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