The physical impact of Wagner’s gargantuan orchestra operating at full stretch in plain sight is startling. The players are beaming. Miraculously, balance problems never seem to arise, despite the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. When indefatigable Los Angeles Opera music director James Conlon began ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Soloman Howard as Fafner and Andreas Schager as Siegfried in Barrie Kosky's Siegfried, The Royal Opera ©2026 Monika Rittershaus ...

The third work of Wagner’s cycle, Der Ring des Nibelungen (the Ring of Nibelung), returned to the Metropolitan Opera’s stage for its season premiere last Saturday. Soprano Deborah Voigt and tenor Jay ...

Those attending Saturday’s Metropolitan Opera HD Broadcast of “Siegfried,” featuring Jay Hunter Morris in his first Met performances of the title role (considered as one of the most challenging in the ...

It is not unusual to feel in the very depths of Der Ring des Nibelungen upon reaching Siegfried, but in Keith Warner’s staging for the Royal Opera, currently enjoying its place in the second revival ...

It is Brünnhilde herself who, at the end of The Valkyrie, names the son of Siegmund and Sieglinde, the long-awaited hero Siegfried. The second day of the Ring cycle shows him in his turbulent early ...

Michael Yeargan set the home of Mime and Siegfried as a small dilapidated trailer with seats at a table, shelves holding ordinary items, and a partial wall. Outside the trailer was a clothesline, an ...

Following performances of Das Rheingold in November 2022 and Die Walküre in May 2023, Regents Opera now presents the third opera in Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. While its predecessor Fulham Opera ...

Can a startling production with a mostly charismatic cast succeed when the lead performer doesn’t summon quite the vocal firepower required? Apparently so in the case of “Siegfried,” the third work in ...

This concert performance, part of the new opera group’s Ring Cycle, made the lack of any theatrical setting cease to matter with a strong cast and sure-footed conductor Michael Thorne Saffron Hall ...