Films and classroom resources on 19th Century German composer Richard Wagner, famous for his massive operas with epic stories.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dazzlingly lit paper sculptures by Frank Gehry added even more drama to Act 3 of Wagner's "Die Walküre" with Gustavo Dudamel ...

"Die Walkuere," part two of the mighty "Das Rheingold" cycle, saw a complex drama unfold on a stark, menacing, almost empty stage that became a drama in itself, with the billows of Teutonic tragedy ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Royal Opera's Die Walküre - Alastair Muir One major advantage of unveiling a production of Wagner's Ring cycle year by year ...

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 works that form Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The ...

Halloween came early to the Southland via the Kirov Opera production of Wagner's tetralogy, "Der Ring des Nibelungen," with "Das Rheingold" and "Die Walkure" heard over the weekend and "Siegfried" and ...

Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rheingold the prologue or Vorabend. Musically and dramatically, we are introduced to a radically new ...

Richard Wagner’s “The Ring of the Nibelung” has been probing the morality of power and possession for a century and a half. The composer designed a revolutionary theater for the four-night epic in the ...