As Wotan in Patrice Chéreau’s neo-Marxist staging of the “Ring” cycle, he was part of a celebrated, polarizing moment in opera history. Donald McIntyre as Wotan and Gwyneth Jones as Brünnhilde in ...

Siegfried by Richard Wagner comes to Opéra Bastille next year. As part of the RING Festival 2026, performances will run from 10 to 19 November 2026. With Siegfried, staged in Calixto Bieito’s new ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Wagner College Opera will present “Echoes Between the Lines” next month, a program featuring scenes from Mozart, Handel, Verdi, Puccini, Berlioz, Sondheim, Lehár and Bernstein.

It’s official — San Francisco Opera is bringing back The Ring. Richard Wagner’s monumental four-part, 15-hour opera cycle will return to the War Memorial Opera House in June 2028. Directed by ...

Ever since Music Director Eun Sun Kim and the San Francisco Opera first announced a multiyear plan for her to conduct one of Wagner's works in each season, it's been understood that the project would ...

Matthew Ozawa had already directed Beethoven’s “Fidelio” and Gluck’s “Orpheus and Eurydice” for San Francisco Opera when the company's director asked him in early 2023 to direct Wagner’s “Parsifal.” ...

It begins in the old world. A fog rolls in. Statues of saints on the bridge over the Moldau have their backs to us. Facing front is a young man in a straitjacket, planning his escape. Heralding his ...

Tacoma Opera is betting big on Wagner. At the end of composer Richard Wagner’s “Das Rheingold,” which the company will present in two performances at the Pantages Theater Oct. 3 and 5, the gods cross ...

Staging any opera is rarely a modest undertaking, but if that opera happens to be by Richard Wagner, “modest” must go out the window. Typically, one needs a large theater, an outsized orchestra, and ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...