It’s one magnificent fairy tale — told to some of the greatest music of all time. Richard Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelung” actually shares similarities with J.R. Tolkien’s epic fantasy novel “The Lord ...

Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, a mythical tetralogy with an ambition to relate nothing less than the creation and destruction of the world, will turn 150 next year. Numerous productions young and old ...

Richard Wagner’s “Ring of the Nibelung” has had a cult following since it premiered at the Bayreuth Festival in Germany in 1876. That was attested to by the audiences at its Vermont premiere, ...

Richard Wagner’s legendary “Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung),” with its four contiguous operas evoking a new musical language, power and force, has been presented nearly annually at ...

It’s one of the great epics of Western civilization, a four-part drama of family dysfunction and betrayal, of gods and mortals, giants and dwarfs, sacrifice and ultimate cleansing and renewal by fire ...

The Ring cycle, Richard Wagner’s four-part meditation on the human condition—told through the composer’s harmonization and embellishment of Norse myths about the creation and destruction of the ...

It may be the ultimate test of an opera company: 15 hours of music divided among four operas to be done within a week, requiring a sizable cast of big-voice singers, and a conductor and orchestra of ...

With Siegfried, staged in Calixto Bieito’s new production, the Paris Opera presents the third part of Richard Wagner’s ...

The young blacksmith Siegfried, who, not knowing that he is heir to a conquered kingdom, becomes popular with the Burgunds by slaying their bane, the dragon Fafnir. When the reward seems to be a huge ...

Prince Siegfried was 4 years old when Saxons attacked the Kingdom of Xanten and murdered his parents. The swordsmith Eyvind becomes his surrogate father. One night, 15 years later, a meteor falls from ...

Where: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, downtown L.A. When: Saturday-June 26. See https://www.laoperaring.com for cycles and times. Tickets: $200 to $1,100 for the four-opera “Ring” Cycle; $50 to $275 for ...