There was a moment in the opening performance of Los Angeles Opera’s new production of “Götterdämmerung” Saturday afternoon which I was sure was a mistake. On a scrim at the back of the stage, a ...

Mounting Wagner’s massive Ring cycle in a venue that has been described as “the spiritual home of British boxing” takes some imagination. But Regents Opera has never been short of either imagination ...

Washington National Opera (WNO), under the leadership of General Director Plácido Domingo, presents two concert performances of Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung, November 7 and 15 at the Kennedy ...

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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The End. Saturday afternoon, a bit before twilight, “Götterdämmerung” ...

The tragedy of warrior-maiden Brünnhilde and her beloved hero Siegfried unfolds amidst the utter greed and evil machinations of revenge-driven Alberich and his malevolent son Hagen. Love triumphs as ...

NEW YORK - Once a warrior, now powerful only in self-sacrifice, a noble, fearless woman has leaped onto a funeral pyre. The man she loves, the gods and the world she has known have all been set ablaze ...

The epic journey of gods, mortals and giants comes to a thunderous close. Houston Grand Opera concludes its historic four-part Ring cycle with Götterdämmerung, (Twilight of the Gods), the final opera ...

Götterdämmerung is an opera by Richard Wagner. It is the fourth and last of the cycle of operas that together tell a story called Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung). The story ...

Such an approach pays huge dividends – the singers never have to compete with excessive or unsuitable directorial demands, and you get to hear, and see, absolutely everything. I can rarely recall ever ...

It’s always a little disorienting to emerge from a theater after a performance of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung and see the real world still extant after the opera’s musical depiction of the “Twilight of ...