Sommer, Sonne, Live-Spektakel: Die Bayerische Staatsoper hat Richard Wagners „Walküre" nicht nur im Nationaltheater ...

Tobias Kratzer’s new production of Wagner’s Die Walküre for the Bavarian State Opera includes one of the most devastating portraits of the god Wotan in any contemporary staging. Kratzer’s characters ...

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 ...

“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 ...

Any production of Wagner's Ring cycle needs some kind of coherence, so it is logical for a staging of Die Walküre to continue where the previous instalment, Das Rheingold, left off. In the case of the ...

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, ...

Conductors need a sense of timing. It is the least we ask of them, whatever else they might offer. Daniel Barenboim reaches levels of synchronicity beyond the musical, embracing world politics, global ...

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 ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The link between these Wagner bicentenary releases is not just the master of Bayreuth. It is Kaufmann, who sings a ...

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