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 ...

“Der Ring des Nibelungen,” WWV 86, is a cycle of four German-language epic music dramas composed by Wagner over some 26 years, 1848-74. The works are based loosely on characters from German heroic ...

The Ring cycle, Richard Wagner’s four-part meditation on the human condition—told through the composer’s harmonization and embellishment of Norse myths about the creation and destruction of the ...

As Wotan in Patrice Chéreau’s neo-Marxist staging of the “Ring” cycle, he was part of a celebrated, polarizing moment in ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Richard Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelung” has had a cult following since it premiered at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany in 1876. That was attested to by the audiences at its Vermont premiere, ...

Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, a mythical tetralogy with an ambition to relate nothing less than the creation and destruction of the world, will turn 150 next year. Numerous productions young and old ...

Then General Music Director (GMD) of the Komische Oper Berlin Kirill Petrenko conducts in the Komische Oper Berlin during a rehearsal of the comedy "Der Rosenkavalier" by Richard Strauss. The ...

Smithsonian Institution, Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections, 600 Maryland Ave., S.W., Suite 2001, Washington ...