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 ...

Call it “Siegfried” and chill, or maybe bingeable Wagner. The Atlanta Opera’s upcoming production of “Siegfried” is the third opera in Robert Wagner’s four-opera “Der Ring des Nibelungen” cycle. A ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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Richard Wagner — famous for his sweeping, all-encompassing artistry, infamous for his antisemitic, proto-Nazi ethos, now evoked by Vladimir Putin’s mercenary force — is back in town. He’s back in a ...

Siegfried is the third of the four music dramas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner. It premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on August 16, 1876, as ...