It’s a Friday night and a frisson of anticipation ripples through the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall. A bumper crowd has turned out to witness the endurance test that is about to unfold for the ...

A lustrous scion of fin-de-siècle Vienna, she was born Alma Maria Schindler, the daughter of the operetta singer Anna Bergen ...

In their groundbreaking Der Ring des Nibelungen, Regents Opera conductor Ben Woodward and his director Caroline Staunton are bringing Wagner into ... Woodward and Valkyries Photo Credit: Steve ...

Wagner’s 15-hour cycle is full of grandeur and emotion, but though the performance on Sunday rose to clanging climaxes, it barely suggested the operas ... “Ride of the Valkyries” and ...

the brass section seizing every opportunity to shine in an opera that offers them some of their finest moments. The cast was stellar. Camilla Nylund, one of today’s most celebrated Brünnhildes, ...

This new show focuses on Kiefer’s early years, revealing how one the most fascinating artists alive found his unique, ...

Her Redesdale grandfather suggested Valkyrie after the Norse war-maidens from his friend Wagner’s Ring Cycle operas. Remarkably, Mitford was conceived in the town of Swastika, Ontario ...

For everybody else, the printed program went to great lengths, with capsule synopses of the four operas ... with Wagner tubas and trombones. Moments familiar from concert excerpts surfaced from time ...

Happy Families… A new opera by English composer Mark-Anthony Turnage is always a cause for excitement amongst the critical ...

Reserve your seat in advance, as Lyric Opera OC always packs the house ... s “Don Giovanni,” Verdi’s “La Traviata,” and “Aida,” and Wagner’s “The Valkyrie.” Classes are on six Fridays, Jan. 10 to Feb.

Provoking boos 25 years ago for radical stagings saturated with sex and violence, Calixto Bieito at age 61 has transformed ...

For more than seven decades, the Metropolitan Opera Radio Broadcasts have brought opera into millions of homes, playing a vital and unparalleled role in the development and appreciation of opera in ...