Das Rheingold is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National ...

This majestic, epic piece of Wagner’s Ring Cycle makes a rare regional appearance. Das Rheingold requires a cast of more than 12 characters with specialized voices. Baritone Lester Lynch leads Das ...

The late conductor Herbert von Karajan established the Salzburg Easter Festival in 1967, in part to give his Berlin Philharmonic a chance to shine in this lovely little town. (The Vienna Philharmonic ...

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“Das Rheingold stands on its own as a compact, engaging story that is very theatrical,” said General Director Christina Scheppelmann. “Each scene propels forward into the next, making for a compelling ...

REVIEW Das Rheingold What: The production from the Palau de les Arts "Reina Sofia" in Valencia, Spain, is part of an opera-ballet film se ries being presented through August. When: 7p.m. Wednesday, ...

In all of Western culture there is nothing quite like Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen (“The Ring of the Nibelung”). Based on Wagner’s own retelling of stories from ancient German and ...

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He’s a god, in fact the ruler of the gods, but he’s got only one eye (he gave the other one up to gain wisdom in a trade that occurred before this opera starts). In Das Rheingold, he’s a rash young ...

For opera lovers who’ve been to Vegas and love Cirque du Soleil, Robert Lepage’s new 45-ton production of Wagner’s “Das Rheingold,” the first in the Ring of the Nibelung cycle, will not disappoint.

At the end of Opera North’s first performance of Das Rheingold, conductor Richard Farnes singled out the orchestra section by section (horns and Wagner tubas inevitably, rightly, first) for applause ...

The single act of Das Rheingold begins in the depths of the Rhine river. The entire Ring cycle finishes — four operas and more than 15 hours later — on the banks of the same river. As the orchestral ...