Last year, he startled us with Das Rheingold, the first part of Wagner's epic Ring saga, by upgrading the importance of Erda, ...

The heroes gathered by the Valkyries in their infamous Ride have also been reduced ... Sieglinde has long been seen as an extraordinarily acute depiction by Wagner of an abuse victim, but her ...

That’s certainly what this Walküre suggests. Earth-goddess Erda (actress Illona Linthwaite) – our silent, ever-present guide, ...

Conductor Pietari Inkinen in a rehearsal with Chinese singers for the National Centre for the Performing Arts production of Richard Wagner's The Valkyrie, which will be staged from Tuesday to ...

The heroes gathered by the Valkyries in their infamous Ride have ... Sieglinde has long been seen as an extraordinarily acute depiction by Wagner of an abuse victim, but her long-lost twin brother ...

The Brünnhilde, the valkyrie of the title, rides down to mess with the situationship ... She doesn’t go all monk-ish — there’s the odd glass of wine, although with Wagner to contend to, she has to be ...

One major advantage of unveiling a production of Wagner’s Ring cycle year by year over four years ... destroyed prepares the way for a shocking rethinking of the Ride of the Valkyries at the start of ...