 2016. Perhaps you ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This 2017 photo shows Yuval Sharon, who will direct the Metropolitan Opera's next staging of Wagner's Ring Cycle starring Lise ...