Volante Opera Productions has announced that Paul Corfield Godfrey’s operatic adaptation of The Lord of the Rings is now available for pre-order. Titled Musical Chapters from The Lord of the Rings: ...

It is one of the pinnacle roles in all of opera: Wotan, king of the gods in Wagner’s epic “Ring.” It’s a nearly fathomless part that demands a beautiful voice, power, subtle acting, keen intelligence ...

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 ...

Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung, a mythical tetralogy with an ambition to relate nothing less than the creation and destruction of the world, will turn 150 next year. Numerous productions young and old ...

Productions take very different approaches to the central symbol of this epic cycle, treating Wagner with daring freedom. By Zachary Woolfe Is it oil? Is it youth? Is it tactile? Invisible? For Wagner ...