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 ...
These are not normal times. Why should we expect a normal Wagner production? This certainly won’t be the review that takes a one-plank platform criticizing the Lyric Opera for producing the work of a ...
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 ...
More in fact than any of the Ring operas, Siegfried is a work of flashbacks. Wagner originally devised it because friends told him Siegfrieds Tod (alias Götterdämmerung) would be incomprehensible ...
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 ...
This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The title hero of Richard Wagner’s ‘Siegfried’ is often described as a ...
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 ...