Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto was an instant classic from the moment that lyrical first phrase was first intoned on March 13, 1845, by Ferdinand David. On Saturday, May 18, 23-year-old violinist ...

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Atlanta Opera’s “Die Walküre,” which bows at Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center on April 27, is a notable event for multiple reasons. Not only is this the first time the work has been produced in the ...

This week in the magazine, Alex Ross writes about Richard Wagner's "Ring," focussing in on ten haunting measures from Act II of "Die Walküre," the second opera of the four-part cycle. Here Ross ...

Lyric Opera of Chicago’s production of Richard Wagner’s “Die Walkure” invites audiences to visit a netherworld of fantasy, adventure and intrigue. Even for the ears of an audience member not familiar ...

Say "opera" to many people and the first image that comes to mind will be a formidable blond woman, wearing a winged helmet, carrying a spear and singing her lungs out. That would be Brünnhilde - ...

Die Walküre (The Valkyrie) is an opera in three acts by Richard Wagner with a German libretto by the composer. It is the second of the four operas that form Wagner's cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen (The ...

Soprano Heidi Melton, left, as Brünnhilde and mezzo-soprano Michelle DeYoung as Sieglinde in a Dallas Symphony Orchestra concert performance of Richard Wagner's Die Walküre, led by music director Jaap ...

Die Walküre is the second of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen, (English: The Ring of the Nibelung). It was performed, as a single opera, at the National ...

Robert Lepage's staging of "Die Walkure" continues to fulfill the enormous promise of last autumn's "Das Rheingold," the first in Richard Wagner's four-part "Ring of the Nibelung." “Rheingold,” with ...

Surging, rhythmic string music punctuated by piercing horn sounds. Powerful, spine-tingling arias sung at hair-splitting volumes. And then there’s the scene, the one everyone knows even if they’ve ...

"Die Walkuere," part two of the mighty "Das Rheingold" cycle, saw a complex drama unfold on a stark, menacing, almost empty stage that became a drama in itself, with the billows of Teutonic tragedy ...