Conductor Juraj Valčuha ably coordinated and balanced the orchestra and the singers, while drawing out the dramatic effects ...

In a lifetime, we’re lucky to have a handful of musical experiences as sonically glorious and emotionally powerful as a March ...

This 1999 live recording captures the late conductor’s radical ear in bracing Mendelssohn, gossamer Wagner and a luminous Liebestod – from Violeta Urmana ...

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 Opera’s ...

The world had plenty of reasons to forget Richard Wagner’s four-opera cycle, “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” None of the four makes sense without the others—they premiered together in 1876—but the prospect ...

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 ...