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 ...

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 ...

“Das Rheingold stands on its own as a compact, engaging story that is very theatrical,” said General Director Christina Scheppelmann. “Each scene propels forward into the next, making for a compelling ...

There are no supernatural women arriving on horseback to escort slain warriors to the afterlife. There's just a trio of mermaids, a couple of giants and a loveless dwarf, along with a bunch of gods, ...

He’s a god, in fact the ruler of the gods, but he’s got only one eye (he gave the other one up to gain wisdom in a trade that occurred before this opera starts). In Das Rheingold, he’s a rash young ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Dayton Performing Arts Alliance announced the cast for Dayton Opera’s production of Das Rheingold (The Rhein Gold),the first of the four operas of Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des ...

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 ...

Kirill Serebrennikov’s lavish production makes lazy use of African and Asian imagery while Kirill Petrenko elicits rigorous ...

Protopapas and Manich, who were responsible for the last major production of the quarantine-abbreviated 2020 season with Il Postino a year ago in March, are making a triumphant return to the Lobero ...

Tomasz Konieczny (Alberich) and Norbert Ernst (Loge) compare their pleather onesies in the Met’s Das Rheingold. Ken Howard / Met Opera To be fair, it’s a tricky question. The opera is not, strictly ...

The late conductor Herbert von Karajan established the Salzburg Easter Festival in 1967, in part to give his Berlin Philharmonic a chance to shine in this lovely little town. (The Vienna Philharmonic ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Dayton Opera welcomes a new show this week. Das Rheingold takes the stage this Friday at the Benjamin & Marian Schuster Performing Arts Center. The fully staged production is the ...