Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche summed up the Ring cycle ahead of its premiere in 1876: ‘The tragic hero is a god who thirsts for power and who, after pursuing all paths to gain it, binds ...

Last season’s Atlanta Opera performance of Die Walküre, part of Richard Wagner’s Ring cycle. The company will conclude this cycle in its upcoming season with Twilight of the Gods. The Atlanta ...

Productions take very different approaches to the central symbol of this epic cycle, treating Wagner with daring freedom.

By Zachary Woolfe The Metropolitan Opera’s next “Ring” cycle is years away. But for local Wagnerians champing at the bit, the New York Philharmonic offered a teaser this weekend in the form ...

“It’s a historic moment as we complete the first “Ring” cycle in the history of the company — in the history of Atlanta and in the history of the South,” Zvulun said. “The four top ...

The Berlin State Opera has announced that it will present The Ring Cycle during the 2025-26 season. The company said that it would present Dmitri Tcherniakov’s production in two cycles at the ...

Aside from performance in the ring, voice is a major component needed to succeed in wrestling. One word and the crowd instantly knows who it is, cheers and waits in anticipation. Think of the best ...

He scorned fashionable ‘concepts’, staging his Ring Cycle with dragons: ‘It’s an old opera, of its time, and we mustn’t try to modernise it’ Otto Schenk, who has died aged 94 ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope has discovered an extremely rare Einstein ring. Einstein rings of light are produced when two galaxies are almost perfectly aligned ...