Films and classroom resources on 19th Century German composer Richard Wagner, famous for his massive operas with epic stories.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dazzlingly lit paper sculptures by Frank Gehry added even more drama to Act 3 of Wagner's "Die Walküre" with Gustavo Dudamel ...

Richard Wagner called Die Walküre the “first evening” of the Ring of the Nibelung; he called Das Rheingold the prologue or Vorabend. Musically and dramatically, we are introduced to a radically new ...

In what is expected to be a Wagnerian event for the ages, soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera’s most famous act of filial ...

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It's not as if Wagner's opera Die Walküre lacks for drama. It's got a promiscuous god caught up in his own fraudulent schemes, an abusive husband, a backdrop of clan warfare, incestuous twins and a ...

"Die Walkuere," part two of the mighty "Das Rheingold" cycle, saw a complex drama unfold on a stark, menacing, almost empty stage that became a drama in itself, with the billows of Teutonic tragedy ...

Richard Wagner’s “The Ring of the Nibelung” has been probing the morality of power and possession for a century and a half. The composer designed a revolutionary theater for the four-night epic in the ...

The second part of Patrice Chérau's epoch-making Bayreuth Ring is a radical re-imagining of Die Walküre, unprecedented in its psychological penetration. This production of " Die Walkure," staged as ...