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His “Ring” has an organizational arm, called Wagner-Lesarten, or Wagner Readings — now called the Wagner Cycles — which has brought together minds from music, science and history to ...
The “Ring” operas’ association with the Nazis led stage directors after 1945, chiefly the composer’s grandson Wieland Wagner, to strip the operas of their Germanic elements. The urge was ...
I will mention some of the scenes which the Ring des Nibelungen offers in such abundance to the music for illustration or interpretation.
With music director Fabio Luisi conducting the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, singers took the stage during a rehearsal of Richard Wagner's "Das Rheingold" at the Meyerson Symphony Center on April 23 ...
On listening to Wagner's Ring Cycle for the first time as a classical-music amateur.
I’m a Wagner nut by disposition and regional roots -- my hometown Seattle Opera company was an early pioneer in contemporary Ring revivals.
The horned helmet — usually sitting on the head of a zaftig soprano — is the universal symbol of Richard Wagner’s “The Ring of the Nibelung.” But like Shakespearean tights and codpieces ...
DSO Music Director and Grammy winner Fabio Luisi (shown) will lead the performances of Wagner’s epic “Ring” cycle, kicking off this May at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center.(Sylvia ...
Dallas Symphony Orchestra to Perform the Complete Wagner's ‘Ring' Beginning May 2024 Music Director Fabio Luisi will conduct the four operas over two seasons in an opera-in-concert format.
Guest conductor James Gaffigan led the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in Maazel’s arrangement of Wagner’s “Der Ring ohne Worte” (“The Ring Without Words”) on Oct. 27 at Music Hall.
The conductor Philippe Jordan, 44, is relatively little known in the United States, but he’s at the crossroads of a major career in Europe.
Films and classroom resources on 19th Century German composer Richard Wagner, famous for his massive operas with epic stories.