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 ...

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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, ...

Well, it’s finally arrived! The “it” in question is, of course, Richard Wagner’s monumental operatic myth, The Ring of the Nibelung. The four-part epic, being staged by Houston Grand Opera over a span ...

DAS REHEINGOLD first premiered in Munich in 1869, and the opera has been considered an important cultural phenomenon ever since. Sitting through the two and a half hour, intermission-less production, ...

At the center of Wagner’s “Ring des Nibelungen” is a quest for world domination that conjures everyday politics as much as Nordic mythology. Love and empathy are at odds with power and the law. Nature ...

Los Angeles Opera’s “Ring Cycle” clocks in at nearly 19 hours (with intermissions). That’s not only a lot of Richard Wagner’s music but plenty of love greed, incest and murder. Here, for the ...

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.