This majestic, epic piece of Wagner’s Ring Cycle makes a rare regional appearance. Das Rheingold requires a cast of more than 12 characters with specialized voices. Baritone Lester Lynch leads Das ...

German composer Richard Wagner’s epic “Das Rheingold” (The Gold from the Rhine) will be performed for the first time in Dayton Opera history Friday, April 14 and Sunday, April 16 at the Schuster ...

Get a first look at The Atlanta Opera's - "one of the most exciting opera companies in America" (Opera Wire) - production of Das Rheingold, the company's first production of any opera from Wagner's ...

A cursed ring, greed, and the fight for supreme power-sound familiar? The Lord of the Rings has famously drawn comparisons between its story and that of Das Rheingold. Fans of mythology and familiar ...

Opera lovers have long wondered about the fuss over Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings. Almost a century earlier, Richard Wagner wrote four epic operas in which he told the story of a golden ring that ...

Part of Wagner’s Ring cycle makes its delayed debut in Atlanta. When he took the job as general and artistic director of the Atlanta Opera in 2013, Tomer Zvulun knew what he was working toward. The ...

Three large video screens are suspended above the orchestra platform and the singers do much more than just enter, stand up straight and deliver. You forget that you're in Leeds on a Saturday night, ...

Gold so good you can taste it: Sean Panikkar's Loge observes Christopher Purves's Alberich exploiting the resources of Mother Earth, while Christopher Maltman's Wotan turns away in despair Yet the ...

Das Rheingold is the first of the four music dramas that constitute Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen or The Ring of the Nibelung. It was performed, as a single opera, at the National Theatre ...

An operatic saga of water-nymphs, giants and dwarves won’t be on a Fort Worth stage in 2018. Fort Worth Opera officials have announced that Richard Wagner’s “Das Rheingold,” a massive production ...

New production is blueprint for other regional companies. German composer Richard Wagner’s epic “Das Rheingold” (The Gold from the Rhine) will be performed for the first time in Dayton Opera history ...