Audience members who've been following the evolution of the Metropolitan Opera's new "Ring" production in local movie theaters could experience catharsis Saturday, when "The Met: Live in HD" telecasts ...

The Metropolitan opera, in its final weeks before the end of the season, revived the last of Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle, Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods) on April 23. With gorgeous, warm and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wagner: Gotterdammerung - Steve Gregson Mounting Wagner’s massive Ring cycle in a venue that has been described as “the spiritual ...

In May of 1849 the uprisings in Dresden were put down. Wanted by the police for his political activity, Wagner fled, eventually settling in Switzerland. He produced a number of prose works over the ...

In Das Rheingold, local gymnasts portrayed gold. Now Houston Grand Opera presents five performances of Götterdämmerung (Twilight of the Gods), the final part of Wagner's Ring Cycle, between April 22 ...

Although Tolkien himself disagreed, certain scholars have pointed out many similarities between Wagner's Ring Cycle and J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy. Credit: Photo by Lynn Lane The end ...