It is not unusual to feel in the very depths of Der Ring des Nibelungen upon reaching Siegfried, but in Keith Warner’s staging for the Royal Opera, currently enjoying its place in the second revival ...

Call it “Siegfried” and chill, or maybe bingeable Wagner. The Atlanta Opera’s upcoming production of “Siegfried” is the third opera in Robert Wagner’s four-opera “Der Ring des Nibelungen” cycle. A ...

It is Brünnhilde herself who, at the end of The Valkyrie, names the son of Siegmund and Sieglinde, the long-awaited hero Siegfried. The second day of the Ring cycle shows him in his turbulent early ...

Following performances of Das Rheingold in November 2022 and Die Walküre in May 2023, Regents Opera now presents the third opera in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. While its predecessor Fulham Opera ...

Longborough Festival Opera’s Ring cycle continues with an absorbing production The third opera of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen has at its heart a struggle between Wotan, the leader of the gods, ...

The World Premiere of SIEGFRIED AND ROY: THE UNAUTHORISED OPERA showcases fabulous Australian talent as it tells the brilliant and bizarre story of the famous magicians. Luke Di Somma (Composer, ...

Ambition, humour and high musical standards fuel stripped-back Wagner; ENO keeps its dystopian focus; and a less than perfect revival does nothing to diminish the genius of Puccini As if released from ...

Richard Wagner — famous for his sweeping, all-encompassing artistry, infamous for his antisemitic, proto-Nazi ethos, now evoked by Vladimir Putin’s mercenary force — is back in town. He’s back in a ...

SEEING Siegfried, or any other Wagner music drama, in a small theatre does not necessarily diminish its effect. Small, in operatic terms, is not the opposite of big, but something quite different.

“I was — we say blauaugig, blue-eyed — too innocent or naive to think about the risk I took,” he says, reflecting on the potential shredding of his voice. “My career could have ended in that year but ...