If you can’t make it to Bayreuth this summer for the new Wagner “Ring” cycle, save your deutschmarks for Testament’s release of one of the great recordings of all time, rescued from its long slumber ...

“My Walküre turns out terribly beautiful,” Richard Wagner wrote to his friend, the composer Franz Liszt, on June 16, 1852. “I hope to submit to you the whole poem of the tetralogy before the end of ...

The new Naxos recording of Die Walküre marks tenor Stuart Skelton’s fourth commercial recording of the role of Siegmund, and is easily his most impressive. (Naxos) WAGNER Petra Lang, Heidi Melton, ...

Die Walküre is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National ...

Wednesday marked Richard Wagner’s 200th birthday, and Bayreuth’s big dude is bigger than ever, which is saying something. Record companies have been releasing and re-releasing Wagner recordings this ...

Surging, rhythmic string music punctuated by piercing horn sounds. Powerful, spine-tingling arias sung at hair-splitting volumes. And then there’s the scene, the one everyone knows even if they’ve ...

TUNDI Productions’ Wagner in Vermont Festival opened with a powerful production of “Die Walküre” Friday at Brattleboro’s Latchis Theatre, one that was not only musically excellent but dramatically ...

On Wednesday, Lyric Opera of Chicago will open a new production of “Die Walkure” (“The Valkyrie”), the second installment of David Pountney’s staging of Richard Wagner’s epic tetralogy “Der Ring des ...

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libretto by the composer. It is the second of the four operas that form Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The ...

SANTA FE – The Jemez and Sangre de Cristo mountains had vanished into the night sky by the time Ryan Speedo Green sang his first words as Wotan in Wagner’s “Die Walküre.” Still, their invisible ...

The second part of Patrice Chérau's epoch-making Bayreuth Ring is a radical re-imagining of Die Walküre, unprecedented in its psychological penetration. This production of " Die Walkure," staged as ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — The Jemez and Sangre de Cristo mountains had vanished into the night sky by the time Ryan Speedo Green sang his first words as Wotan in Wagner’s “Die Walküre.” Still, their invisible ...