Siegfried at Royal Opera: A spectacular triumph - 4/5 The latest part of Wagner’s Ring cycle at Royal Opera is remarkably ...

The third opera of Barrie Kosky’s Ring cycle again places the naked ancient earth goddess centre stage in a thoughtful and deft production that boasts an excellent cast and orchestral playing that cap ...

When the joyful energy at the final curtain - love briefly triumphant in the power-dominated world of Wagner's Ring - is as insanely high as it was at the end of a dizzying first act, that killer of a ...

In designer Rufus Didwiszus’s sets, Fafner’s lair is strangely buried in midwinter snow (why should Siegfried want to relax under the lime tree in a snowdrift?). Conversely, Brünnhilde’s rock is ...

The Austrian tenor is making his Royal Opera debut as Siegfried in the third instalment of of the Ring Cycle. He explains why operetta prepared him for the opera’s epic demands, and why Wagner’s louti ...

Sparks fly and flowers bloom in the penultimate instalment of Barrie Kosky’s Ring cycle for Covent Garden. In the previous two operas, Das Rheingold and Die Walküre, the Australian director presented ...

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 ...

Barry Kosky continues his Ring Cycle at the RBO with a Five-Star Siegfried In Siegfried, the third part of Der Ring des Nibelungen, Richard Wagner shifts the focus away from the troubled world of the ...

Barrie Kosky’s Siegfried at the Royal Opera House is the finest staging of the opera I’ve ever seen. It confirms his status as a theatrical director operating at the very top of his game, and marks – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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