Götterdämmerung or Twilight of the Gods), is the last in Richard Wagner's cycle of four music dramas titled Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung, or The Ring for short). It received its ...

The doomed gods and mortals of ”Der Ring des Nibelungen” slouched to their wonted destinies at the uncomfortable but acoustically marvelous Festspielhaus here last week, as the new Harry Kupfer-Daniel ...

BAYREUTH, Germany (Reuters) - Former German infantryman Hans Himsel lived through scenes in 1944 at the Bayreuth opera house worthy of the finale of Richard Wagner's "Gotterdammerung" when Valhalla ...

In the Bavarian village of Bayreuth there lies dying of old age the widow of the late great Wilhelm Richard Wagner. Among the neighbors an air of secrecy pervades regarding her condition. She is ...

From the astounding prelude — 136 measures of orchestral music awash in E-flat major evoking the river Rhine– to the profound close, when that river overflows and Valhalla burns up, Wagner’s “Ring of ...

Lise Lindstrom (as Brünnhilde) and Daniel Johansson (Siegfried) embraced as music director Fabio Luisi conducted the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Richard Wagner's "Siegfried" at the Meyerson Symphony ...

Richard Wagner had a special hall built to his exact specifications for the performance of his operas. The industrial town where it was built, Bayreuth, is now known for little other than productions ...

Alex Ross, the music critic for the New Yorker magazine, has written a wonderful if daunting new book. “Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music” is a history of everything Wagnerian since ...